Pre-release publicity for Infernal Affairs focused on its star-studded cast ( Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Kelly Chen and Sammi Cheng ), but it later received critical acclaim for its original plot and its concise and swift storytelling style.

Based on the account of the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsang, who visited in AD 644, it seems that in later times Kapisa was part of a kingdom ruled by a Buddhist kshatriya king holding sway over ten neighboring states, including Lampaka, Nagarahara, Gandhara, and Banu.

They accompanied him some way on his march against Persia, passing through Talas or Turkestan in the Syr Daria valley, where Hsuan Tsang, on his way from China to India sixty years later, met with another of Dizabul's successors.

In the interim, Tsang and later Henry Tang served as acting Chief Executives in accordance with the Basic Law.

The Chief Executive Donald Tsang later visited the site to inspect the rubble.

He is said to have been " one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya ," and according to the evidence of Hsuan Tsang, this is the Chandragupta Vikramaditya ( Chandragupta II ) that flourished about AD 375.

Donald Tsang announced that the NPC said it planned to allow the 2017 Chief Executive elections and the 2020 Legislative Council elections to take place by universal suffrage.

President Tsang agreed and said that he considered ending debate even without Wong's suggestion because he would not allow debate to go on endlessly.

" According to the Australian he was heard to have said that " Basically, we get it for nothing ," Mr Tsang says.

Art critic Lau Kin-wai said Tsang spent his final days at an elderly home surrounded by family members.

" According to The Australian he was heard to have said that " Basically, we get it for nothing ," Mr Tsang says.

Councel for the prosecution, Michael King, SC stated that " Cr Tsang had " no hesitation " in pocketing the wad of cash and bribes, he said, " although he was careful as he did so to look around to see whether the payment had been observed by anyone else ".

# Noropotir Dhap ( Vashu Bihara ), a group of monasteries 1km north-west of Totaram Ponditer Dhap ( said to be the place where Po-shi-po Bihara mentioned by Xuanzang ( Hieun Tsang ) was located ).

In a reply to the request made to delay the light show, Donald Tsang said that the campaign could " give adverse publicity to Hong Kong as an international metropolis and a major tourist attraction.

In Hong Kong, Tsang Tsou Choi was known as the King of Kowloon for his calligraphy graffiti over many years, in which he claimed ownership of the area.

Tsang ordered a committee, of which Yue was to be a member, to be set up to perform a sweeping review of the system to process applications for former civil servants.

The first cloture in Hong Kong was introduced in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong on 17 May 2012, by Tsang Yok-sing ( President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong ), to abruptly halt filibuster during debate at the Committee of the Whole stage of the Legislative Council ( Amendment ) Bill 2012.

Gendun Drup was born in a cowshed in Gyurmey Rupa, near Sakya in the Tsang region of central Tibet, the son of Gonpo Dorjee and Jomo Namkha Kyi, nomadic tribespeople.

It was in the hands of viceroys such as the Sakyas, the prince of Tsang, and the Mongolian Khan.

Gyaltsab Je () ( 1364 – 1432 ) or more elaborately, Gyaltsab Dharma Rinchen was born in the Tsang province of central Tibet.

* ( 7 July 2003 )-Donald Tsang announced that there was no specific timetable for introducing the bill.

During the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots, the then Form 6 pupil Tsang Tak-sing was expelled from the school and prosecuted for distributing leaflets promoting Communism and Public order crime.

Tsang was sentenced to two years in prison as a result.

Huc's intention was to travel from China to Lhasa, and from there to India ( much as Hsuan Tsang had travelled via Tashkent, Samarkand and Taxila much earlier, in the 7th century ).

Donald Tsang Yam-kuen </ small > ( born 7 October 1944 ) was the second Chief Executive and President of the Executive Council of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012.

Tsang began his civil service career in 1967, occupying various positions in finance and trade in the Hong Kong Civil Service, and was appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1995, becoming the first ethnic Chinese to hold the position under British administration.

Tsang was made a Knight of the British Empire in June 1997 hours before the handover and is entitled to the style " Sir Donald Tsang " though he did not use either the title " Sir " or the postnominals " KBE " in his capacity as a Hong Kong government official.

Donald Tsang was born in Hong Kong on 7 October 1944, during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.

His father was an officer of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force and Tsang is the eldest of the five sons and one daughter.

Built in the 1840s, it was constructed in 1848 as a stronghold for the Tsang Clan.

The construction of Shan Ha Wai was begun in 1848 by the wealthy granite merchant and stonemason Tsang Koon-Man as a stronghold for the Tsang clan, and took around 20 years to complete.

Also, Donald Tsang, the Chief Secretary of the HKSAR Government, was angry with a news story in which his old chef was interviewed.

In fulfilling his election platform, then Chief Executive Sir Donald Tsang, appointed eight new non-official members the day after the policy address was delivered on 12 October 2005.

Tsang was born in Guangzhou, China.

Tsang was previously elected into the Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon West constituency from 2004-2008.

The next day, Fei Hung goes to the market to buy some fish from Fishmonger Tsang ( Felix Wong ) and snakes from Fun ( Hoh Wing Fong ).

When in A. D. 640 the Chinese traveller Hsuan Tsang visited Kanchi ( Conjevaram ), the capital of the Pallava king, he learned that the kingdom of Chola ( Chu-li-ya ) embraced but a small territory, wild, and inhabited by a scanty and fierce population ; in the Pandya kingdom ( Malakuta ), which was under Pallava suzerainty, literature was dead, Buddhism all but extinct, while Hinduism and the naked Jain saints divided the religious allegiance of the people, and the pearl fisheries continued to flourish.

An attempt had been made in the 18th century during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor to split Tibet by offering the Panchen Lama dominion over Tsang, but the expansive offer was declined, the Panchen Lama only accepting a small portion of the offered territory.

Tsang is cousin of Daniel Heung, who resigned as chairman of the Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education for being at the centre of a scandal when the Oriental Daily News revealed on 7 August that he had transformed a warehouse site in Shatin ( rented from the government in 1983 ) into a private residence.

Tsang joined the Hong Kong Civil Service in January 1967, and held positions in many different government departments, ranging from finance, trade to policies relating to the transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China.

Legco member Cheung Man Kwong told RTHK Radio 1's Openline Openview phone-in program that he along with eight other Democratic camp members had already written to Legco's Education Committee chairman Tsang Yok-sing, urging him to convene an emergency meeting to investigate these allegations of government interference in the running of IEd.

When Tsang was elected he was brought before the central government for approval and inauguration.

He remains the best-paid head of government in the world, his proposed annual pay package exceeding that of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Donald Tsang, the political leader with the second-highest salary in the world ( around US $ 550, 000 ), by about three times ; and that of the President of the United States Barack Obama (£ 256, 000, or about US $ 400, 000 ) by over four times.

His views on government policies were often at odds with those of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, also a Catholic.

In 1998 and 1999 Donald Tsang representing the HK government met with Richard Li, chairman of Pacific Century Group regarding the Cyberport construction project.

( Cyberport struggled to attract tenants, was becoming unpopular with Dot-com bubble problem ) Democratic Party member Lee Wing-tat demanded that records of meetings between Donald Tsang and Richard Li should be revealed to show PCG was not colluded with the government.