When Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997, Hong Kong retained the common law through a reception statute in Chapter I, Article 8 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong:

When war came to China in 1937, the firm suffered heavily both in Hong Kong and in mainland China.

When the Japanese occupied Nanjing and Wuhan, the three sisters moved to Hong Kong.

When Siam adopted a gold exchange standard in 1908, this left only China and Hong Kong on the silver standard.

When young he won the Hong Kong city boxing championship.

" When comparing the timetables of White and Asian families across the world, it can be concluded that in general, White parents and adolescents tend to expect autonomy earlier than their Asian counterparts, disregarding whether the families lived in America, Australia, or Hong Kong.

When Hong Kong was under British rule, bills passed by the Legislative Council were required constitutionally to have the royal assent signified by the Governor.

When offers for film roles became limited for his father, he and his family moved back to Hong Kong in 1971.

When the French government failed to respond positively, Mayréna approached the British in Hong Kong.

When the film opened in Hong Kong it received mixed reviews.

When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949 in mainland China, law enforcement became stricter and tough governmental crackdown on criminal organizations forced the triads to migrate to Hong Kong, then a British colony, and other cities around the world.

When Tōjō spoke on the plan to the House of Peers he was vague about the long-term prospects, but insinuated that the Philippines and Burma might be allowed independence, although vital territories such as Hong Kong would remain under Japanese rule.

When Hong Kong was a British colony the Governor was ex officio Commander-in-Chief of British Forces Overseas Hong Kong.

When the communists took power in China, the agency represented the Chinese Communist Party in countries and territories with which it had no diplomatic representation, such as Hong Kong.

When the company faced financial difficulties, it was split into two companies, one in Japan and with the overseas part headquartered in Hong Kong, in a bid to survive.

When Hong Taiji declared the new dynasty of Qing in 1636, Korea did not accept it even though the Empire announced a war.

When he was only a few months old, his family emigrated to Hong Kong, where they lived first in Yuen Long and then 5 years later in Shatin.

When the Tung Chung Line was constructed, it became necessary to build an interchange so that passengers did not have to go to Hong Kong Island to change lines.

When Hong Kong was established as a free trading port in 1841, there was no local currency in everyday circulation.

When Hero opened in Hong Kong in December 2002, it grossed a massive HK $ 15, 471, 348 in its first week.

When prominent international figures from the worlds of commerce, politics or entertainment visit Hong Kong, many choose to address the FCC's speaker lunches as the best means of reaching their desired audience-both directly and through media coverage of the events.

When Sir Edward Youde died in Beijing on 5 December 1986, Wilson replaced him to become the Governor of Hong Kong in 1987.

When Godzilla tries to kill Kong with his atomic breath, an electrical storm arrives and revives Kong, giving him the power of an electric grasp.

When John Beck sold the King Kong vs. Prometheus script to Toho ( which became King Kong vs. Godzilla ), he was given exclusive rights to produce a version of the film for release in non-Asian territories.

After his international success with Godzilla in 1954, he said, " When I worked for Nikkatsu Studios, King Kong came to Kyoto and I never forgot that movie.

When Kong Le retreated from Vientiane, he took with him two usable C-47s and two L-20 Beavers from Aviation Laotienne and formed the Neutralist Laotian Air Force.

When writing the storyline, Burton and Thompson were influenced by Universal Horror films, such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), Frankenstein ( 1931 ), Creature from the Black Lagoon ( 1954 ), as well as King Kong ( 1933 ) and various fairy tales.

When he died in 1899 he was the last surviving cardinal who was not at least ordained a priest.

: Your eyes have seen my unformed substance ; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

When Cruciger returned to Wittenberg in 1529, Major was appointed rector of the Johannisschule in Magdeburg, but in 1537 he became court preacher at Wittenberg and was ordained by Martin Luther.

When there is a larger number of ordained ministers than ruling elders, additional ruling elders are appointed to redress the imbalance.

When the Church was still confined to Jerusalem, he was chosen by the whole multitude of the disciples to be one of the first seven deacons, and he was ordained by the apostles, c. AD 33.

When he was 20 years old, in about 1411, he received the name Gendun Drubpa upon taking the vows of a fully ordained monk, or Gelong, from the abbot of Narthang Monastery.

When Suzuki turned 13, on May 18, 1917, So-on ordained him as a novice monk ( unsui ).

When Meletius was appointed bishop of Antioch in 361 he ordained Flavian to the priesthood, and on the death of Meletius in 381 Flavian was chosen to succeed him.

When the First Council of Constantinople met in 381, Maximus's claim to the see of Constantinople was unanimously rejected, the last of its original four canons decreeing " that he neither was nor is a bishop, nor are they who have been ordained by him in any rank of the clergy ".

When Shinran was nine ( 1181 ) he was sent by his uncle to Mount Hiei, where he was ordained as a Tendai monk.

When Ezana came of age, Edesius returned to Tyre, where he stayed and was ordained a priest.

When given the gift of new vestments, he would often use them to fit the newest ordained priest in the diocese.

When Calandio, the orthodox patriarch of Antioch, was expelled by the Miaphysite Peter the Fuller in 485, Philoxenus was ordained bishop of Mabbug ( Barhebraeus, Chron.

When peace came, Tubby was sent to England to find premises for a Test School for soldiers who wished to be ordained ( eventually settling on the old Knutsford jail ).

When Josaphat reached the diaconate, regular services and labor for the Church had already been begun ; the number of novices steadily increased, and under Rutski — who had meanwhile been ordained priest — there began the regeneration of Eastern Catholic religious life among the Ruthenians ( Belarusians and Ukrainians ).

When of age, he entered the English College, Douai ( in modern-day northern France ) in 1641, and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1645.

When seventeen years old, Cutler graduated from Harvard College, and on January 11, 1709 / 10, having come from Massachusetts to Connecticut with the recommendation of being " one of the best preachers both colonies afforded ", he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Stratford.

When the community declined, Anandabodhi returned to Canada ; he was subsequently ordained in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition and enthroned as Namgyal Rinpoche by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa.

When she was 10 years old, her father renounced Catholicism and became an ordained minister in the Pentecostal Church of the Word.

When Olaus Laurentii was elected by the Chapter to become Archbishop of Uppsala and Sweden, the Swedish King Eric of Pomerania was displeased because he was not consulted and therefor decided that Arnold of Bergen should become archbishop in 1433 while Olaus Laurentii was in Rome to be ordained.

When Jedediah M. Grant died in 1856, Wells was ordained an apostle of the LDS Church and set apart as Second Counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of the church.

When he returned in 1120 he became a clerk in the household of Robert Bloet, Bishop of Lincoln, started a school for boys and girls ( the existing primary school at Sempringham is still named after him ) and was finally ordained by Robert's successor, Alexander.

When Owen's own anonymous review of the Origin appeared in the April Edinburgh Review he praised himself and his own axiom of the continuous operation of the ordained becoming of living things, and showed his anger at what he saw as Darwin's caricature of the creationist position and ignoring Owen's pre-eminence.

When the Grand Master of the Military Order of the Knights of Malta, the head of state of their sovereign territorial state comprising the island of Malta until 1797, who had already been made a Reichsfürst ( i. e., prince of the Holy Roman Empire ) in 1607, became ( in terms of honorary order of precedence, not in the actual church hierarchy of ordained ministers ) the most senior official after the most junior member of the Cardinals in 1630, he was also awarded the hybrid style His Most Eminent Highness, to recognize his status as a type of prince of the Church.