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	Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) in Hong Kong, founded 1949 is a club for the media, business and diplomatic community.
		The FCC has a main bar, main dining room, Bert's, the club's new cellar jazz bar and a gym with sauna, steam room and whirl pool.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_Correspondents'_Club,_Hong_Kong (225 words)

	Foreign Correspondents' Club Hong Kong - The Correspondent - April-May 04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The number of mainstream foreign correspondents is declining and the future of foreign correspondence is under threat.
		In Shanghai we assumed the economic crisis was to blame for the stagnation in the number of foreign correspondents in the rapidly expanding city.
		The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong experienced a drop in the number of correspondent members from over 400 in the 1997 handover year to 170 in the spring of 2003.
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	Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) in Hong Kong, founded 1949, is Asia's premier meeting place for the media, business and diplomatic community.
		The club's membership is drawn from a broad cross section of walks of life and includes many of Hong Kong's best known and most interesting people.
		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 rnedia coverage of the events.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/f/fo/foreign_correspondents__club__hong_kong.html (275 words)

	Reuters: Britain urges Hong Kong to protect rights and freedom \| Clearharmony - Falundafa in Europe
		HONG KONG (Reuters) - Britain has urged the government of Hong Kong to protect basic rights and freedoms as the former British colony prepares to pass an anti-subversion law demanded by the Chinese government.
		China, concerned that Hong Kong could be used as a base from which to subvert the mainland, is pushing Hong Kong to enact the anti-subversion legislation, but human rights groups fear it could be used against anyone who criticises China or its leaders.
		Hong Kong is required to pass some form of anti-subversion law under its constitution, which was agreed between Britain and China before the territory reverted to Chinese rule.
	www.clearharmony.net /articles/200211/8337p.html (496 words)

	Hong Kong dollar -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Hong Kong dollar has been pegged to the (The basic unit of money in the United States) United States dollar since October 17, 1983 at HK$7.80 per U.S. dollar through the currency board system.
		The resources for this backing are kept in Hong Kong's Exchange Fund, which is among the largest official reserves in the world.
		The Hong Kong dollar was allowed to float freely in November 1974 until it was repegged in October 1983.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ho/Hong_Kong_dollar.htm (504 words)

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		One of the priorities for the Hong Kong Police in recent years has been to combat serious and violent crimes and in particular those which involve the use of genuine firearms.
		If we are looking to find evidence of a deteriorating crime situation in Hong Kong and a correlation between it and the rapid moves towards greater integration with the Mainland after 1997, the cold facts and figures point to a dramatically different picture.
		Hong Kong as a community enjoyed stability and safe streets for the years running up to 1997, as it does to an even greater extent now as we move beyond this historical marker.
	www.info.gov.hk /gia/general/200307/31/0731000.htm (2021 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Hong Kong Catholic Leader Warns Of Beijing-Style Repression
		Under a security law introduced in the Hong Kong legislature last week, the authorities may outlaw locally based groups that are "subordinate" to organizations banned on the mainland.
		The law is controversial because when Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997, it did so under an agreement that it would retain its Western-style freedoms and way of life without interference from Beijing for 50 years.
		While Catholics worship freely in Hong Kong, China does not tolerate the Roman Catholic Church and has set up a "Patriotic" Catholic association loyal to the state rather than to the Vatican.
	www.learnathome.com /news/1186022.html (355 words)

	Independent Catholic News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bishop Joseph Zen, said a section of the proposed new anti subversion law could be used to suppress Hong Kong groups considered 'subordinate' to organizations banned in the mainland, because they are seen as a threat to national security.
		He said he feared the law could be used against Hong Kong's Roman Catholic church because of its ties to underground Catholic churches in China.
		Speaking at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong, on Monday, he said that although the number of officially sanctioned mainland Catholic churches was rising, the Chinese government was "using ever more repressive measures" to exert control, adding that Catholic seminaries in China have been denied the right to invite visiting scholars to teach.
	www.indcatholicnews.com /hkb.html (337 words)

	Governor of Hong Kong -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Upon the reunification of Hong Kong with the (additional info and facts about People's Republic of China) People's Republic of China in 1997, this office was replaced by the (additional info and facts about Chief Executive of Hong Kong) Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
		Most recent governors of Hong Kong were professional (An official engaged in international negotiations) diplomats, but the last Governor, (additional info and facts about Chris Patten) Chris Patten, was a career (A person active in party politics) politician.
		Hong Kong had 28 governors, and 9 administrators (whose names are further indented in the following list).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Go/Governor_of_Hong_Kong.htm (502 words)

	The Epoch Times \| 'Teacup' Breaks in Storm over Hong Kong Press Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hong Kong radio talk show host Albert Cheng holds up the official confirmation of the cancellation of his Canadian passport, the first step towards registering to run for president.
		A former Hong Kong talk show host who quit his job saying he feared for his personal safety because of his outspoken views will run as an independent candidate in September's Legislative Council elections, RFA's Cantonese and Mandarin services report.
		China has been blamed for orchestrating a series of recent vandalism attacks and threats in Hong Kong, with some democratic legislators saying the intimidation aimed at derailing legislative elections in September, which democrats are expected to win.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-8-10/22810.html (638 words)

	WHO/WPRO-Opening Remarks to Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		First to the Hong Kong doctors and nurses, who performed so selflessly and, in some cases, gave their lives in the fight against SARS.
		Hong Kong has good reason to be proud of the way it responded to the challenge of SARS.
		In Hong Kong, the excellent new Centre for Health Protection, which I visited just a few weeks ago, is one of the more visible signs of how defenses against infectious diseases have been scaled up.
	www.wpro.who.int /regional_director/speeches/speech_20041129.htm (632 words)

	Hong Kong Report - Culture
		In The Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club, narrator Alice Giles goes so far as to suggest that the history of the colony might well be written from the day she arrived from the U.S. on the Pan Am Clipper.
		That was supposed to be arch, but it's a fact that the Hong Kong novel, despite inevitable descriptions of sharp-elbowed crowds and aromatic streets, is fundamentally Eurocentric.
		The literary result, however, is a Hong Kong always described as transitory, though the essence of the city is a population of 6 million Chinese who came and stayed, and a fictional world that would seem doomed if foreigners were sent packing July 1.
	www.time.com /time/hongkong/special/novel2.html (283 words)

	Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
		Foreigners, of course, were to be induced to leave.
		In Hong Kong, one assumes this means tightening visa requirements, removing ex-pat packages and moving inconveniently placed non-Chinese government employees to lesser positions so that they can understand they have reached the end of their careers.
		Examples of good and acceptable behavior were made, and families were held collectively responsible for ensuring that their members behaved accordingly or, as in recent cases in Hong Kong, were phoned up by mainland relatives and told to vote accordingly, proving it with the cameras on their mobile phones.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FG02Ad04.html (1139 words)

	Catholic World News : Hong Kong bishop: Vatican "anxious" for diplomatic ties with Beijing
		Hong Kong, Jun. 14 (CNA/CWNews.com) - During a luncheon Tuesday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong, Bishop Joseph Zen told reporters that the Vatican's policy on China has not changed under Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) and that the Vatican desires to make every effort in order to normalize relations with Beijing.
		Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule in 1997, but under the "one country, two systems" principle, retains the freedoms it enjoyed under British colonial rule.
		The Catholic Church in Hong Kong is officially under Vatican supervision and operates without restrictions.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=37782 (688 words)

	Telegraph \| Expat \| Piecing together memories of the British Empire
		Nevertheless, he was far from dismissive of correspondence he'd had with descendants of an old Indian hand, who'd complained that Forgotten Armies' treatment of their ancestor's kind was unfair.
		Tim explained, to his annoyed correspondents, that he and Bayly had been careful not to indulge in the judgment of hindsight.
		Hong Kong's expat population includes people from India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, etc. Reading groups reflect this diversity, and books touching on colonialism, even if they are critical, can prove tricky.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2005/05/09/elros.xml (826 words)

	Foreign Correspondents' Club Hong Kong - Press Freedom - Macau
		Certainty of these freedoms encouraged many foreign correspondents to use Hong Kong as a base to cover Asia and prompted some of the world's largest media organizations to locate their regional headquarters here.
		In addition to making Hong Kong the largest regional concentration of foreign media in Asia, the territory's reputation for free flowing information has also encouraged investor confidence in the economy and been a major draw for multi-nationals from many other industries.
		As it stands, the government's proposal for Article 23 would damage Hong Kong's reputation for free flowing information and possibly spark an exodus of journalists and news organizations, among other dire effects on the territory.
	www.fcchk.org /media/bl23-1.htm (796 words)

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		Hong Kong plays a critical and central role in Asian Pacific media and remains the most important window on greater China.
		Dateline Hong Kong was created in a lap top on a kitchen table in a Pokfulam high rise in 1997.
		Hong Kong seems to be operating as it did under the British.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/2365 (409 words)

	Speech by the Chief Secretary (English only)
		The validity of that claim can be measured not just in terms of GDP growth and wealth creation, but in the opportunities it offered to Hong Kong people to give full rein to their talents in business, the professions, the education of their children and the welfare of the elderly and the disadvantaged.
		Hong Kong cannot escape from that, although our China connection makes us less vulnerable than some of our neighbours as the Mainland economy remains in remarkably robust health.
		In Hong Kong's unique constitutional circumstances, we are always going to be confronted with issues like the Falun Gong or the shape of democratic development.
	www.info.gov.hk /gia/general/200106/21/0621145.htm (2442 words)

	FalunInfo.Net - AP: Hong Kong's Catholic Leader Raps China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bishop Joseph Zen, an outspoken critic of the governments in Beijing and Hong Kong, said a section of the proposed law could be used to suppress Hong Kong groups deemed to be "subordinate" to organizations banned in the mainland because they are judged to be a threat to national security.
		He fears the law could be used against Hong Kong's Roman Catholic church because of its ties to underground Catholic churches in the mainland.
		Zen, speaking during an appearance at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong, said that although the number of officially sanctioned mainland Catholic churches was rising, the Chinese government was "using ever more repressive measures" to exert control.
	www.faluninfo.net /DisplayAnArticle.asp?ID=7025 (401 words)

	Foreign Correspondents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		FCA : The Foreign Correspondents Association is the professional association representing foreign journalists working in Australia and the Pacific.
		The 'Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) in Hong Kong, founded 1949, is Asia's premier meeting place for the media...
		News correspondents report on news occurring in the large U.S. and foreign cities where they are...
	www.moviesbytitle.com /Foreign-Correspondents.html (432 words)

	"September 11 was a powerfully clarifying event" - Remarks by U.S. Consul General James R. Keith, Foreign ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As Attorney General Ashcroft remarked when he was in Hong Kong recently, "we will not surrender to terrorism by altering our commitment to civil liberties." The Attorney General was re-stating a principle that goes back to the founding fathers.
		This is the kind of environment that people have known for a long time in Hong Kong, and it is precisely in order to sustain that kind of environment that people are speaking up.
		My question is this: As somebody who has spent a long time in Hong Kong, and who knows the community pretty well, you have a pretty good idea what it takes to get thousands of people out in the street on an issue.
	www.hongkong.usconsulate.gov /cg/2002/121901.htm (3010 words)

	IFEX :: Report on press freedom in Hong Kong is released by CPJ
		Attacks on the press in China and Hong Kong in 1996 and 1997 -- ranging from harassment and censorship to expulsion -- are documented, including the cases of seventeen journalists serving prison sentences in China.
		With Hong Kong the long-reigning media capital of East Asia, much is at stake, Neumann notes.
		Neumann also stresses the linkage between conditions in Hong Kong and developments in China, where privatization of the economy is a goal newly articulated at the recent 15th Party Congress.
	www.ifex.org /es/content/view/full/5572/? (463 words)

	Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Based in Hong Kong for over 16 years, and now with a Singapore representative office, we have good local knowledge not just of Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau and China, but of Asia from Mongolia to Malaysia, from Seoul to Sydney.
		Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on 19 December 1984, Hong Kong became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 1 July 1997.
		Hong Kong is one of the few tariff-free territories in the world.
	www.tvcameramen.com /travelogue/fk/hong_kong.htm (576 words)

	FCCJ : The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some have termed it ungovernable (a term with which most Presidents have probably felt some sympathy from time to time); but if there is any fault, it is probably with the system of governance rather than with the membership.
		Our sister Club in Hong Kong makes some such positions available for election by candidates from all classes of membership - Correspondent, Journalist and Associate – and the process appears to work well.
		This is political dynamite among some members of our Club; and, therefore, the Blue Ribbon Panel (which will be chaired by some well-respected, Regular member) could decide not to touch it, or at least to get a ｡ﾈsense｡ﾉ of the feeling among current voting membership before proceeding to any recommendations.
	www.fccj.or.jp /modules/wfsection/article.php?category=2&articleid=630 (996 words)

	Society of Professional Journalists
		He is well known in Hong Kong and Greater China as a serious journalist of strong personal integrity.
		When he did, he left behind the legal protections enjoyed in Hong Kong and entered mainland China, where arbitrary detention and arrest are commonplace.
		The Hong Journalists Association and Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong have urged that Ching be immediately released and returned to Hong Kong pending any legal actions against him.
	www.spj.org /news.asp?ref=431 (474 words)

	Art Exhibitions - Pat Elliott Shircore, 'Signed and Sealed'
		Since June 1997, Pat has held six solo exhibitions of this portfolio in Hong Kong, at LKF the Gallery (top and bottom right) and the Foreign Correspondents' Club, during the Handover in 1997, and subsequently at the China Tee Club and the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre for the IMF World Bank Conference.
		In 1998, a private exhibition was held in London at the Anna-Mei Chadwick Gallery.
		They derive from the Treaty of Nanking of 1842 when China ceded Hong Kong to Britain, and the Second Convention of Peking of 1898, when the area under British rule was extended by lease for 99 years.
	www.artasialink.com /pages/exhibit.htm (329 words)

	Foreign Correspondents' Club Hong Kong - Wines of the Month
		On September 7, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong will host its first charity ball for the endowment of a new scholarship fund at Po Leung Kuk, one of Hong Kong's first orphanages.
		With your help, the Foreign Correspondents' Club Scholarship Fund will enable young people from the orphanage to attend university in Hong Kong or overseas.
		As the flagship event of the Foreign Correspondents' Club, the ball will attract leading members of the regional media, high-ranking executives from every industry as well as representatives from consulates and the Hong Kong government.
	www.fcchk.org /events/ball.htm (352 words)

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