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	Demographics of Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with an overall density of some 6,300 people per square kilometre.
		Despite the population density, Hong Kong is reported to be one of the greenest cities in Asia, with the majority of people living in apartments in high-rise buildings, and most land reserved for open spaces, country parks, and woodland.
		Albeit the sovereignty of Hong Kong has been transfered to the PRC by the United Kingdom in 1997, English is still one of the official languages of the Hong Kong, and its official status is enshrined in the Basic Law.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demographics_of_Hong_Kong (942 words)

	MSN Encarta - Hong Kong
		Hong Kong is bordered on the north by Guangdong Province and on the east, west, and south by the South China Sea.
		Hong Kong’s mainland portion consists of the urban area of Kowloon and a portion of the New Territories, a large area that became part of Hong Kong in 1898.
		Hong Kong is among the leading trading centers in the world, and shipping and trade continue to be important aspects of its economy.
	encarta.msn.com /content_761561507/Hong_Kong.html (2119 words)

	Hong Kong
		The name "Hong Kong" is derived from Hong Kong Island in the South China Sea, at the mouth of the Xi Jiang or Pearl River of southern China.
		Hong Kong is by population the fourth largest metropolitan area of the PRC (see List of cities in China).
		Cantonese, the Chinese dialect used in Hong Kong government matters, is spoken by most of the population at home and in the office.
	brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/hong_kong.html (1341 words)

	Issihk.com - Hong Kong, CHINA - Effective Governance, Vibrant Economy, Caring and Just Society, Enlightened People with ...
		Hong Kong’s legislative organ prior to July 1997 was the 60-member Legislative Council (Legco), 39 of whom were, by 1995, directly elected (20 by public poll, 10 by electoral colleges, and 9 by functional constituencies representing occupational groups), and 21 indirectly elected.
		Hong Kong is south of the Chinese province of Guangdong, on the South China Sea.
		Hong Kong's greatest asset is the deep and well-protected harbor between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon (on the mainland).
	hongkong.issihk.net (5547 words)

	Hong Kong (08/05)
		The Hong Kong Government is currently engaged in a public consultation process intended to lead to changes in the mechanism for choosing the Chief Executive and forming the Legislative Council and move toward the "ultimate aim" of universal suffrage as prescribed by the Basic Law.
		Hong Kong is endeavoring to improve its attractiveness as a commercial and trading center, especially after China's entry into the WTO, and continues to refine its financial architecture.
		Hong Kong's foreign relations and defense are the responsibility of China.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2747.htm (2755 words)

	Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hong Kong is on the southeast coast of China.
		Hong Kong Park is a splendid urban oasis on Hong Kong Island, a plot of tropical nature in the middle of one of the world's most densely populated cities.
		On the south end of Hong Kong Island is Aberdeen Harbor, which lives life at a somewhat slower pace than the north end of the island.
	home.comcast.net /~flaatnet/chitrip/hongkong.html (577 words)

	Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world and the population is approximately 7 million, most of which are of Chinese origin.
		Hong Kong is one of the major business and financial centers in Asia with an established international banking system and infrastructure.
		Hong Kong companies are required to file an annual return which gives details of the current directors and of the shareholders who have held shares in the company at any time during the year.
	www.cayman-hk.com /entities/hongkong.html (687 words)

	Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hong Kong is a unique melding of Eastern and Western influences, whose history has made it a meeting point for China and the outside world.
		Hong Kong consists of Hong Kong Island (ceded by China to Britain in 1842), the southern part of the Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island (ceded in 1860) and the New Territories, which include the mainland area lying to the north and 235 offshore islands.
		Hong Kong was not isolated from Chinese domestic politics, however, especially during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9708/text/hongkong.html (1920 words)

	Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: A Country Profile
		Hong Kong is situated partly on the mainland southeast coast of the People's Republic of China and partly offshore, comprising Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories, and numerous small islands.
		Hong Kong is one of the world's most densely populated areas, with an overall density of 6.042 people per square kilometer.
		Since the handover, Hong Kong continues to be a venue for protests by human rights and pro-democracy groups, which have called for Beijing to release political prisoners and to say it was wrong in crushing the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989.
	gbgm-umc.org /asia-pacific/hong-kong/hprofile.html (1228 words)

	Hong Kong
		The British and Chinese governments agreed to transfer jurisdiction of all Hong Kong territories to the PRC at midnight, 1 July 1997.
		With the transition to Chinese rule in 1997, television in Hong Kong must balance a tension between needing to adapt to the ideology of new political leadership with attempting to maintain the economic success of the industry.
		Hong Kong: The Press of the Hong Kong Institute of Asian-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/hongkong/hongkong.htm (2170 words)

	Universe Magazine - Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In coming to Hong Kong, they surrendered much of their previous identities along with their passports to the Immigration Department at the border crossing, and what has emerged in the transplantation are new cultural formations: fragments of the old, hybrids with the new, and hyphenations that separate as well as connect.
		Indeed, Hong Kong’s pea blossom icon identified on the global level as an orchid (see Newt Gingrich’s perception of the relationship between China and Hong Kong as a gorilla holding an orchid in its hand) is not an orchid at all.
		Hong Kongers have always worn two faces simultaneously, one in public for the public, and the other also public but waiting for the next public; one is presented to the British colonizers and their various representations, and the other to relatives and proven friends.
	www.wsu.edu /NIS/Universe/HongAb.html (2084 words)

	Travel Channel :: Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Silverware is common in Hong Kong, but it is a respectful gesture to try your hand at chopsticks.
		Smoking is common in Hong Kong, yet you should know that in July 1998 smoking was officially banned in all indoor public areas, including malls, banks, department stores, and supermarkets.
		Hong Kong is extremely crowded; pushing, shoving, and nudging are commonplace.
	travel.discovery.com /destinations/fodors/hongkong/tips_20027_2.html (832 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com: Across the Generations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the year since the British handed the Hong Kong colony back to the mainland Chinese, daily life has changed little under the "one-country, two-systems" agreement between the British and the Chinese.
		Hong Kong is known as a banking and trade mecca but many lower-income livelihoods are still common.
		For instance, Hong Kong residents publicly rallied with little incident in early June to commemorate the 1989 massacre.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/special/generations/9.html (279 words)

	Tai Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The statue is at Tai Hong Kong Shrine, Chinatown, Bangkok.
		Tai Hong Kong Shrine is situated at Chinatown in Bangkok.
		There were miracle events often recounted in among Chinese that Tai Hong Kong helped disastrous people with his big body standing on the fire furor and trying to extinquish it.
	www.angelfire.com /linux/thaipopamulets/taihong.html (732 words)

	HONG KONG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hong Kong is known as the city of life.
		The climate is "tropical monsoon, with cool and humid in the winter, hot and rainy from spring to summer, and warm and sunny in the fall." Hong Kong’s current environment situation is high "air and water pollution from rapid urbanization".
		Hong Kong companies are trying to stay ahead of the competition by implementing the just-in-time theory of inventory and by discovering the advantages of the Internet.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~bh224395/esp/FinalMKT.htm (2888 words)

	CONTENTS
		Hong Kong has a rich linguistic history and, as it is re-integrated into China, promises a complex and fascinating future - not least to students of language.
		Hong Kong: Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.
		Pioneers in Hong Kong are Kwok and Chan and Gibbons, with their examination of the language mixing habits of university students.
	ec.hku.hk /njbruce/LANGBIBF.htm (13826 words)

	Hong Kong in a Nutshell by Asia Travel
		Hong Kong Island is 77.5 sq km; urban areas are concentrated along the northern shore, its centre and south coast being dominated by mountains.
		While Hong Kong's sub-tropical climate does not offer the extremes endured by regions to north and south, there is a definite seasonal variation that should be taken into account.
		The Cantonese dialect is the most commonly spoken language in the territory, though English is the language of the business and service industries; hotel employees, many urban Hong Kong residents, most young people and shop and service personnel understand and speak it to some degree.
	www.asiatravel.com /hknut.html (938 words)

	Travel: Hong Kong farewell
		In January, about three months before the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong (though it apparently was already spreading in mainland China), the median monthly household income in Hong Kong had dropped to what it had been in 1995.
		It is significant because under Hong Kong's miniconstitution, termed the Basic Law, the masses will get the right to elect all of their political leaders in 2007.
		Hong Kong is probably no more dangerous now than driving on Interstate 4.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/12/14/news_pf/Travel/Hong_Kong_farewell.shtml (1531 words)

	Hong kong Travel Information Provided by Asia Travel
		The total land area of Hong Kong is 1,078 square kilometers, comprising Hong Kong Island (77.5 square kilometers); Kowloon (45.5 square kilometer); and the New Territories, including 235 outlying islands (955 square kilometers).
		The voltage in Hong Kong is 200/220 volts, 50 cycles.
		Hong Kong International Airport is approximately 40 minutes' drive by car from all major hotels in Kowloon and about 50 minutes' drive via the Cross-Harbour Tunnel from all major hotels on Hong Kong Island (under normal traffic conditions).
	asiatravel.com /hkinfo.html (1811 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Hong Kong corporations are organizing similar lessons for their executives, with the stress on Chinese economics and finance.
		While Hong Kong artists find it hard to associate with China's culture, more and more local galleries are exhibiting mainland painters, whose work reflects both cultural depth and an awareness of history.
		In the years ahead, Hong Kong is likely to rediscover its Chinese roots, while China will continue to draw from the territory compelling ideas for its own modernization.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/96/0628/feat1.html (3834 words)

	Letter From Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		ONG KONG -- When it first announced that members of the People's Liberation Army would be stationed here, Beijing promised that the troops would be "highly civilized," "knowledgeable in Hong Kong affairs" and fluent in Cantonese, the dominant Chinese dialect in the territory.
		In Hong Kong, the incident was seen as an example of the Chinese army ignoring local laws.
		The Hong Kong Standard, a newspaper not noted for its criticism of Beijing, cautioned that unless the details of the incident were revealed, it would "only add to the fears and suspicions already expressed about the PLA's role in Hong Kong."
	www.nytimes.com /specials/hongkong/062097letter.html (501 words)

	CNN - Business Traveler's Advisory - Hong Kong, China
		Hong Kong's new airport is Chek Lap Kok, sprawling on reclaimed land 21 mi/35 km from the city.
		HONG KONG, despite the Asian economic downturn, remains one of the world's busiest international business centers.
		Hong Kong is eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.
	www.cnn.com /WEATHER/bta/cities/HongKongChina.html (2121 words)

	The New York Times: Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong, a fervently capitalist and increasingly democracy-minded British colony, came under the control of China, a Communist nation that values stability over individual freedoms.
		For the first time in Hong Kong's history a Hong Konger stepped before his people as their leader Tuesday, explaining in their own dialect of Cantonese how the onset of Chinese rule would change their lives.
		As Asian neighbors watched the celebratory fireworks in Hong Kong, their thoughts were far from the issue that has preoccupied the United States -- whether Communist China will crack down on civil liberties in Hong Kong.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/hongkong (815 words)

	Hong Kong - people
		To the Hong Kong people, time is money, and a minute lost is a step away from fortune.
		The massive immigration of new blood into the country continues to heighten Hong Kong's ado and vigor.
		Ninety eight percent of Hong Kong's population consists of Chinese, mainly Cantonese from mainland China.
	www.marimari.com /content/hong_kong/general_info/people/main.html (632 words)

	This page is under construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These are 2 photos of the front and back of an electrical switch box that stands directly in front of the Hong Kong Central Public Library opposite the Victoria Park in Causeway Bay (the calligraphy have been recently painted over and therefore removed).
		The author must be getting old by now, because many years ago you could see his work in town and outskirt of Hong Kong everywhere, but now it is seldom seen, also his hand writings are not as steady as it used to be.
		Generally he is left alone to his nutty vandalism, which has put his work and his name in the spot light in Hong Kong and even far beyond, probably because other Chinese people can also feel the inner vibration of love and tradition for their own ancestral roots....
	www.regenerating-universe.org /NuttyFamilyPride.htm (666 words)

	Hong Kong
		Little time was wasted in getting down to the business of governing Hong Kong today, with the newly inaugurated legislature passing a series of laws including one which gives police the power to ban political demonstrations.
		In an attempt to further calm fears of a crackdown, the Chinese leadership has promised Hong Kong citizens that soldiers assigned to garrison duty will be forbidden by law from involvement in Hong Kong's affairs and will not appear on the streets in armed vehicles.
		The latest polls support an easing attitude towards Hong Kong's new rulers, finding 35.1 percent of the population greeting the handover positively, up from 29 percent Sunday.
	www.time.com /time/hongkong/latest/latesthandover.html (271 words)

	Vol. 1 No.8 - Pg.3 - Col.1
		A number of Chinese converts, in Hong Kong, have associated themselves for combined efforts towards the diffusion of Gospel light, and have addressed a letter, signed by twenty persons, to the editor of the Missionary Leaf, published in Wurtemburg, from which it appears that Christianity produces similar effects in all countries.
		Yew Ching conducts the one in the Hong Kong dialect, and the attendance is sometimes very encouraging.
		Tae is next to him; he is a young man, accustomed to teaching, who manifested in a short time, that God had called him to the blessed work of making known his name.
	www.history.rochester.edu /Scientific_American/vol1/vol1n008/p3c5.htm (927 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Colloquial Cantonese the Complete Course for Beginners with CDROM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The exercises are a little difficult until you really have a handle on the new words and phrases.
		You may not like this if you are going to Hong Kong and want to learn fast.
		This also teaches Hong Kong dialect, so there are some differences from Mainland Cantonese (my boyfriend's family is from Canton) but there is nothing that won't be understood anyway.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415155339 (576 words)

	New Internet Information on Chinese Chess
		This image is again taken per permission of Nick Jacobs (njacobs@bix.com), to whom thanks is due.
		It is from an advertising brochure I found in Hong Kong.
		I have one of the two sets -- the set uses only the top seven figurines in two colors: gray and rust-red.
	www.xmission.com /~gastown/afi/chchess.htm (630 words)

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