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	hong kong resource page - hong kong
		The liberation of Hong Kong in 1945 was celebrated at the Cenotaph in Victoria with the raising of the Union Flag and the Flag of the Republic of China.
		Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC at the stroke of midnight on 1 July 1997, with the last governor, Chris Patten leaving on the royal yacht.
		Hong Kong's climate is subtropical and prone to monsoons.
	www.thetaxglossary.com /Hom-to-Idi/hong_kong.php (6568 words)

	Mount Parker, Hong Kong at AllExperts
		Mount Parker (ææ¶å±±), known indigenous as Lam San Ting, is the second highest peak (531 metres) on Hong Kong Island, after Victoria Peak (552m).
		It is the 13th highest peak of the territory of Hong Kong.
		A rare, native species, Camellia hongkongensis is distributed in Mount Parker; another species, Camellia crapnelliana was first discovered in Mount Parker.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/mo/mount_parker,_hong_kong.htm (131 words)

	Hong Kong - www.canadiansoldiers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hong Kong was a Battle Honour awarded to units that fought on that island during The War Against Japan in the Second World War.
		While some studies of the problem of defending Hong Kong from attack had concluded that a defence of the island was impossible, a defensive position on the mainland had been begun in the 1930s.
		The British felt that a reinforcement of the garrison at Hong Kong was justified, in order to reassure the Chinese that the Allies had a genuine intention to hold the colony, and as a boost to morale throughout the Far East.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Hong_Kong (1887 words)

	From City Center To Pastoral Vistas - New York Times
		Hong Kong Special Administrative Region -- as the city and its surroundings have been officially known since the 1997 British handover to China -- is unlike any other city of 6.7 million in that most of its back-country hiking trails lie very close by.
		The Violet Hill Trail is typical of Hong Kong trails in the way it suddenly darts off from the thick of the city into tranquil green wildness.
		It is on Mount Parker, overlooking Quarry Bay on the northeast side of the island -- not on the Dragon's Back ridge on the D'Aguilar Peninsula to the southeast.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9C0DE6DD173BF931A35751C0A9659C8B63&n=Top/Features/Travel/Destinations/Asia (653 words)

	1996 Country Commercial Guides
		Hong Kong Governor Patten's proposals for modest reforms of Hong Kong's three tiers of governmental bodies (the Legislative Council, district boards, and municipal councils) were not agreed to by Beijing after 17 rounds of negotiations.
		Hong Kong's legal system, including the independence of the judiciary and obligation of the executive authorities to abide by the law, are slated to continue.
		Hong Kong is one of the most expensive cities in the world, especially for housing, but it is also a very efficient city making it possible to accomplish a great deal in a short time.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/economics/commercial_guides/Hong_Kong.html (16571 words)

	Mount Parker, Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mount Parker (柏架山), known indigenous as Lam San Ting, is the second highest peak (531 metres) on Hong Kong Island, after Victoria Peak (552m).
		It is the 13th highest peak of the territory of Hong Kong.
		A rare, native species, Camellia hongkongensis is distributed in Mount Parker; another species, Camellia crapnelliana was first discovered in Mount Parker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Parker_(Hong_Kong) (124 words)

	Hong Kong: Country Commercial Guide (FY1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hong Kong has the largest number of authorized insurance companies in Asia: at the end of 1996, Hong Kong had 223 authorized insurers, of which 123 were incorporated overseas.
		Hong Kong, with perhaps the highest per capita consumption of fresh oranges in the world, imported 121,477 metric tons of oranges from the United States in 1996.
		All of Hong Kong is a duty-free zone, as it is a free port.
	www.usconsulate.org.hk /ushk/economic/1997/98ccg.htm (18010 words)

	Hong Kong Pathfinder: 23 day-walks in Hong Kong
		Though Hong Kong is renowned as a thriving business centre, more than 40 percent of the SAR is designated as country park, and even the most remote parts are seldom more than a couple of hours from the confines of the city.
		On Lantau, Hong Kong’s largest island, I relate some tremendous hikes — including starting near the famed Big Buddha, and in the beautiful yet little known southwest — but also report on a stretch of coastline devastated by development.
		Before closing in northeast Hong Kong, I head out to Ping Chau, a tiny islet that seems far from the rest of Hong Kong, yet is little more than a stone’s throw from beaches in mainland China.
	members.tripod.com /~MartinWilliams/pathfinder/pathfinder.html (1146 words)

	Canada at War - Page: WWII: The Battle of Hong Kong
		On December 13, a Japanese demand for the surrender of Hong Kong was categorically rejected.
		With the enemy well established on the high hills from Mount Parker to Jardine's Lookout, General Maltby ordered the East Brigade to withdraw southwards towards Stanley Peninsula where, it was hoped, a counter-attack could be made.
		For more than three and a half years, the Canadian POWs were imprisoned in Hong Kong and Japan in the foulest of conditions and had to endure brutal treatment and near-starvation.
	www.wwii.ca /page42.html (3026 words)

	Chapter One: Before the Battle, Guest of Hirohito by Kenneth Cambon, M.D.
		The Hong Kong of today is an entirely different world, the island a cluster of sky-scrapers and the New Territories a hive of activities.
		It was evident that the key to any defense of Hong Kong had to be the prevention of any permanent beachhead on the island.
		Mount Parker, which had a commanding view of the entire potential landing area, was initially sparsely manned, not even having an adequate observation post.
	fourthmarinesband.com /cambon1.htm (4420 words)

	DiscoverHongKong - About Hong Kong Tourism Board
		Hong Kong is a blend of East and West, which means that there is a great deal of choice.
		There are also 41 public bathing beaches in Hong Kong, with facilities including lifeguards, changing facilities and refreshment kiosks during the April-October season; for visitors with limited time, Deep Water Bay and Repulse Bay on the south side of Hong Kong Island are easy to reach.
		It's one of the oldest and largest in Hong Kong, and is dedicated to Kwan Kung, the god of war, and Man Cheong, the god of literature.
	www.discoverhongkong.com /eng/worldwide/medi/ww_medi_feat_leis1.jhtml (2055 words)

	Walking in Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pertin kotisivu > Retkeily ja melonta > Hong Kong
		Hong Kong has hundreds of kilometres of marked walking paths and some 500 sq.
		The scenery from Mt. Parker is beautiful and very much Hong Kong: housing estates, harbour, nature parks and sea.
	www.kolumbus.fi /lehtis/retki/hongkong_walk/hk_walk.htm (157 words)

	Hong Kong upgrades air surveillance radar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A new route surveillance radar (RSR) has been installed on Mount Parker, on Hong Kong Island, to improve the surveillance capability of the Hong Kong air traffic control system.
		It replaces the old primary surveillance radar which was erected on Mount Parker in 1978 for the former Hong Kong International Airport at Kai Tak.
		During the replacement process, the Mount Parker radar station was renovated with the inclusion of a new standby generator, fuel tank, power supply system and fire fighting system.
	www.info.gov.hk /gia/general/brandhk/0330090.htm (315 words)

	HongKongChina
		Hong Kong is the only economy in Asia Pacific where improved job prospects are expected in the third quarter, according to a survey by Manpower Inc, a global employment services firm.
		Hong Kong's small and medium-sized companies, the backbone of the city's economy, are finding it increasingly tough to arrange syndicated bank loans as lenders pull back amid concern over growing credit risks and rock-bottom margins that make loans barely profitable, bankers said.
		Oasis Hong Kong Airlines is seeking permission to fly to six destinations in Europe and the United States in a move that may be contested by Cathay Pacific Airways for breaking established practices for applications to the Air Transport Licensing Authority (Atla).
	www.hkchcc.org /hongkong-china13.htm (13501 words)

	Hong Kong Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The urban areas are largely confined to the strip along the north coast and the rest of the island is hilly, with a large number of paths, not all of them as well kept as Heywood suggests.
		The main hiking areas are in the west around Victoria Peak and the Pokfulam and Aberdeen Country Parks (Mount Davies, Three Orchids Walk and Pokfulam Country Park), on the hills in the centre of the island and in the east in Tai Tam Country Park (Violet Hill).
		When Captain Charles Elliot took possession of Hong Kong in 1841, to the dismay of Queen Victoria, it was sparsely inhabited and was described as a barren rock.
	ec.hku.hk /hiking/Hong_Kong/starting_points.htm (1507 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Advertisement feature \| Access all areas - Insider view
		He is part of the Hong Kong Paragliding Association.
		Hong Kong Island, especially the south side, is crisscrossed with trails.
		Hong Kong is a great place to do this.
	www.guardian.co.uk /hongkonginsidersguide/story/0,16655,1600345,00.html (871 words)

	Porcupine! 23 - Invertebrates
		The north-facing slopes of Wutongshan are steep and relatively well-wooded.
		In Hong Kong, so far there are no detailed investigations of Sacculina infestations, the only records of Sacculina (parasitizing crabs) being those of Morton and Morton (1983) and Morton (1994).
		In Hong Kong, Sacculina infestation has only been recorded for the crab Leptodius exaratus (the record of Sacculina confragosa parasitizing the crab Epixanthus frontalis in Morton 1988 is suspected to be a misidentification) and the infection rate is only around 10 % at Lobster Bay and in another boulder shore near Lap Sap Wan.
	www.hku.hk /ecology/porcupine/por23/23-invertebrates.htm (1724 words)

	2006: A year in review \| Mountvernonnews.com - Mount Vernon News
		MOUNT VERNON — It’s said that when one begins to age, there’s a tendency to mark time by events rather than dates.
		The architectural features of buildings around Mount Vernon’s Public Square were highlighted in a posted "Looking Up." Project coordinated by the Knox County Renaissance Foundation, and the Knox County Health Department suspended the food service license for The New Hong Kong Buffet in November.
		Dorothy Parker and Susie Bowden were honored for their years of service as township clerks.
	www.mountvernonnews.com /local/06/12/30/2006.year.in.review.html (2853 words)

	battlefacts
		The Hong Kong Colony consisted of the island itself and the mainland areas of Kowloon and the 'New Territories'.
		It was no surprise to the Hong Kong defenders when the Japanese attacked on December 8, 1941.
		While inflicting severe casualties on the Japanese, the Grenadiers managed to hold on to the main north-south road across the island and their positions near Wong Nei Chong Gap until December 22nd when their ammunition, food, and water were exhausted.
	www.geocities.com /canadianhongkongveteran/battlefacts.html (1134 words)

	Makeover gives tourists new look at Washington at Mount Vernon - News - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MOUNT VERNON, Va. Mount Vernon is set to open a new orientation center and education center that officials hope will push the museum into the multimedia age.">
		WAVY-TV MOUNT VERNON, Va. Mount Vernon is set to open a new orientation center and education center that officials hope will push the museum into the multimedia age.
		Mount Vernon officials say they made the changes after realizing the estate was giving visitors the impression that Washington was an impersonal icon.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/15352624 (255 words)

	Appendices: Excerpts from War-Crime Trials, Guest of Hirohito by Kenneth Cambon, M.D.
		MARC PETIT, wife of the sub-manager of the Messageries Maritimes in Hong Kong, and who was one of the ladies taking refuge in our Consulate, also attempted to save her watch, and one of the soldiers took out his bayonet and tried to cut her wrist.
		In a place like Hong Kong, where cholera and dysentery spread so easily on account of overcrowding and lack of precautions by the natives, it was most urgent to try to keep the Streets clean.
		One of the first acts of the Japanese when they occupied Kowloon and Hong Kong was to empty the hospitals, as for instance in the case of the Queen Mary Hospital, which was crowded with wounded and sick, and where they granted only two hours for the removal of the entire personnel and patients.
	www.fourthmarinesband.com /cambon8.htm (13945 words)

	Hong Kong Pathfinder - best-selling hiking guide book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Hong Kong Pathfinder, I cover 24 excursions into rural Hong Kong; they take in rugged hills, forested valleys, reservoirs and waterfalls, temples and ageing villages, long abandoned forts and lonely islands.
		Now in its eighth edition, the book is published by Asia 2000, and is widely available in Hong Kong (HK$98 for 7th edition; not sure yet re 8th).
		Hong Kong Pathfinder forum - for any comments, quesions, brickbats n praise you may have.
	www.drmartinwilliams.com /pathfinder/pathfinder.html (1218 words)

	Jerry Parker and Chesapeake Capital: TurtleTrader Continues to Win
		Jerry Parker, the most successful of the Turtles, recently spoke to a crowd of non-believers at the annual Futures and Options Expo in Chicago.
		Parker spoke at length about the dangers of a buy and hold mentality stating the strategy of buy and hold is bad:
		Parker painted a picture where risk for many is simply a term defined by belief rather than his view of risk which is measured in concrete terms.
	www.turtletrader.com /jerryparker.html (468 words)

	AFCD Tai Tam (Quarry Bay Ext.)
		The dense woodlands on the two sides of Tai Tam Reservoir Road and the region south of Mount Parker are ideal habitats for native wild animals.
		It is no coincidence that both the Hong Kong Trail and Wilson Trail pass by Jardine's Lookout in Tai Tam Country Park, for this high point offers the most beguiling view of Victoria Harbour.
		Stage 5 of the Hong Kong Trail begins at Wong Nai Chung Gap and conquers the 433 m Jardine's Lookout via the north embankment of Wong Nai Chung Reservoir and Parkview.
	www.afcd.gov.hk /english/country/cou_vis/cou_vis_cou/cou_vis_cou_ttqbe/cou_vis_cou_ttqbe.html (1569 words)

	:::: KCC - Lawnbowls ::::
		Others representing Hong Kong in the series of Interports against Shanghai were: H Hampton, A E Silkstone, E C Fincher (pre-War) and T A Madar and W Hong Sling (post-War).
		In the late Seventies, Hong Kong was seeing a boom in its economy and many expatriates were drawn to these shores.
		Gary Dang (1979), Kelvin Melbourne (1985 and 1986), Chadwick Chen (1987 and 1989) and Graeme Parker (1993 and 1994).
	www.kcc.org.hk /LAWNBOWLS.html (1234 words)

	Hong Kong Nature Net
		Hong Kong's mountains are particularly special elements of the local natural setting.
		It is indeed the most striking testimony to Hong Kong's dynamic beauty.
		All images are panoramic views enjoyed only from high points, revealing our glorious country from angles that you might not have seen in your hiking trips.
	www.hknature.net /eng/profiles/2004/postcard1b.html (167 words)

	index-14
		He saw the Japanese take Fort Sau Ki Wau directly in front of his position and his men were under fire from the fort even as he radioed Wallis's Headquarters to inform them of the situation.
		Major Parker wrote of that conversation; "For the second time, in a period of only a few days, Major Bishop, officer commanding "C" Company and Brigadier Wallis were to have "words" with each other.
		The Japanese were able to capture the Fort and the dominant high ground on Mount Parker.
	www.geocities.com /rcwpca/index-14.html (687 words)

	Mount Olive - Information
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	home.tiscali.de /onlineinfo/mount-olive.html (192 words)

	Davao
		And the other part is a rural landscape of hills that roll down into fertile valleys, dominated by the 2,954-meter-high Mount Apo, the grandfather of all Philippine mountains, and peopled by the Bagobo, Manobo, Mandaya, Bilaan and other ancestral tribes.
		On the slopes of Mount Apo was discovered the waling-waling, an orchid of exceptional attributes - with full, velvety petals tinged in royal colors of purple, red and yellow.
		GenSan is the jump-off point for explorations to nearby Mount Parker and Mount Matutum, and their many caves.
	www.dotpcvc.gov.ph /Destinations/davao.htm (1622 words)

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