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	Right of abode issue, Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The debate erupted on 29 January 1999, when the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeals ruled that the children of parents who have the right of abode in Hong Kong also have the right of abode, irrespective of whether their parents were permanent residents at the time of their birth.
		Those with the right of abode would be allowed to live, work, and vote without restriction in Hong Kong, and is considered desirable by many in neighbouring areas as the territory's quality of life is the highest in the region.
		Another issue was whether persons of PRC nationality living in mainland China who qualified for permanent residence in Hong Kong under Article 24 would have to acquire an exit permit from the Chinese government to leave mainland China before they could exercise the right of abode in Hong Kong.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Right_of_abode_issue,_Hong_Kong (2002 words)

	Ask Us A Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Hong Kong is on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta on the southeastern coast of China, facing the South China Sea in the south, and bordering Guangdong Province in the north.
		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's climate is subtropical and prone to monsoons.
	www.avoo.com /wiki/Hong_Kong (7062 words)

	ipedia.com: Hong Kong Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Right of abode issue sparked debates in 1999, while the controversy over Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 was the focus of politics in Hong Kong between 2002-2003, and the focus of controversies have shifted to the issue of universal suffrage towards the end of 2003 and in 2004.
		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).
	www.ipedia.com /hong_kong.html (1363 words)

	JURIST Hong Kong - Hong Kong law, legal research, human rights
		Hong Kong reverted from British to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997 (the handover).
		The Hong Kong members are nominated by the Chief Executive, the President of the Legislative Council, and the Chief Justice.
		In several right of abode cases before the Court of Final Appeal during the year, the Government argued that the Court should seek an NPCSC interpretation of relevant Basic Law provisions, but did not seek one itself when the Court declined to do so, even in the one case that it lost.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/hongkong.htm (1124 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1999 - Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Human rights groups have called repeatedly for a more independent monitoring body, noting long delays in hearing some allegations, the contrast between the relatively large number of complaints and the few that are substantiated, and the unwillingness of witnesses to substantiate complaints to the police for fear of retribution.
		Two additional right of abode cases, one dealing with the rights of adopted children and the other with mainlanders who sought to exercise their right of abode without mainland-issued documents permitting them to remain in Hong Kong were heard by the Court of Final Appeal in October.
		Residents' right to change their government is limited by voting regulations that provide for the election of the Chief Executive by an appointed selection committee of 400, the direct election of only a limited number of Legislative Council members, and the addition of appointed members to the elected district boards and municipal councils.
	www.usemb.se /human/human1999/hongkong.html (11215 words)

	1997 Human Rights Reports: Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Hong Kong's ultimate judicial body, the Court of Final Appeal, was established on July 1, inheriting, in large part, the power of final judgment formerly held by the Privy Council in London.
		Hong Kong's Democratic Party, which declined to seek seats in what it deemed an illegitimate body, believed that the process did not have a legal foundation, lacked transparency, was not based on a free and fair election, and excluded groups, parties, and individuals critical of China.
		Hong Kong's Democratic Party and independents criticized the bill for replacing the 1995 single-vote, single-seat system for geographic seats with a proportional system which they claim will cut down on the number of their members elected and help smaller, pro-China parties win seats in the geographic constituencies.
	www.usemb.se /human/human97/hongkong.html (8344 words)

	Hong Kong and China are one country - and don't forget it - smh.com.au
		It is almost as if Hong Kong is being subjected to a form of water torture, slowly wearing away the veneer of independence that was supposed to survive the reversion to Chinese rule.
		It was meant to preserve Hong Kong in a kind of administrative aspic, ensuring the political, legal and capitalist legacy of 155 years of British rule lasted at least another 50 years.
		After Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal ruled in 1999 that children born on the mainland before their parents became Hong Kong residents could stay in Hong Kong, the local government appealed to China's rubber-stamp parliament for an interpretation of the law.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/10/1021002391990.html (852 words)

	Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Right of abode issue sparked debates in 1999 while the controversy over Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 was the focus of politics in Kong between 2002 - 2003 and the focus of controversies have to the issue of universal suffrage towards the end of 2003 and 2004.
		Hong Kong is by population the fourth metropolitan area of the PRC (see List of cities in China).
		Despite the population density Hong Kong was to be one of the greenest cities Asia.
	www.freeglossary.com /Hong_Kong (1551 words)

	The Right of Abode Cases
		As both Chinese national legislation and Hong Kong's primary constitutional document, the Basic Law defines the power structure the central and the region governments are part of, the institutional relationships between the executive, legislative and judicial branches, and the rights and status of individuals in relation to state authority.
		But damage has been done to the ideal of the rule of law in Hong Kong society because the government and the NPCSC took the risk of undermining the image and standing of the courts by declaring that the CFA was wrong in its handling of the first right of abode case.
		By ruling that the Article 24(3) right of abode is limited to mainland children born of Hong Kong parents who were Hong Kong residents at the time of the child's birth, the NPCSC actually modified law rather than interpreted it.
	www.oycf.org /Perspectives/10_022801/right_of_abode_cases.htm (5734 words)

	The Right of Abode Cases: The Basic Law on Trial (Part I)
		This retroactive deprivation of the right of abode by administrative means triggered a number of test cases in court, which eventually came before the CFA in the case of Ng Ka Ling v.
		Another issue was whether persons of Chinese nationality living in the mainland who qualified for permanent residence in Hong Kong under Article 24 would have to acquire an exit permit from the Chinese government to leave the mainland before they could exercise the right of abode in Hong Kong.
		The CFA affirmed that the right of abode was a core right under the ICCPR.
	www.oycf.org /Perspectives/9_123100/right_of_abode_cases.htm (3358 words)

	Simon World :: Hong Kong democracy/politics Archives
		Hong Kong is one of the last remaining developed economies to not have such a tax.
		Hong Kong has a strange kind of democracy - here parties campaign on essentially one major issue, which is whether they are pro and anti-government.
		Capacity of Hong Kong Stadium is roughly 40,000.
	simonworld.mu.nu /archives/cat_hong_kong_democracypolitics.php (10215 words)

	The Harbinger. Air Pollution & Right-to-Abode: Hong Kong Citizens Face Huge Challenges at the Start of a New Century.
		But when a representative of the Hong Kong Government indicated that it plans to appeal the case of toddler Chong to the Court of Appeal, proponents of self autonomy raised alarms, saying that this is beginning to look like the events of past year.
		Regarding the present case involving children born to women entering on a visiting permit from mainland China while they are Hong Kong, the impact is much smaller because there were only 3,660 such children in 1997 and 2,331 in the first six months of 1999.
		However small the statistics, there are those in Hong Kong who fear that the Hong Kong Government, once it loses in the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal, may yet turn to Beijing again to overturn decisions that do not meet its approval.
	www.theharbinger.org /xviii/000111/tsang1.html (872 words)

	Home Return Permit - China-related Topics HM-HP - China-Related Topics
		Before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, permits resembled a passport physically (though the PRC Government never recognise it as a passport) and the mainland authorities stamped the permits upon entering and exiting.
		Before the handovertransfer of sovereignty, home return permits were issued to any ethnic Chinese person in Hong Kong or Macao as the PRC Government did not recognise the unequal treatycolonial era treaties.
		Some prominent :category:Hong Kong politicianspoliticians in Hong Kong, such as Emily Lau and Leung Kwok Hung, have had their applications denied because they are not considered friendly to the Central People's Governmentcentral government in Beijing.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Home_Return_Permit (1384 words)

	LINGUIST List 12.1504: English-Chinese Translator in Hong Kong China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		oratio.com Address for Applications: 610 Wing On House, 71 Des Voeux Road Central Central HKSAR N/A China (HKSAR) Senior Linguist-Translator Oratio Corporation (Asia) Limited, incorporated in Hong Kong, is looking for a senior linguist-translator to help compile/translate linguistics databases in the English and Chinese languages.
		If you do not have the right of abode in Hong Kong, you will need to be eligible for an employment visa.
		mail to: 610 Wing On House, 71 Des Voeux Rd C, Central, Hong Kong, attn: F. Wu Oratio Corporation is an equal opportunity employer.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/12/12-1504.html (306 words)

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