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  Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island is the island where the original settlement of the Hong Kong territory, Victoria, was located.
It is the second largest island of the territory (the largest being Lantau Island) and is the historical, political and economic center of Hong Kong.
Districts of Hong Kong located on the island:
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ho/Hong_Kong_island.html   (61 words)

  
  Hong Kong - MSN Encarta
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 /encyclopedia_761561507/Hong_Kong.html   (2134 words)

  
 Southern District, Hong Kong - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is located in the southern part of Hong Kong Island.
The Southern District faces the South China Sea at the south, and is backed by hills and reservoirs, designated as Country Parks, at the north.
The eastern half of the district is semi-rural, with some of Hong Kong's most popular beaches.
www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Southern_District,_Hong_Kong   (178 words)

  
 THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG
At the start of the 21st century, the HKSAR Government undertook a review of Hong Kong’s long-term development strategies, partly to cope with the changes and capitalise on the opportunities arising from reunification with the Mainland, and partly in response to the many challenges of globalisation and the emergence of a knowledge- based economy.
Hong Kong has set itself on course to become the centre for innovation and technology in East Asia — a cyber city in the cyber century.
The Hong Kong section of the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Corridor is a 3.5-kilometre dual three-lane carriageway spanning Deep Bay from the north-western New Territories of Hong Kong to its boundary with Shenzhen.
www.info.gov.hk /info/hkbrief/eng/future.htm   (1029 words)

  
 Stanley, Hong Kong at AllExperts
After the annexation of Hong Kong in 1842, the British made Stanley the administrative centre for a while, before moving to the newly founded Victoria City north of Hong Kong Island.
Stanley was the location where the British garrison in Hong Kong was defeated by the advancing Japanese troops in December 1941.
* Tin Hau Temple (Temple of the Queen of Heaven), built in 1767, is one of the oldest temples in Hong Kong.
en.allexperts.com /e/s/st/stanley,_hong_kong.htm   (778 words)

  
 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The University of Hong Kong (Traditional Chinese: 香港大學; Simplified Chinese: 香港大学; pinyin: Xiānggǎng Dàxué) is an English-language medium university and the oldest tertiary institution in
Hong Kong College of Medicine, which was founded in 1877.
Growing with Hong Kong: HKU and its Graduates - The First 90 Years was published by the University Press in 2002 as an impact study about HKU's gradates in different field of Hong Kong.
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/The_University_of_Hong_Kong.html   (1294 words)

  
 Hong Kong Association of Southern California
Hong Kong is undergoing tremendous change as a result of the mainland's rapidly developing economy, and from a legal expert's point of view, such change bodes well for Hong Kong's judicial system as a whole.
United States District Court Judge Ronald S.W. Lew was the guest speaker of the HKASC's April 14 Breakfast Briefing at the Jonathan Club, where he shared his views on recent legal developments in Hong Kong with an audience of local law professionals and business leaders.
Hong Kong's system is, after all, of the "one country, two systems" concept that ties it to Beijing, and this linkage is what legal experts and scholars such as Lew are carefully monitoring.
www.hkasc.org /hongkongfocus_JudgeLew.htm   (671 words)

  
 Hong Kong Travel Guide Complete List
Hong Kong Travel Guide : Buddhism was first introduced to China from India in the 1st century AD.
Because Hong Kong is home for so many people from every corner of the earth, it has representatives from all the major religions.
When visiting Hong Kong if you are staying in central be sure to take the Star Ferry to Kowloon in the late afternoon enyoy a drink at the intercontinental hotel lounge and watch the lights go on across victoria harbor in Central.
www.excelloz.com /Travel_guide/Hong_Kong.html?keytag   (710 words)

  
 Ocean Park Hong Kong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ocean Park, Hong Kong - Ocean Park () is a theme park in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island.
Hong Kong Science Park - The Hong Kong Science Park () is a science park located in Pak Shek Kok, New Territories, Hong Kong.
It is close to the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Ma Liu Shui and is on the Tolo Harbour waterfront.
china.vvvvvv3.com /oceanparkhongkong.html   (720 words)

  
 Shouson Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Shouson Hill is a residency area in the Southern District of '''Hong Kong'''.
There is a rumour spreading around that the government of Hong Kong may be building a pet store where one of the realtor offices once stood but, this is just mere gossip and may not be true.
If you don't know already, Victoria Peak or simply "The Peak" is the highest point on Hong Kong Island and the 11th highest in the entire Hong Kong Peninsula (Hong Kong, Kowloon, Lantau Island, and the New Territories).
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Shouson_Hill   (1096 words)

  
 Hong Kong travel guide
Hong Kong (Heung Gong in Cantonese, Xianggang in Mandarin, meaning "fragrant harbour") has the big city specials like smog, odour, 7 million elbows and an insane love of clatter and the city.
Kowloon and the New Territories are on a peninsula of the Chinese mainland, on the northern side of Victoria Harbour; Hong Kong Island is on the southern side of the harbour facing Kowloon.
Hong Kong Island, the busy financial and commercial centre with its high skyscrapers, has a lot to offer: shops, bars, headquarters from companies and, for those who feel like it, a handful of culture namely a few museums and some sights.
www.world66.com /asia/northeastasia/china/hongkong   (726 words)

  
 Hong Kong Hotels
Hong Kong is a shimmering star in the world of commerce.
The Harbour Plaza Hong Kong is on the waterfront towards...
Although twice the size of Hong Kong Island and the largest island in the bay, Lantau Island with a population around 20,000, is still undeveloped.
www.asia-hotel.net /hong-kong   (480 words)

  
 Southern District Council
The Southern District is located in the southern part of Hong Kong Island with Big Wave Bay to the east, Pok Fu Lam to the west.
Murray House, in particular, was one of the oldest buildings in Hong Kong, originally built in the Central and Western District and dismantled in 1982 when its bricks were removed piece by piece for later reconstruction in Stanley.
In the Southern District on Hong Kong Island, there are a total of four country parks, namely the Pok Fu Lam Country Park, the Aberdeen Country Park, the Tai Tam Country Park and the Shek O Country Park.
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk /south_d/english/dchighlights.htm   (1050 words)

  
 See You in Asia 2006 | About Hong Kong
Hong Kong became an integral part of China in 221 BC, but it was not until the Song Dynasty that the port flourished in the trade of silk and pottery.
Hong Kong Island is the glitzy big brother of Kowloon - a tightly packed, towering paean to market capitalism that hasn't been dented one jot by Chinese rule.
Hong Kong's cuisine is renowned for its exotic fusion of Eastern and Western flavors along with a wide variety of culinary delights.
www.seeyouinasia.com /hong_kong.html   (2126 words)

  
 Hong Kong Holds Sand Sculpture Competition
Hundreds of local sand sculptors and their counterparts from Japan October 29 gathered at Shek O Beach, in Southern District of Hong Kong, to show their creativity and skills in the Hong Kong Sand Sculpture Competition.
Demonstrating the creators' ingenuity and imagination, dozens of inspiring sand works centering on the theme of "Hong Kong Now and Then," "Environmental Protection," "Spirit of the Olympics" and "the Era of Information" were a feast for the eyes of beach-goers.
A total of 117 teams took part in the event, with two teams in the international exchange division, 48 teams in the family division, six teams in the corporate division, 30 teams in the school division and 31 teams in the open division.
www.china.org.cn /english/CAS-e/3338.htm   (176 words)

  
 South Horizons (Ap Lei Chau) - Cagapedia
South Horizons is a private residential estate established by Hutchison Whampoa located in Ap Lei Chau in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island.
Transportation facilities is fairly accessible, as in all of Hong Kong in general.
There was a talk of having an MTR line along the Southern District of Hong Kong and South Horizons is identified as one of the stations.
www.cagape.com /cagapedia/?topic=south-horizons   (384 words)

  
 Hong Kong Travel Guide
Hong Kong is simply one of the most exciting cities in Asia.
Hong Kong has shopping plazas (as they are known in Hong Kong), markets and pedestrian streets crammed full of shops - with hundreds of signs
Hong Kong has a tropical monsoon, cool and humid in winter, hot and rainy from spring through summer, warm and sunny in autumn.
www.asia-hotel.net /travel-guide/hong-kong/index.htm   (943 words)

  
 Hong Kong Ocean Park - fun and adventure for friends and family | China Hong Kong Travelguide
Hong Kong Ocean Park is a theme park located in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island.
Some of the popular attractions of Hong Kong Ocean Park are the Giant Panda exhibit, butterfly garden, the huge shark tank, a three-storey aquarium and numerous rides for the adventurous.
Hong Kong Ocean Park was originally built with generous donations from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club and opened its doors 1977.
www.china-hongkong-travelguide.com /hong-kong-ocean-park.html   (798 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Search
Kong The Southern District, the southern...southern part of
Kong After a slump caused by the regionwide Asian...began in 1997,
Kong 's economy has been temporarily on the rebound.
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 Ocean Park - Hong Kong - a Wikia wiki
Ocean Park (Traditional Chinese characterChinese: 海洋公園; Pinyin: Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán) is a theme park in the Southern District, Hong Kong of Hong Kong Island.
As being one of the major tourist attractions in Hong Kong and Asia, it currently attracts over 4 million visitors every year.
Ocean Park Hong Kong was the first institution in the world to have success in artificial insemination of bottle nose dolphins, and developed numerous new breeds of goldfish, proving the standard of its laboratories.
hongkong.wikia.com /wiki/Ocean_Park   (621 words)

  
 Hong Kong Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Hong Kong is East Asia's most extraordinary city.
Surprisingly, the bulk of it is still farming land or protected country parks, while most of the population is crammed into Kowloon, on the peninsula's southern tip, and on Hong Kong Island.
Hong Kong Island offers not only traces of the old colony – from English place names to ancient trams – but also superb modern architecture and incredible cityscapes of towering buildings teetering up impossible slopes.
www2.hawaii.edu /~lian/com437/final/hongkong.html   (372 words)

  
 Hong Kong Island - Southern District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is a floating restaurants in Aberdeen harbour, as an icon in Hong Kong, it is a modern dining place and premier tourism.
It is one of the biggest entertainment place in Hong Kong, Including the mobile game, the whole world which stimulates most has the scale the coral reef aquarium - sea hall, as well as the sea theater, hundred birds occupy, the butterfly room and the sea Tao hall, panda garden.
It is the first seacoast protectorate in Hong Kong, its unique seabed terrain, the deep water area has a color to be riotous must makes the reef petraia park, has bred the diverse marine life
www.society.hk /sd.html   (174 words)

  
 Hong Kong Attractions, Culture and More
- The Government House was the residence of the Governor of Hong Kong from 1855 to 1997.
Government House was previously the official residence and office of 25 of Hong Kong's 28 Governors...
This is partly due to the spectacular views of the city and bay: one can see Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula from the Peak Tower at Victoria Gap...
www.magicaljourneys.com /HongKong/hongkong-interest.html   (380 words)

  
 News @ Cisco: Hong Kong Cyberport Builds World-Class Network Infrastructure Using Cisco IP Technology
HONG KONG, September 21, 2004 - Looking beyond the boundaries, Hong Kong Cyberport realized the value of an IP network by enabling high-speed wireless and wired communications, and a full range of next generation technology applications built on Cisco® Internet Protocol (IP) technology.
The first in Hong Kong to deploy a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network, Cyberport is providing a "bandwidth freeway" for its tenants, local IT companies and professionals to develop, test, and run a wide variety of next-generation applications in information technology (IT) and digital content creation, management and delivery.
Cyberport - Hong Kong's IT Flagship - is a US $2 billion (HK$15.8 billion) landmark project managed by Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited and wholly owned by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
newsroom.cisco.com /dlls/global/asiapac/news/2004/pr_09-21.html   (885 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Stanley, Hong Kong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Stanley (赤柱;) is a little village on the south of Hong Kong Island and part of the Southern District, Hong Kong.
Stanley is famous for its beach with BBQ areas, Stanley Market[?], the 2001 opened Stanley Plaza with the Murray House, which was transferred from Central, Hong Kong.
Once in Central, the facade has been put in a warehouse about 1985 and has been rebuilt in Stanley and opened in 2000.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/st/Stanley,_Hong_Kong?title=Stanley_Market   (108 words)

  
 Hong Kong Island -- fotop.net photo sharing network
Hong Kong University is the first university in Hong Kong.
Sir Cecil's Ride is one of the hiking routes in Hong Kong Island and it runs from Quarry Bay, Braemar Hill to Tai Tam.
Situated in Southern District of Hong Kong Island, its weather condition is the best and you can find a lot of beautiful scenes here.
www.fotop.net /bigfatcat/Hong_Kong_Island   (488 words)

  
 NationMaster - Statistics on Hong Kong. 1381 facts and figures, stats and information on Hong Kong economy, crime, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Occupied by the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was formally ceded by China the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the 19th century.
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.
In this agreement, China has promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be imposed on Hong Kong and that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the next 50 years.
www.nationmaster.com /country/hk-hong-kong   (217 words)

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