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  Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The highest point in the territory is Tai Mo Shan, at a height of 958 metres (3,142 ft).
Groups such as the Hakka and Teochew are also substantial.
Since the British handover to China, a new group of immigrants from mainland China have increased the ethnic diversity of the Chinese population and intensified the usage of Mandarin in the territory, in addition to the indirect effects of closer commuication with mainland China, where Mandarin is the official language.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hong_Kong   (6861 words)

  
 Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia Studies Group
Grabowsky Volker, "The Thai and Lao ethnic minorities in Cambodia: Their history and fate after decades of warfare and genocide," in Thomas Engelbert and Hans-Dieter Kubitschek (eds.), Ethnic minorities and politics in Southeast Asia, Frankfurt am Main (etc.): Peter Lang [in press].
Ladwig Patrice, "The mimetic representation of the dead and social space among the Buddhist Lao," Tai Culture, 7.2 (2002).
Schliesinger Joachim, Ethnic groups of Laos : vol.
tlc.ucr.edu /laos/publications.html   (4752 words)

  
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Old Tai Dam (Black Tai) and the meanings of ambiguous words in modern Thai elaborate expression.
Implications of the retention of proto-voiced plosives and fricatives in the Dai Tho language of Yunnan province for a theory of tonal development and Tai language classification.
In Studies in Tai and Mon-Khmer Phonetics and Phonology in Honour of Eugenie J.A. Henderson, 247-260, edited by Pranee Kullavanijaya et al.
www.elearning.nrct.net /re4.php   (877 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Disputes - international
Armenia supports ethnic Armenian secessionists in Nagorno-Karabakh and militarily occupies almost one-fifth of Azerbaijan - Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) continues to mediate dispute; border with Turkey remains closed over Nagorno-Karabakh dispute; traditional demands regarding former Armenian lands in Turkey have subsided
Tutsi, Hutu, and other conflicting ethnic groups, political rebels, and various government forces continue fighting in Great Lakes region, transcending the boundaries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda
Tutsi, Hutu and other ethnic groups, political rebels, and various government forces continue fighting in Great Lakes region, transcending the boundaries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2070.html   (2929 words)

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