The Hongkong Electric Company (HEC; Chinese: 香港電燈有限公司) is one of Hong Kong's two main electricity generation companies, the other being China Light & Power...
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it was later renamed British Bank of the Middle East (BBME). In 1959, BBME was acquired by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.[citation...
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until 1906. In 1919, the Hongkong Electric Company started operation of the territory's second power station at North Point. In the 1920s, Ming Yuen Amusement...
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World Trade Centre Hong Kong (category Hongkong Land)
complex was developed by Jardines through its property development arm, Hongkong Land. It was later sold to Sun Hung Kai Properties. It is situated on land...
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Jardine Matheson (section Hongkong Land)
in Asia, and its subsidiaries include Jardine Pacific, Jardine Motors, Hongkong Land, Jardine Strategic Holdings, DFI Retail Group, Mandarin Oriental Hotel...
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Handover of Hong Kong (redirect from Handover of hongkong)
Hong Kong. Government Press. 1999. p. 354. ISBN 9789620202834. Hongkong Post (1996). Hongkong Post Annual Report. Government Press. p. 30. Continuity and...
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China Tower. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, a subsidiary of HSBC, has its head office in the HSBC Main Building. Bank of East Asia and Hang...
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Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) (redirect from Golden Triangle (south-east Asia))
1976. "Hong Kong underworld moving to America". Singapore Monitor. 1985. "Hongkong the centre of S-E Asia drug traffic". The Strait Times. 1983. "ACAN in...
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Hong Kong Tramways (redirect from Hongkong Tramways)
1902: Hongkong Tramway Electric Company Limited (香港電線車公司) founded in London. By end of 1902 under control of "Electric Traction Company of Hongkong Limited...
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HSBC Main Building is a headquarters building of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which is today a wholly owned subsidiary of London-based...
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British Hong Kong (redirect from British Hongkong)
officials, members of the Legislative and Executive Councils, chairmen of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong...
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Hong Kong International Airport (redirect from Hongkong Airport)
cargo facility which handles 35,000 parcels and 40,000 packages per hour. Hongkong Post operates the Air Mail Centre (AMC) and processes 700,000 packages...
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List of museums in Hong Kong (redirect from Hongkong museums)
Children's Discovery Museum 1/F China United Centre, 28 Marble Road, North Point, Central Hong Kong Monetary Authority Information Centre Two International...
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amused at my having got the island of Hongkong, and we think Victoria ought to be called Princess of Hongkong as well as Princess Royal." Despite the...
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One Island East is a skyscraper in Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The skyscraper is a commercial office building, rising 298.35 m...
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Victoria Harbour (redirect from Hongkong Harbour)
patronage. Other regular ferry services also operate in the harbour. The Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company used to operate numerous cross-harbour routes...
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Hong Kong Island (redirect from Hongkong Island)
Mid-Levels (East) Wan Chai Braemar Hill Chai Wan (Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital) Fortress Hill Mid-Levels (North) North Point Shau Kei Wan...
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Peninsula Hotels group based in Hong Kong. The Peninsula Hotel group's parent Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, who already owned 92.5% of the Chicago property's...
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Sourcebook for International Data Management". Grcdi.nl. Retrieved 2019-04-03. "Hongkong, China" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-20. Retrieved...
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ISBN 978-0-231-21101-7. ""Four Great Inventions of Ancient China" stamp issue". Hongkong Post. 2008-11-20. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. "Four...
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Pilot: The shores of the China Sea from Singapore Strait to and including Hongkong". Hydrographic office under the authority of the secretary of the navy...
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council agreed to proceed with project on a joint venture basis with Hongkong Land. Hongkong Land funded about 25 per cent of the project and retained ownership...
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Hong Kong flu (redirect from Hongkong flu)
travel or known contact with anyone with a history of travel from the Far East. More isolated cases soon followed, but it was not until September that larger...
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Highgate Cemetery (section East Side)
Mayor of London Douglas Lapraik, shipowner and co-founder of HSBC and the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Group Henry Lee, surgeon, pathologist and syphilologist...
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Charles Norris-Newman (section East Asia)
Victoria Hospital, Tianjin in May 1920. Who's who in the Far East, 1906-7, June. Hongkong, China mail. 1906. p. 251. Best, Brian (11 November 2016). Fighting...
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population of Hongkong were ... almost exclusively the offspring of these Tan-ka women." EJ Eitel, Europe in, the History of Hongkong from the Beginning...
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finest hotel east of Suez". Originally planned for a 1924 opening, the hotel opened on 11 December 1928 and was the successor of Hongkong Hotel. The Peninsula...
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estate in North Point, was built from 1983 to 1986 by Cheung Kong Holdings on the former site of North Point Power Station of Hongkong Electric. Chan,...
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University of Hong Kong (redirect from Hongkong University)
Development and Research, Hongkong Bank Foundation, UBC Alumni Association (Hong Kong), Dr. Lee Shiu Scholarships for Hong Kong and South-East Asia Academic Exchange...
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