Something British Made in Hong Kong is a live album by composer Graham Collier featuring a six-part composition written especially for the groups British...
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began with the British takeover of Hong Kong Island under the Convention of Chuenpi in 1841, during the First Opium War between the British and the Qing...
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of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China was at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rule in the...
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Hong Kong independence is the notion of Hong Kong as a sovereign state, independent from the People's Republic of China (PRC). Hong Kong is a special administrative...
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"Hong Kong Garden" is the debut single of English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released as a single on 18 August 1978 by Polydor Records...
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and Pakistanis. In British Hong Kong era, there were many British Indian serving for police officers (in Cantonese, 差人) in Hong Kong. 2. Ban1 zai2 (賓仔)...
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alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland...
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Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is a national law of China on Hong Kong national security passed in 2020. It is implemented in Hong Kong...
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British nationality law as it pertains to Hong Kong has changed over time since it became a British colony in 1842. Hongkongers were given various nationality...
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Lamour in the setting of Hong Kong under British Rule. This was the seventh and final installment in the Road to ... series and the only one made without...
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known as Hong Kong Telecom (Chinese: 香港電訊; Cantonese Yale: Hēunggóng dihnseun), is one of the largest telecommunications companies in Hong Kong. It has...
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HSBC (redirect from Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank)
its origin to a hong trading house in British Hong Kong. The bank was established in 1865 in Hong Kong and opened branches in Shanghai in the same year...
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Bruce Lee (redirect from The Fastest Fist in the East)
promoting Hong Kong action cinema and helping to change the way Chinese people were presented in American films. Born in San Francisco and raised in British Hong...
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Triad (organized crime) (redirect from Triads in Hong Kong)
Another theory posits that the word "triad" was coined by British officials in colonial Hong Kong as a reference to the triads' use of triangular imagery...
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XFEST Hong Kong, Hong Kong Team vs Inter Miami CF was an exhibition football match between Hong Kong League XI and Inter Miami held in Hong Kong Stadium...
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The Hong Kong National Party was a localist political party from 2016 to 2018 in Hong Kong. It was the first political party in Hong Kong to advocate...
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Graham Collier (category British male jazz composers)
Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, on leaving school Collier joined the British Army as a musician, spending three years in Hong Kong. He subsequently...
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of two major political ideologies of the Hong Kong, with the other being liberalism. Since the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, conservatism has...
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One country, two systems (redirect from Sovereignty of Hong Kong)
regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Deng Xiaoping developed the one country, two systems concept. This constitutional principle was formulated in the early...
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Kiri T (category CS1 Chinese (Hong Kong)-language sources (zh-hk))
under Warner Music Hong Kong. As one of the leading artists in Hong Kong who specializes in Hong Kong English pop, she often tops Hong Kong English song charts...
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analyst and retired investment banker based in Hong Kong. Webb graduated in mathematics from Exeter College, Oxford in 1986. From 1981 to 1986 he was also an...
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John Lee Ka-chiu (redirect from John Lee (Hong Kong politician))
7 December 1957) is a Hong Kong politician and former police officer who is the fifth and current Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Originally a police officer...
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Edward Snowden (redirect from Edward Snowden in Hong Kong)
On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong after taking medical leave from his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii, and in early June he revealed thousands...
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Jackie Chan (redirect from Chan Kong-sang)
Fang Shilong SBS MBE PMW (born Chan Kong-sang; 7 April 1954), known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong actor, director, writer, producer, martial...
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Cantopop (redirect from Four Heavenly Kings (Hong Kong))
became associated with Hong Kong popular music from the middle of the decade. Cantopop then reached its height of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s before...
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Leslie Cheung (category Suicides by jumping in Hong Kong)
April 2003), born Cheung Fat-chung, was a Hong Kong singer and actor. One of the most influential cultural icons in the Chinese world, Cheung was known for...
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Fallen Angels (1995 film) (category Films set in Hong Kong)
Fallen Angels is a 1995 Hong Kong neo-noir crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. It features two intertwined storylines—one tells...
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films of all time and one of the major works of Asian cinema. In 1962 British Hong Kong, Shanghainese expatriates Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, and Su Li-zhen...
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the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Central Mid-Levels district, Hong Kong. It was established by the French De La Salle Christian...
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friendly in Hong Kong in 1978. In the past, Hong Kong players tended to play under the Republic of China team. In 1985, Hong Kong, then a British dependent...
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