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43 unusual facts about Hong Kong


Americans in China

Since the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong, Americans have arguably surpassed the British as the major non-Chinese influence.

Beacon Hill School

Beacon Hill School, Hong Kong, an international and English Schools Foundation school in Hong Kong

Bill Tung

On February 16, 2006, Tung was admitted to St. Paul's Hospital on Hong Kong Island due to physical discomfort.

Blake Pier, Central

It was demolished in 1965, but the pavilion was preserved, dismantled and rebuilt in Morse Park in Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon as a park shelter.

The top structure of the pier was later transferred to the open-air oval theatre in Morse Park, in between Wong Tai Sin and Lok Fu, Kowloon.

Calpol

Calpol is a brand of children's medicine sold in the UK, Ireland, India, Cyprus, Hong Kong and the Philippines.

Central Ferry Piers, Hong Kong

The ferries mostly depart to Outlying Islands in the New Territories, with the exception of Pier 1 serving as a government pier, and ferries from Pier 7 going to Kowloon.

Chai Wan Station

The station is located at the junction of Chai Wan Road and Island Eastern Corridor, and it serves Siu Sai Wan and Chai Wan, a primarily residential and industrial town, and the bus terminus nearby has bus and minibus routes to Siu Sai Wan and Stanley, as well as the nearby residential developments.

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

CityWalk

Citywalk, Hong Kong, a shopping centre in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong

Criticism of Yahoo!

Yahoo! Holdings (the Hong Kong subsidiary of Yahoo) told the Chinese government that the IP address used to send the email was registered by the Hunan newspaper that Shi Tao worked for.

Diocesan Native Female Training School

The students were trained to be teachers of English and missionaries, and supposed to be future Christian wives of the graduates of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, the largest school under the Anglican Church.

Division of Bennelong

Secondly, the demographic has changed as well: since the early 1990s, Eastwood and surrounding suburbs have seen an influx of migrants from China, Hong Kong, South Korea and India, who are relatively affluent and conservative, but are sensitive towards political policies on immigration and multiculturalism.

Fuk Li

Mr Li was born in Hong Kong in 1953, and received his secondary school education in Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong.

Heng On Station

It also serves over 10 schools (including Renaissance College) and two sports centres - Ma On Shan Sports Ground and Heng On Sports Centre.

HKO

Hong Kong Observatory, the official weather forecast authority and meteorological agency of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Express Railway

Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Express Railway is a proposed cross-border railway offering three future distinct services, Hong Kong International Airport - Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport direct connection, Hung Shui Kiu - Qianhai cross border services and domestic service between Tuen Mun and Siu Ho Wan.

The Chep Lap Kok Link would connect HKIA and Lantau Island with Tuen Mun.

Hong Kong-United Kingdom relations

In the UK, the Hong Kong SAR is represented through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office at Grafton Street in London's Mayfair.

Hong Kong is one of the annual host on Commonwealth sports calendar, the rugby union Hong Kong Sevens tournament at the Hong Kong Stadium every March, and the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes every late October.

Islands District

The term Outlying Islands tends to refer to the islands of the Islands District.

Jackie Chan Chai-keung

He graduated from the Queen Elizabeth School and continued his study in civil engineering at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

James Summers

Summers studied foreign languages and classical literature on his own, and obtained a teaching position at St. Paul's College in Hong Kong in 1848 with hopes of becoming a diplomat in the future.

Junction Road

:For the street in Hong Kong, see Junction Road, Hong Kong.

Kai-to

They are usually used to serve remote coastal settlements in the territory's outlying islands.

Katong

Because the Katong people loved his laksa, it has come to be known as the Katong laksa throughout the world in Hong Kong and New York.

Kowloon Station

People can access the shopping mall Elements directly by using the escalators linking the station concourse and the mall.

Lugard Road

Densely shaded for most of its length, Lugard Road provides vistas of Victoria Harbour, distant islands, and densely packed city beneath.

Mong Kok Station

The station was named Argyle after Argyle Street, a major thoroughfare in its vicinity, during the planning stage of the MTR system.

No. 1 Commando

Following the end of the war, No. 1 Commando undertook garrison duties in Hong Kong.

Perry Link

After roughly one hour, he was allowed to enter Hong Kong, where he spoke at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club.

Pottinger County

Pottinger County was named in honour of the first Governor of Hong Kong Sir Henry Pottinger, first Baronet (1789-1856).

Professional Forum

In October 2012, the group formed the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong with other LegCo members from the pro-business sectors.

Sara and Dara dolls

100,000 of the dolls were made in the first round of production by a manufacturer in Hong Kong.

Social problems in Chinatown

In modern times, competing Asian street gangs and organized crime, such as the tongs and the Hong Kong-based triads, continue to plague the metropolitan Chinatowns worldwide where Triads have their operations, including London, United Kingdom; San Francisco, California; New York City, Sydney, Australia, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital at Sandy Bay

The Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital at Sandy Bay (Chinese: 大口環根德公爵夫人兒童醫院) is a pediatric hospital in Sandy Bay on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.

Viliame Satala

Satala's vast experience showed at the 2005 7s World Cup where he helped Fiji raise the Melrose Cup aloft at Happy Valley.

ViXS Systems

Research and Development facilities are located in Canada, the U.S.A., China and Hong Kong.

Wayne Wong

Wayne is a member of the Hong Kong, China Davis Cup team, he debut for Hong Kong at age 15 years 332 days in a reverse singles dead rubber against Thailand in an Asia/Oceania Zone Group II First Round tie at Victoria Park in February 1997.

Wong Tape

Wong Tape was a founding member of the Hong Kong chapter of Rotary International, and of the University of Hong Kong.

Yan-kit So

Born in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, she grew up in Hong Kong, where she graduated from University with a degree in history, and went on to acquire a DPhil at the University of London.

Ying Xiong Wu Lei

Ying Xiong Wu Lei (英雄无泪, lit. The Hero With No Tears) is a Hong Kong comic book adaptation of Gu Long's wuxia novel of the same name, illustrated by Ma Wing Shing.

Yuet Wai Kan

He did his medical training at Queen Mary Hospital, then went to USA for further study.


2013 Premier League Asia Trophy

Sunderland, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Hong Kong club South China competed for the title on 24 July 2013 and 27 July 2013 at Hong Kong Stadium in So Kon Po, Hong Kong.

Afnán

In the late 19th century the family established a large trading business based in Shiraz and Yazd in Iran, with offices in Beirut, Bombay, Hong Kong and 'Ishqábád.

Arthur D. Collins, Jr.

During travels that take them deep into the Amazon River rainforest, to two Caribbean islands, above the Arctic Circle, to the not-so-exotic independent Chinese territory of Hong Kong, and to Australia's outback, as well as several other mysterious locations in the United States, the boys meet a number of characters – some human, and some not, but all unforgettable.

Beijing-Kowloon Through Train

Services use the East Rail Line in Hong Kong, cross the boundary between Hong Kong and mainland China at Lo Wu and then continue along China's railway network via the Guangshen railway and the Jingguang railway to Beijing.

Cao Zhi

In 2002, Hong Kong's TVB produced the television drama, Where the Legend Begins, featuring Cao Zhi as the intelligent and compassionate protagonist.

Cerruti 1881

There are Cerruti 1881, 18CRR81 and Cerruti stores throughout the world in Milan, Cosenza, Madrid, London, Munich, Stockholm, Athens, Birmingham, Riyadh, Moscow, New York, Hong Kong, Taipei, Damascus, Jakarta, and Tokyo among other locations.

Chalmers Students' Union

Before the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong to China from the United Kingdom in 1997, the students' union wrote a request to the British Prime Minister asking if they could hire the whole of Hong Kong for a few minutes in connection with the transfer to China.

China Poly Group Corporation

Having its affiliated enterprises and projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Changsha, Tianjin, Harbin, Shenyang, Chongqing, Hainan, and Hong Kong etc., the Group Corporation has made significant achievements in capital scale, economic benefits, business management and system construction, characterized by professionalism, scale operation and optimal allocation of resources.

Chinese Egret

It formerly bred in Taiwan and the New Territories of Hong Kong although it is now only a non-breeding visitor or passage migrant to these countries.

Crown Records

# Hong Kong based Crown Records 娛樂唱片, starting in the early 1960s, produces and issues records of Cantonese opera and Cantopop mainly, Mandopop and Hong Kong English pop in few.

Cundall Johnston and Partners

Founded in Newcastle and Edinburgh, Cundall now has United Kingdom offices in London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester, with Australian offices in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide plus offices in Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cyprus in Paphos and Nicosia, Madrid, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest in Romania.

Damien Dernoncourt

He oversees an international team of 1500 individuals across the company’s facilities in Bali, Hong Kong, Bangkok and New York.

Daniel Heung

Daniel Heung (香灼璣) (December 1943 – July 2, 2011) was a Chairman of the Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education of Hong Kong.

Danielle Egan

Egan married Claudio Reyna, then a member of the United States national soccer team, in July 1997, one week after he attended the FIFA All-Star Game in Hong Kong and two weeks after the male U.S. team's World Cup qualifier at El Salvador.

Dean McKeown

Riding Collier Hill, McKeown won a number of major international races, including the 2005 Group 2 Gerling-Preis in Cologne, Germany, the C$2 million Grade 1 Canadian International at Woodbine Racetrack in Canada, and the HK$14 million Hong Kong Vase in Hong Kong, China.

Eva Nagorski

Because Eva's father, Andrew Nagorski, worked as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek, she has had an international upbringing, living in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn and Warsaw, and has travelled extensively.

Gubei, Shanghai

Gubei is best known as an enclave of East Asian expatriates in Shanghai, including those from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Hong Kong at the Commonwealth Games

Hong Kong competed at the Commonwealth Games (as well as British Empire & Commonwealth Games and British Commonwealth Games) as a British colony or dependent territory in 1934, then from 1954 until 1962 and from 1970 to 1994.

Hong Kong-style milk tea

This nickname is used in Hong Kong but less so in mainland China and overseas communities.

Interactive Brokers

(IB) is a U.S. based online discount brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich CT in the United States and with offices in Budapest, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, and Zug.

Internet in Romania

According to a top made by Bloomberg in 2013, Romania is ranked 5th in the world and 2nd in Europe in terms of internet connection speed, being surpassed by Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, while the United States is only the 14th.

John Jardine Paterson

Jardine Paterson was born into the family which had founded the Jardine Matheson company, although his branch of the family controlled Jardine, Skinner and Company of Calcutta, the Indian division of Jardines, rather than its main business based in Hong Kong.

Kai Ho

Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, was named after him and his son-in-law Au Tak, though he died in 1914, long before the idea of an aerodrome was first mentioned in 1925.

Lai Shin-yuan

Also present during the opening ceremony was John Tsang, Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong SAR.

Lantau Trail

The Yi O village area has protected wetland area and is one of the few habitats of Hong Kong's endemic and rare Romer's tree frog.

Mainland Chinese

At the time when Hong Kong was colonised by Great Britain, the colony first covered only Hong Kong Island, with a population of only around 6 000, most of whom were fishermen.

Milkis

Milkis launched in 1989 with a huge marketing campaign, notably with the appearance of Hong Kong movie star Chow Yun-fat in its TV commercials.

Mustafa Güngör

Güngör became the new captain of Germany's XV on 8 December 2009, after the retirement of the previous captain Jens Schmidt, and played his first game in this position four days later, against Hong Kong.

P.T.O. II

These forces are set up in territories such as India, Hong Kong, Borneo, New Zealand, and Canada.

Port of Huizhou

The Port of Huizhou is a natural coastal port located on Huizhou, Guandong, People's Republic of China, immediately east of Shenzhen and Hong Kong It opens into the Daya Bay.

Possession Point

It was developed in the 1980s and formed into a hotel and commercial complex, which is the site of the Hong Kong–Macau Ferry Terminal.

Radio Vilaverde Lda

Radio Vilaverde Lda (Chinese: 綠邨738台) is a Macau-based radio station serving Macau, and the nearby Chinese cities, such as Hong Kong, as well as Zhuhai and Shenzhen in Guangdong Province.

SARS coronavirus

Samples of the virus are being held in laboratories in New York, San Francisco, Manila, Hong Kong, and Toronto.

Shangqiu

This standing is greatly enhanced following the construction of the Beijing-Kowloon (Hong Kong) railway in 1996, which crosses with Longhai railway at Shangqiu.

Simon Willson

Traveling with a group of more than 20 performers and crew performing in 81 large nightclubs and discos in 33 Major Chinese cities including Hong Kong, Chengdu, Shanghai, Dongguan, Shenzen, Shantou, Guangzhou, Beijing and Harbin nearly all the way to Mongolia.

Suhaimi Yusof

Yusof was offered the role of maintenance guy Sulaiman Yusof in the sitcom Living with Lydia, starring alongside Hong Kong comedienne Lydia Shum Din-Ha.

Sumly Chan

Sumly Chan Yuen Sum (born in 1958 in Hong Kong), is a social worker and politician in Hong Kong, who is a member of the Civic Party and a district councillor in Tsuen Wan District Council (Lei Muk Shue East).

Teng Bunma

A 1996 article ("Medellin on the Mekong") in the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review, by United States journalist Nate Thayer, described Teng Bunma as a significant figure in Cambodia's international drug-smuggling trade.

The 'W' Files

The 'W' Files (衛斯理) is a 2003 Hong Kong fantasy-adventure-mystery television period drama serial based on Ni Kuang's novel series Wisely, starring Gallen Lo as Wisely.

Tin Tsz Stop

It is located on the ground near the Tin Shing Road (Chinese: 天城路), near Tin Tsz Estate (Chinese: 天慈邨), in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District, Hong Kong.

To Serve and Protect

In addition there are some episodes featuring trips to Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and Memphis, Tennessee.

Transportation in the Philippines

After offering low fares to domestic destinations, Cebu Pacific launched its international operations on November 2001 and now flies to Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei.

Tuen Mun Town Plaza

It is at the hub of transport links and networks which include bus services to various parts of Hong Kong, including express services to Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, West Rail to Kowloon and the Light Rail serving the western New Territories.

United States–Hong Kong Policy Act

He condemned Democratic Party chairman at the time Martin Lee who supported the act, and said Lee was "bad mouthing" the Special Administrative Region in front of the international audience.

Ursula Hall

Residents of Ursula Hall welcomes undergraduate and postgraduate students of all nationalities, religions and cultures—residents are from dozens of countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.

William Poy

He served with The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (the Volunteers) during World War II as Lance Corporal messenger and worked for the Canadian Trade Commission in Hong Kong.

Win's Entertainment

Subsidiaries of Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd include production companies such as Ocean Shores Video (Hong Kong) Co Ltd which was once a powerful film company formed since 1970.