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Hong Kong [d] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities [e] in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated territories in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ...
Background. Following the imposition of the Hong Kong national security law in July 2020 by the Chinese Government, which exerts extraterritorial jurisdiction over all non-Chinese citizens, some pro-democracy dissidents fled Hong Kong due to possible prosecutions under the law.
The principal vernacular language of Hong Kong is standard Cantonese ( Chinese: 粵語, 廣州話, 廣東話, 廣府話, 白話, 本地話 ), [9] spoken by 88.9% of the population. It is used as a colloquial language in all areas of daily life, government, and administration.
The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as Little Red Book, is the must-have app for China's Generation Z - the 280 million people born between 1995 and 2010 - to explore Hong ...
May 11, 2024 at 9:22 AM. HONG KONG (Reuters) - Eight more Chinese cities have joined a scheme allowing their residents to travel to Hong Kong on their own, rather than as part of a tour group, as ...
Top ten drama series in ratings. The following is a list of TVB's top serial dramas in 2024 by viewership ratings. The recorded ratings include premiere week, final week, finale episode, and the average overall count of live Hong Kong viewers (in millions).
The Hong Kong Government first described the historic rainfall as "once-in-a-century", but then upgraded the narrative to "once-in-500-years", or a 0.2% chance. It caused uproar from the public as an attempt to deflect the blame, after the authorities were questioned and criticised for the preparedness for such an emergency.
Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of the Cantonese language of the Sino-Tibetan family.. Although Hongkongers refer to the language as "Cantonese" (廣東話), publications in mainland China describe the variant as Hong Kong dialect (香港廣東話), due to the differences between the pronunciation used in Hong Kong Cantonese and that of the Cantonese spoken in neighbouring Guangdong Province ...