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  2. Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    Hong Kong[ e] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities [ f] 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 ...

  3. Siobhán Haughey - Wikipedia

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    Siobhán Bernadette Haughey SBS ( / ʃəˈvɔːn ˈhɔːhi / shə-VAWN HAW-hee; [ 5][ 6] Chinese: 何詩蓓; Cantonese pronunciation: [hɔ˩ si˥ pʰuj˩]; [ 4] born 31 October 1997) is a Hong Kong competitive swimmer. She became the first Hong Kong swimmer to win an Olympic medal and the first Hong Kong athlete to win two Olympic medals in any ...

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    Snooker is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets. First played by British Army officers stationed in India circa 1875, the game uses twenty-two balls (pictured) – a white cue ball, fifteen red balls, and six other balls collectively called "the colours".

  5. do many people speak english in h.k.? - Hong Kong Forum

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    hi there. i can confirm a good 50% of the people speak english. all the streets are signed in english and chinese. and best thing is the kcr (train) and mtr (underground) has a automated service saying. the next stop is tsim sha tsui... it will then repeat in cantonese and also in manderin. you wont have a problem!!!

  6. University of Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    The University of Hong Kong ( HKU) is a public research university in Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong . Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. [ 7] Today, HKU has ten academic faculties and English is the main medium of instruction and assessment.

  7. Hong Kong English - Wikipedia

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    Background. English is one of two official languages in Hong Kong – the other being Chinese ( Cantonese) – and is used in academia, business and the courts, as well as in most government materials. Major businesses routinely issue important material in both Chinese and English, and all road and government signs are bilingual.

  8. Hongkongers - Wikipedia

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    The terms Hongkonger and Hong Kongese are used to denote a resident of Hong Kong, including permanent and non-permanent residents.According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word Hongkonger first appeared in the English language in an 1870 edition of The Daily Independent, an American-based newspaper. [17]

  9. Hong Kong English pop - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Hong Kong English pop ( Chinese: 英文歌) is a genre of music consisting of English-language songs that are made, performed and popularised in Hong Kong. It is known as simply English pop by Hong Kongers. The height of the English pop era in Hong Kong was from the 1950s to mid- 1970s. [1]