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Retrieved 1 July 2024. China's "Great Firewall" is one of the world's most comprehensive internet censorship regimes, preventing citizens from accessing websites like Instagram, Wikipedia and YouTube. ^ a b "China's Facebook Status: Blocked". ABC News.
Standard Mandarin. Hanyu Pinyin. Gǔgē. Google China is a subsidiary of Google. Once a popular search engine, most services offered by Google China were blocked by the Great Firewall in the People's Republic of China. In 2010, searching via all Google search sites, including Google Mobile, was moved from mainland China to Hong Kong .
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 South China Morning Post ( SCMP ), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong -based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. [ 2][ 3] Founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remained Hong Kong's newspaper of record since British colonial rule. [ 4][ 5]: 251 Editor-in-chief Tammy Tam ...
In a Reuters Institute poll conducted in early 2021, Apple Daily was the fourth most-used offline source of news in Hong Kong, while its website was the second most-used among online news media in the city. [7] According to a survey conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Apple Daily was the third most trusted paid newspaper in 2019. [8]
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 ...
Hang Seng Bank Limited ( Chinese: 恒生銀行有限公司) is a Hong Kong-based banking and financial services company with headquarters in Central, Hong Kong. It is one of Hong Kong's leading public companies in terms of market capitalisation and is part of the HSBC Group, which holds a majority equity interest in the bank. [ 2]
Hong Kong written Chinese (HKWC) [1] is a local variety of written Chinese used in formal written communication in Hong Kong and Macao. [2] The common Hongkongese name for this form of Chinese is "written language" ( 書面語 ), in contrast to the "spoken language" ( 口語 ), i.e. Cantonese. [3] While, like other varieties of Written Chinese ...