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43 unusual facts about Hong Kong


2009 flu pandemic in Hong Kong

The man had developed a fever after arriving in Hong Kong, and was then isolated in Princess Margaret Hospital, the hospital designated to handle swine flu cases.

A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton

A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton (粵音韻彙) is a book written by Wong Shik-Ling (黃錫凌) within a few years before being published in Hong Kong, 1941.

Archbishop of Hong Kong

The Bishop's House, located in Central, is the office and official residence of the Archbishop.

Argyle Street Camp

Today there are no memorials of any kind on the site of the camp, which is just to the south of St Teresa's Hospital.

Automated Systems Holdings Limited

Automated Systems (HK) Limited was founded in Hong Kong in 1973 and was listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited under the name of Automated Systems Holdings Limited (“The ASL Group” or “the Group”) (Stock Code: 771) in November 1997.

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

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.

Chen Hsong

Chen Hsong Holdings Limited was established by Dr. Chiang Chen in Hong Kong in 1958.

CityWalk

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

Douban

One notable example is the ban on merely mentioning the name of Victoria Park in Hong Kong where the memorial gathering for the 20th anniversary was held, in the fear that it may lead to sensitive discussions.

Fuk Li

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

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.

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 Sevens

On 28 March 1976, clubs from Indonesia, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Japan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Fiji participated in the first Hong Kong Sevens Tournament at the Hong Kong Football Club in Happy Valley sponsored by Rothmans' Tobacco and Cathay Pacific.

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.

On the other way, a network of 20 internationals schools in Hong Kong run by the English Schools Foundation provides UK curriculum for IB seeking pupils.

Islands District

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

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.

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.

Kwai Chung Hospital

Located near Princess Margaret Hospital, it provides 1372 psychiatric beds and serves the population of Kowloon, Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi, Tsuen Wan, Tung Chung and Outlying Islands.

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.

St. Agnes Kouying Tsao Catholic Church

St. Agnes was built in response to the growing religious demands of Chinese Christian immigrants flooding into the Markham area from places like Hong Kong and Mainland China.

St. Stephen's college incident

Stephen's college massacre (聖士提反書院大屠殺) involved a series of acts of extreme cruelty committed by the Imperial Japanese Army on 25 December 1941 during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong at St. Stephen's College.

Theodore Hamberg

In 1852, Hamberg met Hong Xiuquan's cousin Hong Ren'gan, who had been separated from the rebellion and fled to 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.

Wong Tape

Benjamin Wong Tape OBE JP (26 December 1875 – 16 June 1967) was a merchant in New Zealand and Hong Kong.

He received his education at Victoria College in Hong Kong and, after his father's death in 1891, at Otago Boys' High School.

Wukan

It has a population of approximately 13,000 residents, and is located approximately 120 km east of Hong Kong.

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.


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.

Adhu

The film, that has Aravind, a newcomer, Suha, Kazan Khan and Vijayan in supporting and Abbas in a cameo role, is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong-Thai-Singaporean film The Eye, which was remade later in the United States under the same title and in Hindi as Naina, starring Jessica Alba and Urmila Matondkar in the lead roles respectively.

Argyle Street Camp

Argyle Street Camp was a Japanese World War II Prisoner-of-war camp in Kowloon, Hong Kong which primarily held officer prisoners.

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.

Balram Chainrai

Balram Chainrai is a Nepalese based businessman that was born in Okhaldhunga District, eastern Nepal and migrated with his family to Hong Kong with his British Gurkha Army father and brought up in Hong Kong and that holds a British passport, who formerly owned Portsmouth Football Club.

Bee Cheng Hiang

Starting as a market stall in 1933 in Singapore, the company has expanded its operations to countries such as Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea, Philippines and China.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

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.

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.

Cheshire Home

The Cheshire Home, Sha Tin (沙田慈氏護養院) was founded by the Hong Kong Cheshire Home Foundation in 1991 and is currently under the management of the Hospital Authority.

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.

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.

Claudio Reyna

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

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.

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.

Gopinathan Ramachandra

In October 2012, Gopi is among the national team’s recruits for the friendly against Hong Kong at Mong Kok Stadium, Mong Kok, Hong Kong.

Green Drinks

Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski, Paul Scott, Ian Grant and Yorick Benjamin, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 400 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Manila, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Puerto Rico and Lebanon.

Heilind Electronics

The company further expanded internationally in 2012, first purchasing distributor Kotek Eletro Eletronica Ltda, based in São Paulo City, São Paulo, Brazil, and then later that same year opening offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Suzhou and Dongguan, China.

Hong Kong Note Printing

In October the same year, the Government sold 10% of the company's issued share capital to each of the three note-issuing banks in Hong Kong (total 30%), namely The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, the Standard Chartered Bank (now Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong)), and the Hong Kong Branch of the Bank of China (now Bank of China (Hong Kong)).

Hui Cheung-ching

Hui Cheung-ching, SBS, JP (4 September 1942, Puning, Guangdong, China – 6 January 2005, Hong Kong) was the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1998–2004 for the Import and Export constituency.

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.

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.

Leon McCarron

He studied Film at the University of Kent, and subsequently set off on a 14,000 mile bicycle ride from New York to Hong Kong.

Line 2, Wuhan Metro

The configuration for the two stations is similar to that of Mong Kok and Prince Edward stations in Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway.

Macau Daily Times

The newspaper, like all press in Macau (and Hong Kong), are protected by the Basic Law and Press Law, which upholds the freedom of the press in the enclave and restricting government regulation of the media.

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.

P.T.O. II

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

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.

Robert Ribeiro

Ribeiro quickly rose through the ranks, and was appointed Judge of the High Court in 1999, promoted to the Court of Appeal (High Court) as a Justice of Appeal in 2000, and a Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal the same year.

SARS coronavirus

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

Seven great singing stars

After the Communist victory in 1949, there began a large migration of people from Shanghai to Hong Kong, and the Communist Party of China also denounced mandopop as Yellow Music, a form of pornography, which effectively ended this period in Shanghai.

Shatoujiao Subdistrict

Shatoujiao is a bustling metropolis in comparison to Sha Tau Kok in Hong Kong (which is within the Closed Area), due to the development of special economic zone.

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 Snake King's Child

Due to Winai Kraibutr's presence in the cast, the film was marketed in Hong Kong and other Asian markets as Ghost Wife 2 in an attempt to cash in on the popularity of the 1999 Thai ghost film Nang Nak (Ghost Wife), which Winai had starred in.

Tsing Yi

The Department of Health operates two general out-patient clinics on the island in Tsing Yi Town.

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.

TVB Jade

It broadcasts 24 hours a day, with a wide range of entertainment-led programming, such as comedy, anime, variety shows, popular drama and chat shows, and together with its sister Hong Kong English station, TVB Pearl, is broadcast from TVB City at 77 Chun Choi Street in Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate in Tseung Kwan O, in the Sai Kung District, which is in the Eastern region of Hong Kong's New Territories.

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.

Val Royal

Scheduled to go to Hong Kong's Sha Tin Racecourse to run in the Hong Kong Mile Val Royal developed a quarter crack that saw him sidelined him until March 2 of 2002 when he returned to Santa Anita and finished fourth in the Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap.