multilinguals in many places worldwide‚ and Hong Kong is one of these places. With a majority of the population being able to master a number of languages‚ code-switching‚ which is the alternate use of (more than) two languages by a bilingual (or multilingual) within a discourse‚ is undoubtedly a common and frequently occurring linguistic phenomenon in Hong Kong. 1.1 Significance of the case study Much previous research on code-switching in Hong Kong has focused on the two major and official languages
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Guest Talk Summary on “Love Hong Kong‚ Love Ocean Park Campaign – Turn Threats into Opportunities” Speaker: Ms. Vivian LEE Position: Marketing Director – Sales & Marketing Division Name of Company: Ocean Park Corporation Date of Guest Talk: 5th February‚ 2013 The talk being delivered by Ms. Vivian LEE was indeed very rewarding for me‚ it’s as good as the one delivered by her boss‚ Dr Allan Zeman which I’ve attended not long ago. Background The Ocean Park (Park) unveiled a master
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educations. As the technology improved‚ people may easier to get those related information from the web or others. It might be one of the fact leads people try to experience sexual intercourse before marry and even in underage. In the current Hong Kong society‚ this is not uncommon that there is an underage pregnancy victim in primary and secondary school. Most of the underage pregnancy victims are not know the right way to handle it. According to Mother’s Choice‚ there is around 1000 expectant mothers
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To a large extent‚ Hong Kong became a modernized society in the period of 1970 – 1997 according to the political and economic development of Hong Kong in this period. In terms of politics‚ political modernization is the transformation from traditional autocratic system to modern democratic system. The democratic system included the form of representative government‚ popular election and multi-party system and Hong Kong could mostly achieve it in the period of 1970 – 1997. First‚ there was democratic
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How to deal with the problem of cross-border student from Mainland China in Hong Kong In Hong Kong‚ the number of cross-border student from Mainland China has increased to 17 thousand in this year. However‚ in different aspect such as language‚ culture and household they are different from Hong Kong children. According to some surveys‚ about 80 percentage of the Hong Kong kindergarten teachers point out that ‘The level of speaking Mandarin is better’ is the advantage of the Mainlander. Nevertheless
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Different ending – A comparison between school bullying in Hong Kong and Japan’ School bullying is a type of bullying in which occurs in school. Bullying can be physical‚ verbal‚ or emotional. According to the report of Japan Daily in 2012‚ there are 144‚000 cases of school bullying within primary and secondary school which is two times more than the cases in 2011. The suicide rate even increases 44%. Meanwhile‚ refer to the survey of Hong Kong Family Welfare Society in 2012‚ there are 76.5% of teenage
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A General Review on the Culture of Hong Kong and Japan through the Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory Cultural dimensions theory‚ developed by Geert Hofstede’s‚ describes how a society’s culture affects the values of its members‚ and how these values relate to their behaviour. The theory proposed six dimensions: power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ individualism-collectivism‚ masculinity-femininity‚ long-term and short-term orientation‚ and the latest dimension‚ indulgence and self-restraint
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journalism in Hong Kong. As the term “market-driven” has suggested‚ journalism becomes business-oriented in Hong Kong. While some people consider market-driven journalism a good change‚ a lot of problems are also arisen due to this practice. In this paper‚ we are going to examine the advantages and disadvantages of market-driven journalism in Hong Kong to see whether citizens can benefit from it. Before talking about the pros and cons of market-driven journalism in Hong Kong‚ let us first give a
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culture at a remove: Filipina amahs discover and adapt to the Hong Kong style of family management 21st November‚ 2013 Karishma Sujan Wayne Duan Sunnie Zhang Anna Liu In this essay we discuss the cross-cultural differences in the household management of handling children between the Philippines and Hong Kong. Managing children in HK households In Hong Kong‚ Filipino maids make up 3% of the population. They are especially
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Introduction Hong Kong people have become more health-conscious in the past decade. In 2003‚ the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong had cruelly taken away the lives of 300 people and left us with traumatic experiences. After such a painful lesson‚ people have realised the vulnerability of life and the importance of health. Their consumption on healthy products has surged considerably as a result. In order to explore the lucrative market of healthy products‚ I have chosen Hung Fook Tong ( HFT) for my analysis
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