When talking about the most popular culture in Hong Kong‚ the first things that come up to my mind are the tea restaurants. Unlike those Cantonese teahouses‚ which can also be found in Guangdong‚ tea restaurants are pretty unique in Hong Kong. In the election of ‘things that best represent Hong Kong’ held on the Internet by RTHK in 2004‚ ‘Tea restaurant’ got the champion with 1930 votes. Meanwhile‚ ‘Pineapple bun with butter’ and ‘Coffee with tea’‚ typical food and drink provided in tea restaurants
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Arianna Goff Dunnavant Per. 4 APWH 3-8-12 Japan / china response towards western penetration Although China and japan are similar when it comes to cultural independence‚ japan however‚ was interested in technological advancements influenced by the westerners causing interaction‚ while china stayed isolated causing a power shift‚ meaning Europeans were able to gain power and control over most of Asia and Africa during the nineteenth century. For 250 years‚ japan stayed isolated and independent
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we usually called SEs‚ does not have a universal definition. Generally‚ it is a business to achieve specific social objectives‚ such as creating job and training opportunities for the handicaps in our society. According to the survey conducted by Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited‚ there are only a few SEs made profit under the financial support of government‚ as they claimed that the government have not provide sufficient financial support to them. However‚ can we just determine
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According to scientists‚ there has been human activity on Hong Kong since the Neolithic and Paleolithic eras. However‚ the earliest recorded European man to travel there was a Portuguese man named Jorge Álvares who did not travel there until 1513. For many thousands of years‚ Hong Kong was subjected to the rule of the dynastic China. However‚ Britain gained the land of Hong Kong after defeating the Chinese army in the Opium Wars. Today‚ Hong Kong has a democratic government modeled very much after
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Oasis Hong Kong Airlines: The First Long Haul‚ Low Cost Airliner in Asia Team A Scott Burgoyne‚ Marvin Cook‚ Randy Collins‚ Amanda Baldwin‚ Jason Odle and Cynthia Hicks-Leeper Everest College On-line Business Policy and Strategy MAN 4764-1001 Instructor Monya Ashe February 11‚ 2012 Introduction Oasis Hong Kong Airlines was founded in February 2005 by Rev. Raymond C. Lee‚ and his wife‚ Priscilla H. Lee had they survived; this month would have marked their seven year anniversary. Unfortunately
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nowhere to dispose our waste‚ ______. You may be dubious that there is still a long way to this nightmare; however‚ according to the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department‚ the three major strategic landfills in Hong Kong will be saturated in the mid to late 2010s. In other words‚ our landfills are going to be filled up within ten years. It implies that Hong Kong indeed has an imminent waste problem associated with the sturation of the landfills. At present‚ we depend merely on landfills to
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If I was he manager of the concerned organization‚ I would use three ideas to turn the dissatisfied customers to become satisfied ones. First‚ Compensate for guitar expenses. In the case‚ the guitar was crafted by Spanish master guitar maker Antonio Marin Montero who only made twenty guitars each year.And the guitar cost one hundred thousand HK dollars but we only compensate 234 HK dollars. So we need to have a reasonable compensation.For example‚ we can find the guitar maker to make a same guitar
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Is it hard to live in Hong Kong? A psychologist said that stress is a joint result of weak knowledge base plus and in sufficient support. In a highly competitive society like Hong Kong‚ everyone must work very hard for keeping a foothold. Moreover‚ Hong Kong’s Gini Coefficient has consistently at the world’s top rank‚ which implies the city’s income gap have a great disparity‚ despite a high living standard. That is how the stress comes up and let us take a close look at the issues. First of
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Enjo-kōsai or compensated dating has become a worrying social problem in Hong Kong nowadays. Compensated dating is a practice which originated from Japan where older men give money and/ or luxury gifts to women as the compensation for their companionship‚ and possibly sexual favors. Literally‚ compensated dating is different with prostitution as it involves non-sexual activities such as shopping‚ karaoke singing and friend making but the latter straightly means trade of sexual services for money
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Air Pollution Observation between Hong Kong and Chongqing Part 1 General Picture of Hong Kong and Chongqing and Meaning of Comparing A whole host of similarities between Hong Kong and Chongqing make this thesis’s aiming to exploit air pollution and approaches governments take more pragmatic and meaningful. Among the aforementioned similarities‚ the geographical ones could be treated as lurking causes of air pollution and other relative issues. Hence‚ this part is intended to showcase a general
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