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Portal:Hong Kong

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The Hong Kong Portal

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million residents in a 1,114-square-kilometre (430 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth-most densely populated region in the world.

Originally an area of farming and fishing villages, Hong Kong is now one of the world's most significant financial centres. Hong Kong is the world's third-ranked global financial centre behind New York City and London, the ninth-largest exporter, and the eighth-largest importer in the world. Its currency, the Hong Kong dollar, is the ninth-most traded currency globally. Home to the third-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, Hong Kong has the second largest number of ultra high-net-worth individuals. The city has one of the highest per capita incomes, although severe income inequality still exists among the population.

Hong Kong has the most skyscrapers of any city in the world. Housing is consistently in high demand, making the city of Hong Kong the most expensive residential property market in the world and one of the most expensive cities in the world. It is also one of the most visited cities in the world. (Full article...)

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Lam Tin is an area in the Kwun Tong District in southeastern New Kowloon, Hong Kong. Lam Tin is primarily a residential area but also hosts a major transport interchange and several shopping attractions. Lam Tin was once a large field in the vicinity of Kowloon Bay. During the Song dynasty, it was a site of salt production. Since the 1980s, a number of housing estates were constructed in Lam Tin.

A high-density residential district built on a coastal knoll, Lam Tin hosts residential housing estates, transport infrastructure, mass-transit facilities, shopping centres, recreational areas and many other buildings and structures. It is home to 130,000 residents, making up a fifth of Kwun Tong District's population. (Full article...)

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Lai at the U.S. Capitol in 2019

Lai Chee-ying (Chinese: 黎智英; born 8 December 1947), also known as Jimmy Lai, is a Hong Kong businessman, politician, and political prisoner. He founded the clothing retailer Giordano, the media company Next Digital (formerly Next Media), and the newspaper Apple Daily. He is one of the main contributors to Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, especially to the Democratic Party. A British citizen since 1994, he was imprisoned in 2020 and his business operations shuttered under pressure from the Chinese government.

A prominent critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who met with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and National Security Advisor John Bolton during the Hong Kong protests of 2019–2020, Lai was arrested on 10 August 2020 by the Hong Kong Police Force on charges of violating the new national security law, an action which prompted widespread criticism. He was ultimately sentenced to 20 years in prison, a penalty Human Rights Watch called "both cruel and profoundly unjust" and Reporters Without Borders called bogus. As of September 2025, Lai remained imprisoned in solitary confinement at Hong Kong's Stanley Prison although this was at his own request to be segregated from other inmates, for reasons of his own. Lai regarded his imprisonment as "the summit of his own life". (Full article...)

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A panorama of the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon skyline at night, taken from Victoria Peak.
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  • ... that activist Joey Siu is the first US citizen to be declared a fugitive under the Hong Kong national security law?
  • ... that The Chinese in America documents how people in California, during the gold rush era, mailed their laundry to Hong Kong for cleaning?
  • ... that Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant winner Louisa Mak is a Cambridge law graduate?
  • ... that a Hong Kong porn actress once invited her cyberbullies to talk?
  • ... that G Affairs was presented at project markets in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, but rejected because it was deemed unmarketable in China?
  • ... that the newly opened shopping mall The Wai has Hong Kong's largest indoor bicycle parking lot?
  • ... that the 48th Hong Kong International Film Festival canceled the screening of a politically themed film due to the "inability to locate suitable copies", despite the film having been showcased three years earlier?
  • ... that Zhang Zhiyun, crowned "movie queen" in a newspaper poll in 1926, is reported to have died homeless in Hong Kong?

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