Background Stats: compare key data on Hong Kong & India

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STAT	Hong Kong	India
Overview	<p>Once home to fishermen and farmers, modern Hong Kong is a teeming, commercially-vibrant metropolis where Chinese and Western influences fuse. </p> <p>The former British colony became a special administrative region of China in 1997, when Britain&#039;s 99-year lease of the New Territories, north of Hong Kong island, expired.</p> <p>Hong Kong is governed under the principle of &quot;one country, two systems&quot;, under which China has agreed to give the region a high degree of autonomy and to preserve its economic and social systems for 50 years from the date of the handover. </p><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-16517764">Full Article</a>	<p>The world&#039;s largest democracy and second most populous country emerged as a major power in the 1990s. It is militarily strong, has major cultural influence and a fast-growing and powerful economy. </p> <p>A nuclear-armed state, it carried out tests in the 1970s and again in the 1990s in defiance of world opinion. However, India is still tackling huge social, economic and environmental problems. </p> <p>The vast and diverse Indian sub-continent - from the mountainous Afghan frontier to the jungles of Burma - was under foreign rule from the early 1800s until the demise of the British Raj in 1947. </p><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12557384">Full Article</a>

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