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Hong Kong Journal (470 words) |
 | None of the doom and gloom predictions about Hong Kong's political fate once Chinese sovereignty was established have come true, writes Frank Ching, a Hong Kong-based journalist and commetator, and its basic freeedoms have been retained. |
| Hong Kongs common law legal system and the concept of judicial independence have come under great pressure since 1997, writes Danny Gittings, a barrister and former journalist who is now a professor specializing in Hong Kongs constitution law at the University of Hong Kongs School of Professional and Continuing Education. |
| Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty has kept its basic strengths and has reason to be optimistic about the futurepartly because it is in Beijings own interests to act with restraint, writes Sir Robin McLaren, a former British ambassador to China and leader of the British team that negotiated the handover terms. |
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Hong Kong - encyclopedia article about Hong Kong. (7379 words) |
| The liberation of Hong Kong in 1945 was celebrated at the Cenotaph in Victoria with the raising of the Union Flag and the Flag of the Republic of China. |
| Hong Kong is 60 km to the east of Macau on the opposite side of the Pearl River estuary. |
| Hong Kong's climate is subtropical and prone to monsoons. |
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