FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
HongKong religious leaders also have noted that the Basic Law provision that calls for ties between local religious organizations and their mainland counterparts to be based on "nonsubordination, noninterference and mutual respect" could be used to limit such ties.
HongKong's NPC delegates also are members of the Election Committee that chose 10 of the Legislature's 60 members in 1998 and 6 of the legislatures members during the year.
HongKong's Society for Community Organisation estimated that tens of thousands of women in HongKong, largely single women and widows from the mainland, are regularly subjected to the threat of violence, abuse, robbery, and sexual harassment by cohabitors.
Respecting court decisions from foreign courts is important because of the possibility that a judgment or award given in HongKong may have to be enforced in other countries such as Australia.
Structurally, HongKong'scourt system consists of the Court of Final Appeal, which replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the High Court, which is made up of the Court of Appeal and the Court of First Instance, and the District Court, which includes the FamilyCourt.
HongKong is by population the fourth largest metropolitan area of the PRC (see List of cities in China).
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