Similar words: kongo, gingko, bangkok, thong, diphthong, long long ago, tong, pong. Meaning: n. formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world's leading commercial centers.
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181. His portraits of Vancouver and Hong Kong ring true and are so vivid that I wanted to return to each.
182. Hong Kong politicians called on Mr Major to end months of uncertainty by immediately appointing a new Governor.
183. Every province, every major city, has offices in Hong Kong.
184. They were dizzied by the sheer narcotic rush of Hong Kong.
185. The leading modern authority of Bridge v Deacons concerned a firm of solicitors in Hong Kong.
186. In the giant goldfish bowl that is Hong Kong, Mrs Chan's purportedly personal decision is being examined in microscopic detail.
187. The best example is the four new airports that have been, or are being, built in the Hong Kong area.
188. Hong Kong swirled with news of his whereabouts, all of it entirely speculative.
189. The package also angered many Hong Kong liberals who argued that the reforms did not go far enough.
190. The legal arrangements for the transfer are virtual carbon copies of those agreed for Hong Kong.
191. Hong Kong manufacturers depend almost entirely on export markets, many of which have been less willing to forgive and forget.
192. And talking of white collars ... all accountants in Hong Kong are already taking a position on 1997.
193. It is easy enough to point out what is wrong with Hong Kong environmentally but far from easy to find solutions.
194. Increasing demand for container port services in Hong Kong is adding some urgency to the need for expansion.
195. A reasonable measure, say Hong Kong critics[Sentence dictionary], among the currencies of countries of similar structure and similar wage levels.
196. More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
197. And what of the broader issues: 1997, Hong Kong and the art market?
198. Her home, she said, was in Hong Kong, but she hadn't been there since she was a child.
199. Hong Kong, by contrast, had no history, no past, only a fealty to the wrecking ball.
200. With this in mind the Hong Kong U24 squad will also become part of the national squad.
201. Colonial Hong Kong blossomed into an economic powerhouse: a capitalistic colony fueled by international investment and global banking.
202. He spends about 10 days each month back in Hong Kong, supervising projects in the works at his production company.
203. The sub-licensees paid a fixed fee, unrelated to their profits, to the taxpayer in Hong Kong.
204. Even pro-Beijing politicians in Hong Kong admitted that it had done his image no good.
205. Business is also booming in the Far East, though Hong Kong suffered from higher costs and increased import duties.
206. To go out in a Hong Kong typhoon is to experience an almost pleasurable madness.
207. As they worked, Loi kept glancing back towards the fishing-line we had been trailing since our departure from Hong Kong.
208. The image of Hong Kong was all business, gray suits, glass-walled towers.
209. Last year 6,652 boat people landed in Hong Kong, down from more than 34,000 in 1989.
210. This Board rejected both these submissions and held that the profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong.