Background: Occupied by the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was formally ceded by China the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the 19th century. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on 19 December 1984, Hong Kong became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 1 July 1997. In this agreement, China has promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be imposed on Hong Kong and that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the next 50 years.
August 3rd 2008Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon Truth be known, with Ross gone we both felt a little lost. Well it was to be expected I suppose, after all prior to his visit it was almost 10 months since we last saw him and we've been away from th ... 26 photos[full story]
August 4th 2008Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon I met an Austrian woman eating street food and she's in Hong Kong working as a logistics and design person for the equestrian events for the Olympics. I'd noticed all of the jockey and horse billboard ... [full story]
July 31st 2008Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon For some reason best known to Kev at the time, he insisted that we should have two weeks in Hong Kong - with the passage of time he's now got no idea why he made that decision! Earlier in our travels ... 58 photos[full story]
July 17th 2008Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon Hello all, well, we have some more free Wi-fi so time for another installement of our blog!
The last week or 10 days has been dominated by cities, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore. We left Johann ... 15 photos[full story]
July 10th 2008Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon Salut a tous!
Ca nous fait plaisir de vous ecrire de Hong Kong ou nous sommes arrives apres 35 heures de voyage. Tout commence avec une navette gratuite depuis strasbourg jusqu'a frankfurt. 4 he ... 6 photos[full story]
June 29th 2008Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon After flying in a holding pattern for an hour and landing in the tail end of a typhoon it was time to wipe of my cold sweats and get off the plane.
Getting to the hostel was a snap, just jump on a ... 15 photos[full story]
June 28th 2008Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon Well, it's 1:30 in the morning and I should be in bed since I have to get up in 5 hours to come home! But I wanted to put in one last blog before coming home and I doubt I could sleep anyways. It's be ... [full story]
June 14th 2008Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon Ok, ok we said we weren’t going to do blogs for places we have already been to...that has gone out the window due to the fact we went on a shopping trip to Hong Kong, bought a new camera and jus ... 32 photos[full story]
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