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    night repair serum just sells $62, about 390 RMB; but it can be sold in 1050RMB, which means this product price in China is three times in US. Price. For this reason, more and more Chinese customer likes buying luxury goods overseas, especially in Hong Kong and Macau or other travel

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    The State Council of the Peoples Republic of China violates the Hong Kong Basic Law by purposefully creating a pro-Beijing majority in the Hong Kong Election Committee and thus denies citizens participation in the election of their Chief Executive. This social injustice forms part of a larger social justice struggle whereby the autonomy of Hong Kong is slowly being eroded by Central Government control. Hong Kong citizens have long been discontent with the Chinese Central Government over concerns

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    Peter Chan’s film, Comrades: Almost a Love Story, focuses on the relationship development between two Mainland Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong, Xiao Jun and Li Qiao. Xiao Jun is a naive Northerner of China who speaks Mandarin, while Li Qiao is from Guangzhou, a Cantonese speaking region of Southern China. Both foreigners of Hong Kong share the dream of making a better life, in which Xiao-Jun’s goal is to be able to make enough fortune to marry his fiance, Xiao Ting, while Li Qiao’s goal is to become

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    Estimated Future State The “Spillovers” and “HKSAR valuation” tabs in the attached Excel workbook show how we calculated the value of the project itself, its spillover effects to the HK economy, and the overall net benefit to Hong Kong. We essentially did a traditional discounted cash flow analysis. We had to make assumptions and estimations of the future value of variables such as the HK inflation rate, tourist growth rate, etc. Based on historical data, analyst projections, and market research

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    There was a song singing, “In ancient east there is a dragon/ its name is China/ in ancient east there was a group people/ they are all descendants of Dragon” (Wang). The dragon can fly to wherever it wants so that it decided to take a rest in the street of Bellaire in Houston of the United States in 1870. The dragon left its 250 descendants here and formed a so-called Chinatown here. At the beginning, Chinese people did not have the sense of local American dream because of language problems and

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    focus on our Hong Kong operations and deal a lot with our philosophy of helping everyone do better, so let’s look at the details of Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a free port which thrives on free trade. Its open door policy has enabled it to become one of the world 's largest trading economies and an international financial and commercial centre serving the Asia-Pacific region and the Mainland of China. The free trade policy means Hong Kong maintains no barriers to trade. Thus, Hong Kong does not charge

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    “Of Cantonese Women, the Hill, and the Center for People of All Races” El Centro de la Raza’s Food Banks becomes a site of immigrant place making of primarily Latino and Chinese descended Cantonese people. Unpacking the social interactions that are occurring at the food bank speak to the pathways of community that begin, shift, and reify the participation in gastro-politics and symbolic commensality, as a means of immigrant place making. THE REVOLUTIONARY OCCUPATION OF BEACON HILL SCHOOL El Centro

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    China and Hong Kong. Without questioning, one of the most influential incidents happened during this period of time was Hong Kong’s reunion with China in July 1997; it transformed Hong Kong from a colonial dependent territory to a Chinese administration region. The local Hong Kong people felt disoriented of their futures and many of them came to the question of their national identities; it is because the different political and educational system between Hong Kong and China makes the local Hong Kong

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    Mainland Students in Hong Kong                                                                                                  By now, it's been 13 years since Hong Kong was handed over to China. Since 2002, Hong Kong universities began to recruit students in mainland China. Since then, there have been more and more mainland students rushing to Hong Kong to pursue undergraduate or postgraduate studies. According to the statistics of Hong Kong's government

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    Hong Kong Business Environment Hong Kong business environment is very special compared with other cities in Asian, or even all over the world. Hong Kong was British colony for more than 150 years which has left significant influence on the population and history of Hong Kong, especially the legal and educational foundation. Unlike long-term orientation held in Chinese, Hong Kong people tend to have a short-term orientation, i.e. short-term

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