Hong Kong English

the mainland does have some degree of capitalism, Hong Kong especially exemplifies this. From 1842 to 1997, the British were in control of Hong Kong. When it did rejoin China in 1997, it did so with the agreement that for 50 years after it rejoined China, Hong Kong would keep its capitalist economic system and voting system (bbc.com). The island 's companies made almost twice the amount of money that was made on the mainland since 2012. Hong Kong is the main center for investment in China.…

Lee Kuan Yew believed that Singapore, primarily dominated by the Chinese would always be at the disadvantage if it is under a Malay majority country. The second critic towards Lee Kuan Yew was when he made English as the main language in Singapore. He strongly believed that mastering of English is a must for Singapore to facilitate international trading. The Chinese society in Singapore criticized Lee that he stifled Chinese culture. However, he had also made Chinese language as the mother…

Introduction In this paper the following subject will be outlined: ‘What are the effects that the opium war brought about to China’s social and economic Evolution?’. We will start with describing China’s social and economic structure and the events that have led to the first Opium War in China followed by the second Opium War. After this we will take a look at the social and economic disruption these events have brought onto the Country. Paper Information Course 1: The business Environment in…

Jimmy Choo is a Malaysian fashion designer. His real name is Choo Yeang Keat. Jimmy Choo was born in Penang, Malaysia in 15 November 1952 to Zhou family, similar surname with a China’s famous premier Zhou Enlai and the popular Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat who is the actor in the Oscar award movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. They are from the same family clan which is the Zhou clan family. The surname was wrongly spelled in his birth certificate as “Choo” instead of Chew in Penang Hockkien…

TRISSY NGUYEN 000751185 COMN-152 A CULTURE STAR One of the best time I felt privileged in Canada was when I dressed in Ao Dai to go to the church. Ao Dai is the traditional costume of Vietnamese people, and it is also one of the sets of clothes that I extremely like. Therefore, I often wear Ao Dai to go to the church. It happened on that Sunday as I wore Ao Dai to go to St Mary's Cathedral Calgary, in which most of Canadians attend. After the Mass, the Catholics went to the front lobby of the…

suffrage, is the right to vote for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country.Where universal suffrage exists, the right to vote is not restricted by sex, race, social status, education level, or wealth. This year, voters in Hong Kong went to the polls this month and chose about hundreds of local spokespeople in the first election, especially since worry about China’s influence over the electoral process set off monumental protests and conflict…

Interviewer: Today we have the pleasure of meeting with the esteemed healer who might one day control the healer Torre, a tower filed with the best healers our continent has to offer. So Yrene we can start with an easy question, How did you get to the healers place? Yrene: After I left home I planned to travel to the coast work up some money and take a ship to the southern continent to start becoming a healer, but I ended up stuck in a small city off the coast for a few years because I could…

Holla-Fresh Pty. Ltd. (HF), is located at Whites Road, Tantanoola, South Australia and is currently owned in a partnership by brothers, Ian and Mark Lines. The Lines brothers established the business in 1993 and began by creating their own markets. HF has since grown into an independent and flourishing private company with strong affiliations with supermarkets around Australia and has over 60 employees. HF’s ongoing success is evident through its expansions and consistent quality of culinary…

The Discourse communities (DC) is not a new vocabulary in this world, it begin at when society exist in the world. There are some tools could analyze DC has been proposed by Gee, a “a member of the National Academy of Education”(“James Gee.”). He claims that people who have similar interests, symbol, acting or beliefs could be in a same DC, and there are eight tools that he proposed to definite a DC, they are “social language”, “social identity”, “intersexuality”,” Discourse maps”,” kits”,…

resemblance to reality, let along to the media censorship in China. Yet that assumption could not be more wrong. Fahrenheit 451 symbolizes the reality of censorship that many in China live with during political unrests. But first, try to imagine living in Hong Kong with the following…