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In the 1950s, there were many wealthy Chinese moved to Hong Kong illegally due to the civil war. After 1997, the SAR government launched a new migration scheme which allows 150 mainland residents move to Hong Kong every day. According to Census and Statistics Department, the percentage of net migration to total population increased is 71.5% in 2005. The problem of not enough housing estates for the rapid growth in population arosed. Other than that, the growing number of locals moved from rural…

where necessary. In Hong Kong, the reform of the holistic education system in 2005 has introduced the new academic structure for Senior Secondary Education (SSE) at incremental levels which aims at equipping students for meeting the diverse needs of the society by offering alternative pathways to professional development and career pursuit. (Chan, 2010) In 2012, Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) comprehensively replaced the two standardized exams, namely Hong Kong Certificate of…

Perhaps this is one of the most challenging adaptations to make due to the difficulty of the Chinese language. Many of the Chinese people are not proficient in English, which creates a communication barrier with the consumer. All of the Birchboxes come with an instruction pamphlet along with other useful make up tips in the English language. A translated set of instruction would need to be implemented for the new market. According to forbes.com on How To Crack The Chinese Market, it states that…

The Hong Kong protests, also known as the Umbrella Revolution, began in September 2014 when activists in Hong Kong started to protest outside the Hong Kong Government headquarters and in several major city intersections, mainly due to NPCSC’s decision of disallowing civil nominations in future elections. It has become a stunning peaceful civil disobedience movement, able to bring together thousands of protesters. Although some violent outbreaks have happened, this conflict should be mostly…

be able to fit in and learn more about the American culture instead of her heritage roots. The audience can then realize she might establish hate towards her mother for making her practice this language, her grandmother for not being able to speak English correctly, and her heritage. This hate makes the character be ashamed and does not want to be socialized with the stereotypes Americans make towards the…

The personal preference about the attraction for HongKong & Dubai The taste of people is just like the personality, no one has the exactly same compared to others. For me, there are parts I like and dislike both in HongKong & Dubai, for example: As foodie (likes tasting all kinds of food), the first thing I search for in a city is the food center. HongKong is recognized as a food paradise, but it is also a city that never sleeps( a paradise for people having fun). There are more than ten…

Max Weber is a philosophical idealist and he is one of the most well known contributors to the sociological and philosophical fields. Many of his ideas converged with or complemented Marx and Engel’s ideologies. Nevertheless, it did not prevent him from refuting certain aspects of their scholarly works when appropriate. In this essay, I am going to critically analyze and critique six of Weber’s points and ideas raised in Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory by Professor Zeitlin.…

Our main focal point is Hong Kong as head quarts with a trickle down system into neighboring cities. This process creates a logistics power-hub for transportation to future and neighboring expansion cites. Managers create an ethical precedence that gives rise to a strong ethical…

Hong Kong has just experienced the first legislative council election after the largest protest in the decade in the history of Hong Kong namely the “Umbrella Revolution”. In the fall of 2014, a large scale protest and street occupation happened in Hong Kong. The main highway the centre of the city were occupied by the protestors and their tent-filled base camp. The protest was incited by two student activist groups, Hong Kong Federation of Students and “Scholarism”. People were uprising to send…

this experience was being shared, because there was a pair of tickets. Travel also means change and I believe Jing-Mei was feeling that change as soon as she arrived in China. The first line of the story says, “The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong borders and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different.” The…