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Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China’s southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of the eponymous island, the Kowloon Peninsula, and the New Territories, along with several smaller islands. With 7.5 million residents in a 1,114-square-kilometre (430 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world.
Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, Hong Kong is now one of the world's most significant financial centres and commercial ports. Hong Kong is the world's third-ranked global financial centre behind New York City and London, ninth-largest exporter, and eighth-largest importer. Its currency, the Hong Kong dollar, is the ninth most traded currency in the world. Home to the second-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, Hong Kong has the largest number of ultra high-net-worth individuals. Although the city has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, severe income inequality exists among the population. Despite being the city with the most skyscrapers in the world, housing in Hong Kong is consistently in high demand.
Hong Kong is a highly developed territory and has a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.955, ranking eighth in the world and currently the only place in Asia to be in the top ten. The city has the highest life expectancy in the world, and a public transport usage exceeding 90 per cent. (Full article...)
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Demosistō () was a pro-democracy political organisation established on 10 April 2016 as a political party. It was led by Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow – former leaders of Scholarism, along with Nathan Law, former secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS). Scholarism and the HKFS were the two student activist groups which played an instrumental role in the 79-day occupy protests known as the Umbrella Revolution in 2014.
Demosistō advocated a referendum to determine Hong Kong's sovereignty with the goal of obtaining autonomy after 2047, when the one country, two systems principle as promised in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Hong Kong Basic Law is supposed to expire. It won a seat in the 2016 Legislative Council election with its 23-year-old chairman Nathan Law becoming the youngest candidate ever to be elected. In 2017, Law was disqualified from the Legislative Council over the oath-taking controversy and was imprisoned with Joshua Wong for the storming into the Civic Square during the Umbrella Revolution. After a series of disqualification of the Demosistō candidates, the party passed a resolution in January 2020 to abandon its advocacy for "democratic self-determination". After the passing of the Hong Kong national security law, the party's leadership resigned from their offices and the party disbanded on 30 June 2020. (Full article...)
Kacey Wong (born 1970) is a Hong Kong visual artist and educator – formerly Assistant Professor at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wong has received the Hong Kong Contemporary Arts Award by the Hong Kong Art Museum (2012), Best Artist Award (2010); and Rising Artist Award and Outstanding Arts Education Award (2003). Wong is politically engaged through his art, and is founding member of art-activist groups Art Citizens and the Umbrella Movement Art Preservation.
Wong emigrated to Taiwan in July 2021 due to the crackdown in Hong Kong under the national security law. (Full article...)
The following are images from various Hong Kong-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 1"Vase with floral scroll design", on show in Hong Kong Museum of Art (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 3Tong laus in Mongkok; While tong laus can be seen throughout Lingnan, they are especially common in Hong Kong. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 4Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island in the 1860s (from History of Hong Kong)
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Image 5Main building of University of Hong Kong; Being a former British colony, Hong Kong naturally has a lot of British architecture, especially in government buildings. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 6Mahjong table setup (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 7China Airlines Boeing 747 crash landed and ended up in the harbour. (from History of Hong Kong)
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Image 11The graffiti work of Tsang Tsou Choi, the "King of Kowloon" (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 12Inclusion and togetherness. Words on the ground, Yuen Long, HK (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 14Queueing for water in Hong Kong, July 1963 (from History of Hong Kong)
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Image 15By 1990, the Kowloon Walled City contained 50,000 residents within its 2.6-hectare (6.4-acre) borders. (from History of Hong Kong)
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Image 16Tsang Tai Uk in Shatin; It is also a distinctively Lingnan (Cantonese) building, being a wok yi uk. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 181888 German map of Hong Kong, Macau, and Canton (Guangzhou) (from History of Hong Kong)
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Image 19People honouring gods in a dajiao celebration, the Cheung Chau Bun Festival (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 21Flag of Hong Kong under British rule (from History of Hong Kong)
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Image 22Wing Lung Wai, a walled village in Kam Tin; Hong Kong indigenous people built walled villages to protect themselves from rampant privates between 15th to 19th century. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 23Japanese war criminals prepare for their transfer to Stanley Prison (from History of Hong Kong)
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Image 24Flag of Hong Kong under current Chinese rule (from History of Hong Kong)
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Image 25Pang uk in Tai O; Pang uks were built by Tanka people, who had the traditions of living above water and regarding it as an honour. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 26A statue of McDull, a Hong Kongers cartoon character; He is now known throughout East Asia. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 27Map of Bao'an (Po On) County in 1866. It shows that Hong Kong and Shenzhen used to be a part of Bao'an County in the Qing dynasty (from History of Hong Kong)
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Image 28Healthcare workers conducting mass COVID-19 testing in Jordan (from History of Hong Kong)
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Image 29The Chi Lin Nunnery adopted Tang-style architecture. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 30Golden Bauhinia Square on Christmas night; The square has a giant golden statue of the Hong Kong orchid. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 32A political advertisement written in Cantonese (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 33Lion Rock is also symbolic of Hong Kong. Hong Kongers has a term - "Beneath the Lion Rock" ( 獅子山下) - which refers to their collective memory of Hong Kong in the second half of the 20th century. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 34Happy Valley apartment blocks (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 36Westernised stores such as U2 are numerous. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 37A Mazu temple in Shek Pai Wan; It clearly shows traits of classical Lingnan style - pale colour, rectangular structures, use of reliefs, among others. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
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Image 39Hong Kong international airport was moved from Kai Tak to Chep Lap Kok. Photograph of Kai Tak taken the day after it closed. (from History of Hong Kong)
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