In 1836‚ the Chinese government undertook a major policy review of the opium trade. Lin Zexu volunteered to take on the task of suppressing opium. In March 1839‚ he became Special Imperial Commissioner in Canton‚ where he ordered the foreign traders to surrender their opium stock. He confined the British to the Canton Factories and cut off their supplies. Chief Superintendent of Trade‚ Charles Elliot‚ complied with Lin’s demands in order to secure a safe exit for the British‚ with the costs involved
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Submission Date: 21 March 2013 Based on the Hong Kong’s cultural traits of Geert Hofstede’s research‚ Hong Kong has high level of power distance index‚ medium level of masculinity‚ low level of uncertainty avoidance index and low level of individualism. I partly agree with the results. I only agree the first three of cultural traits of Hong Kong and I think Hong Kong is more likely to be medium level of individualism. About the power distance index‚ Hong Kong has high level result is quite proper.
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Problems First‚ INEDs are elected by controlling interests instead of minority shareholders when they are supposed to speak on minority interests’ behalf during board meetings. At the very beginning‚ INEDs are invited by executive directors. As many Hong Kong listed companies are dominated by family members‚ these INEDs are usually close friends of executive directors or controlling shareholders. Therefore‚ the actions of INEDs may not be in the best interests of minority shareholders. Second‚ despite
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One or two specific questions that came to mind during this reading are… The chapter talks about moving away from formal testing and towards overall assessment schemes‚ description-based and formative. This certainly has not been adapted into the Hong Kong school system. Do you think something like this could ever come about? If not is there a way to use this concept for our own use in classes or will it be redundant with the amount of testing that already happens? Explore – Something
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Rizal in Hong Kong 19 November 1891 In the evening Rizal arrived at Hong Kong. 26 November 1891 From Hong Kong Rizal sent to Manuel Camus in Singapore 20 copies of the Fili‚ 6of the Morga and 4 of the Noli. He gave Camus 25 percent commission for thebooks sold. 1 December 1891 He asked permission from his parents to join them in Manila in their sacrifices andat the same time‚ encouraged them to have a little endurance. He said: " I havelearned of the exile of four townmates to Jolo and of
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Tuyen Tran BAD 345-03 9/9/2014 Hong Kong Case Study Hong Kong Disney land was an optimistic business idea that was supposed to further propel the Disney brand into the Asian market. After a successful operation in Tokyo Japan Disney thought that the Hong Kong market would follow suit. However‚ Hong Kong Disney was not the success Disney had hoped and was losing costumers and money early on and was not seeing any profits. Disney was not sure why locals and tourists were coming to their
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Liberal Studies F4 Second term—Hong Kong Today Indicators used to understand poverty in HK Income Health Education Living conditions Employment Community / family support Section 1—Poverty Disparity / discrepancy between rich and poor Gini coefficient - Range from 0 to 1 0 = income distribution is absolute equal 1 = income distribution is absolute unequal Challenges faced by poor people Employment - usually contract staff‚ low income‚ lack labour protection
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Young people in Hong Kong cannot afford to buy their own houses Nowadays‚ many 80’S young people think that it is unattainable to buy a real estate. They just graduated from college or university‚ everything is hard in the beginning‚ the first few years of social work. They cannot afford to buy a real estate is a common case. To buy a real estate‚ Besides depending government policy‚ all depending how you savings and financial planning. Lots of 80’S young people use their salary to buy
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collected‚ accessed and transferred. It is important to safeguard the usage and collection of personal data as the business and technologies have been changing over time. In Hong Kong‚ Article 30 of the Basic Law states that ‘the freedom and privacy of communication of Hong Kong residents shall be protected by law.’ Furthermore‚ the Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap 486) (PDPO) is the essential law that protects the privacy of the individuals regarding to personal data. It was enacted in 1995
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Executive Summary In Hong Kong‚ it is very common that both parents need to have a full time job in order to support the expenses of a family therefore many of the children were not taking care by their own parents but only house maid or grandparents. They are not used to communicate with their own parents. As of the situation is becoming worst day by day‚ Marathon Sports have come up an idea which to create an event for parents and kids to join together. Marathon Sports will host a 5K marathon
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