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Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) is a free, non-profit news website based in Hong Kong. It was co-founded in 2015 by Tom Grundy, [2] [3] who believed that the territory's press freedom was in decline, to provide an alternative to the dominant English-language news source, the South China Morning Post , and to cover the pro-democracy movement .
Telephone numbers in Hong Kong are mostly eight-digit. Fixed land line numbers start with 2 or 3, mobile (cellular) phone numbers with 5, 6, 7 or 9, pager numbers with 7 and forwarding service with 8 [citation needed]. Since the end of 1989, there have been no area codes within Hong Kong. The telephone number for emergency services – Police ...
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,822,497 articles in English. From today's featured article. Leucippus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE. He is credited with founding atomism, with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void ...
Ambulance Services in Hong Kong are provided by the Hong Kong Fire Services, in co-operation with two other voluntary organisations, the Auxiliary Medical Service and the Hong Kong St. John Ambulance . Public hospitals have charged HK$100 for treatment at accident and emergency departments since 2002. About 2.2 million use the service each year.
The term surrender of fugitive offenders agreement is used in place of extradition treaty to signify Hong Kong's non-sovereign status. [1] As a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China since July 1997, Hong Kong is authorised by the Central Government of China to enter into such agreements, according to Article 96 of the ...
The following is a list of fire stations of the Hong Kong Fire Services. All but one of Hong Kong's fire stations are located in Hong Kong (Shenzhen Bay is located across the border in Shekou, Shenzhen) Hong Kong Command West Division Name Photographs Location Notes/References Kennedy Town Fire Station (堅尼地城消防局) 6 Kennedy Town New Praya, Kennedy Town Aberdeen Fire Station ...
Hong Kong government was a minority shareholder for 20%. 1983: Cable and Wireless (Hong Kong) acquired 34.8% shares of HKTC from Jardine Matheson. 1986: Cable & Wireless also announced plans for an underwater optical fibre cable connecting Hong Kong with Japan and South Korea (a part of APCN), to become operational in 1990.
On 10 February 2018, at approximately 18:13 HKT, a Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) double-decker bus flipped onto its side on Tai Po Road in Tai Po, New Territories. The crash killed 19 people and injured 65. The incident, also known as the 872 accident ( Chinese: 872意外) after the number of the route the bus was traveling on, was Hong Kong's second ...