Hong Kong expat population falls by 14 per cent as Britons move ...

Hong Kong expat population falls by 14 per cent as Britons move ...
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... overseas pay packages in recent years. Hong Kong was a British colony for 156 years before reverting to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.

Hong Kong won't allow UK civil unions
Gay.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Press reported. A former British colony, Hong Kong is home to more than 200,000 British nationals, the AP said. British consulates ...
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Don't play with fire, Mugabe warns foes
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... The one-time guerrilla commander co-led the 1970s fight against white minority rule in the then British colony of Rhodesia and was revered in his early days as ...
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Chris Abani: The Truthdig Interview
Truthdig - United States
... Abani�s home of Nigeria, a former British colony, is the continent�s most populous nation, and also one of the richest, due to its massive petroleum ...

HK fee deters `maternity tourists' from mainland
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... There are no pregnancy checks on women visiting Hong Kong from China on tourist visas who choose to give birth in the wealthy former British colony so their ...

Blair brands Zim a 'disgrace'
News24 - South Africa
... Mugabe has accused Blair of harbouring plans to "recolonise" Zimbabwe - which, as Rhodesia, was a British colony until 1980 - by using the opposition Movement ...
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World Briefing: Europe, Africa, Americas
New York Times - United States
... is 40 and seized power in a bloodless coup in 1994, said he would consider handing over power only after he had turned his tiny former British colony into an ...

Island mobs burn out Chinese
Times Online - UK
... Last night police and soldiers on the islands � a former British colony in the Pacific 1,777 miles northeast of Sydney � had abandoned the centre of ...
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