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The Football Association of Hong Kong, China Limited is the governing body of association football in Hong Kong SAR of China. Its current chairman is Eric Fok and its chief executive officer is Joaquin Tam.
The Hong Kong men's national cricket team is the team that represents Hong Kong in international competitions. It played its first match in 1866 and has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1969.
The Hong Kong Sports Institute is a sports institute located in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is mandated to provide training to athletes, and also offers academic qualification in the field of sports training. The institute sponsors elite athletes and trains them as full-time employees, based on their talent and potential. The campus is located on reclaimed land on the bank of the Shing Mun River, next to the Sha Tin Racecourse.
Soi Cheang, also known as Bob Cheng or by his birth name Cheang Pou-soi, is a Macau-born Hong Kong filmmaker. Known for his contribution to action crime films, his works Motorway (2012), Limbo (2021) and Mad Fate (2023) earned him three Best Director nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards, which he won for the latter.
The Hong Kong women's national rugby union team represents Hong Kong in women's rugby union. They played their first international match in 1998 against Japan. They made their Rugby World Cup debut in 2017 in Ireland.
The Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Asia. Initially contested as a single tournament, the championship was expanded into a two-tournament series in 2014. The competition is sanctioned and sponsored by Asia Rugby, which is the rugby union governing body for the region.
The Asia Rugby Sevens Series is an annual series of regional rugby sevens tournaments run by Asia Rugby featuring national sevens teams. It has been held regularly since 2009 to determine Asia's best men's national team in the sport of rugby sevens.
Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung is a Hong Kong filmmaker and actor. The son of actor Eric Tsang, Tsang got his start in the Hong Kong film industry working for director Peter Chan after graduating from University of Toronto Scarborough in 2001. He made his acting debut in Men Suddenly in Black (2003) and directorial debut with Lover's Discourse (2010), sharing the directing credit with Jimmy Wan Chi-man. The duo was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best New Director at the 47th Golden Horse Awards.
A triad is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.
Kellett School is a British international co-educational school in Hong Kong and member of the Federation of British International Schools in Asia. Founded in 1976, the school's aim is to provide a British-style education to students in Hong Kong.
Elliot Ho Yat Leung is a composer from Hong Kong who broke into Hollywood in 2023. He was a recipient of the Huabiao Award, and is the youngest in the history of the awards to receive this recognition for music. His works have been performed by orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. Leung has collaborated with many notable conductors, namely Daniel Harding, Yu Long and Gerard Salonga. He is best known for his symphonic works, most notably his film scores for Operation Red Sea and The Battle at Lake Changjin as well as his Symphony No. 1 "The Metaverse". He was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022. As of November 2023, his films have grossed $2.2 billion USD worldwide.
The 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests were a series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the largest series of demonstrations in the history of Hong Kong.
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) is an international, cross-party alliance of parliamentarians from democratic countries focused on relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), and specifically, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It was established on June 4, 2020, on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. The alliance comprises over 240 members from 27 legislatures and the European Parliament. Each legislature represented takes turns to chair the alliance on a rotating basis. Its purpose is to create a coordinated response to China on global trade, security and human rights.
The United States government applies economic sanctions against certain institutions and key members of the Chinese government and its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), certain companies linked to the People's Liberation Army (PLA), and other affiliates that the US government has accused of aiding in human rights abuses. The US maintained embargoes against China from the inception of the People's Republic of China in 1949 until 1972. An embargo was reimposed by the US following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. From 2020 onward, the US imposed sanctions and visa restrictions against several Chinese government officials and companies, in response to the persecution of Uyghurs in China, human rights abuses in Hong Kong and Tibet, military-civil fusion, support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and fentanyl production.
Mocha Diva is the stage name of Jay Venn, a Filipino drag queen, based in Hong Kong, who competed on season 2 of Drag Race Thailand.
Tonyee Chow Hang-tung is a Hong Kong activist, barrister and politician. During the crackdown by authorities on the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which began in June 2021 and was mainly based on national security charges over the Alliance's annual vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Chow was cast into the limelight, having become the convenor of the group after the arrest of leaders Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho in April. In December 2021 and January 2022, Chow was convicted respectively for inciting and taking part in an unlawful assembly on occasion of the vigil in 2020, and for organizing the vigil in 2021, and sentenced to a total of 22 months in prison. A trial date for further national security charges against Chow has not been set as of 10 November 2022. By that time, observers considered her to be possibly the most prominent remaining dissident voice in Hong Kong.
Greater Bay Airlines Company Limited (GBA), commonly known as Greater Bay Airlines, is a Hong Kong-based carrier established in 2020. The company's inaugural passenger flight was conducted in July 2022.
Louise Wong Tan-ni is a Hong Kong actress and model. She was born in Shandong, China, then she moved to Hong Kong at a young age. She is best known for her role as Cantopop singer and actress Anita Mui in the 2022 biographical musical drama film Anita, which earned her Best New Performer winning and Best Actress nomination at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Events in the year 2023 in Hong Kong.
Argo is a bar in Hong Kong.
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