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Hong Kong is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945; British administration resumed after the surrender of Japan. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As one of China’s two special administrative regions (the other being Macau), Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of "one country, two systems".
Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, the territory has become one of the world's most significant financial centres and commercial ports. It is the world's tenth-largest exporter and ninth-largest importer. Hong Kong has a major capitalist service economy characterised by low taxation and free trade, and its currency, the Hong Kong dollar, is the eighth most traded currency in the world. Hong Kong is home to the second-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, the highest number of billionaires of any city in Asia, and the largest concentration of ultra high-net-worth individuals of any city in the world. Although the city has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, severe income inequality exists among the population.
Hong Kong is a highly developed territory and ranks fourth on the UN Human Development Index. The city has the largest number of skyscrapers of any city in the world, and its residents have some of the highest life expectancies in the world. The dense space led to a developed transportation network with public transport rates exceeding 90 percent. Hong Kong is ranked 4th in the Global Financial Centres Index.
Lanterns been blown about at Hachiman-gu shrine at Kamakura in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan.
Canon 7D 70-200 2.8L @ 200mm f5 1/500 ISO400
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Meet the 10 Women Who Will Stop at Nothing
By Kanya D’Almeida
UNITED NATIONS, March 14, 2015 (IPS)—
On Apr. 6, 2013, Nadia Sharmeen, a crime reporter, was assigned to cover a rally organised by Hafazat-e-Islam, an association of fundamentalist Islamic groups in Bangladesh whose demands included a call to revoke the proposed National Women Development Policy.
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Nadia Sharmeen, periodista bangladesÃ. Crédito: Kanya D’Almeida/IPS
Diez mujeres que no se detienen ante nada
Por Kanya D'Almeida
NACIONES UNIDAS, 17 mar 2015 (IPS) - A la periodista Nadia Sharmeen le pidieron el 6 de abril de 2013 que cubriera una marcha organizada por Hefazat-e-Isla, una asociación de organizaciones islamistas de Bangladesh, entre cuyas demandas se destacaba revocar la PolÃtica Nacional para el Desarrollo de las Mujeres, y las cosas no salieron bien.
(www.ipsnoticias.net/2015/03/diez-mujeres-que-no-se-detien...)
1950's asian lamps orginal paint and wire, the shades need alot of work a thrift store find in Victorville Ca.
"Hindoos, Ceylonese, Persians and Burmese make up the population of Mysterious Asia. They conduct shops in a street of Calcutta; they dry and roll tea leaves in a tea house of Ceylon; they live in a village of strange huts constructed of straw, bamboo and tropical leaves, typical of Burmah; they drive sharp bargains in the market place of Teheran. The manufactures, the ceremonies, the festivals, the outdoor and indoor life of the countries mentioned are represented. Even the architecture throughout is reminiscent and suggestive. The dome and minarets of the Taj Mahal are presented, together with the Rain Sipri at Almiabad and the Kutch Minar of Delhi. Gold brocade weavers, pottery makers, Benares brass makers, Lascar wood artists carry on their industries in the presence of visitors. Curious Indian carts, elephants and dromedaries, donkeys and sedan chairs are ready for those who wish to try them. Old relics of the golden temples of Rangoon are on exhibition. One of the outdoor features is a rajah festival in which gorgeously caparisoned elephants are driven by coolies in their liveries of white. Carvedcars holding members of the court are drawn by richly decorated oxen. Other features are a Brahma festival, a wedding procession, and the annual sacrificial feast of India. In an Asiatic theatre are given the Nautch dance, the jar and castanet dance and other Oriental amusements."
THE FOREST CITY with introduction and text by Walter B. Stevens and photographs by William H. Rau, was
published by the N. B. Thompson Publishing Company (1904). THE FOREST CITY contains the official
photographic views (all black & white, most 8"x10" in size) of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which
was held in St. Louis April 30, 1904-December 1, 1904. The series provides photographs of most major
structures and attractions of the 1904 Fair (each photograph is accompanied by approximately one paragraph
of descriptive text). The photographs were taken for the most part by William H. Rau, official
photographer of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, organizer of the 1904 Fair.
The photographs were issued so many per week while the Fair was in progress. Often a particular structure
or attraction will be featured in more than one photograph issued in a particular week, so it would be
wise to examine all the photographs from a particular week to be sure all images of the object of interest
have been viewed.