When was the flag carrier of Hong Kong founded?
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Cathay Pacific Cathay Pacific () () is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline's operations and subsidiaries have scheduled passenger and cargo services to 180 destinations in 44 countries worldwide including codeshares and joint ventures. Cathay Pacific operates a fleet of wide-body aircraft, consisting of Airbus A330, Airbus A350, and Boeing 777 equipment. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Cathay Dragon, operates to 44 destinations in the Asia-Pacific region from its Hong Kong base. In 2010, Cathay Pacific, together with Dragonair (rebranded Cathay Dragon), carried nearly 27 million passengers and over 1.8 million tons of cargo and mail.
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Cathay Dragon Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd (Chinese: 港龍航空公司), operating brand as Cathay Dragon (Chinese: 國泰港龍航空) and previously as Dragonair, is a Hong Kong-based international regional airline, with its corporate headquarters, Cathay Dragon House, and main hub at Hong Kong International Airport. As of 30 October 2013, the airline operates a scheduled passenger network to 44 destinations in 13 countries and territories across Asia. Additionally, the airline has 3 codeshares on routes which are served by partner airlines. It has an all Airbus fleet of 41 aircraft, consisting of A320s, A321s and A330s. Cathay Dragon is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong's flag carrier, Cathay Pacific, and is an affiliate member of the Oneworld airline alliance. The airline was founded on May 24, 1985 by Chao Kuang Piu, the airline's present honorary chairman. Its maiden flight departed Hong Kong for Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia after being granted an air operator's certificate (AOC) by the Hong Kong Government in July 1985. In 2010, Dragonair, together with its parent, Cathay Pacific, operated over 138,000 flights, carried nearly 27 million passengers and over 1.80 billion kg of cargo and mail.
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Evangelical Free Church of China Evangelical Free of Church of China (EFCC) was established by the Reverend Hans J. von Qualen in 1888. It established its first church, Tin Chuen Church, in Hong Kong in 1937. In 1949, a large number of missionaries relocated themselves south to Hong Kong when there was a change in Chinese political scenery. At the same time, the EFCC Headquarters was also moved to Hong Kong to continue the implementation of its goal.
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Cecil Harcourt Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt (Chinese Translated Name: 夏慤; 11 April 1892 – 19 December 1959), was a British naval officer. From September 1945 to June 1946, Harcourt was the de facto governor of Hong Kong as commander-in-chief and head of the military administration. He was called by the Chinese name "Ha Kok", a reference to the fourth-century Chinese nobleman .
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TurboJET TurboJET () is the brand name for the operations of the Hong Kong-headquartered Shun Tak-China Travel Ship Management Limited (), which was established from the joint venture between Shun Tak Holdings Limited and China Travel International Investment Hong Kong Limited in July 1999. It operates hydrofoil ferry services between Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzen and Zhuhai, in the Pearl River Delta area.
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Tai Kok Tsui Ferry Pier Tai Kok Tsui Ferry Pier (1972–1992) () was a ferry pier in Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It started operation in 1972, together with an adjacent bus terminus, to replace the Mong Kok Ferry Pier in Mong Kok. It provided a ferry service to and from Central, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, Mainland China. Its cross-boundary ferry terminal position was replaced by the Hong Kong China Ferry Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui in 1988. It was then closed in 1992 to cope with land reclamation work for the Airport Core Programme. The bus terminus remained in use until it was relocated to a new reclaimed area in west Tai Kok Tsui in 1995. The pier has been reclaimed and the HSBC Centre now stands where the former bus terminal used to be.
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Hong Kong Student Welfare Association Hong Kong Student Welfare Association (Chinese: 香港學生福利聯盟 ) is the largest youth organization in Hong Kong, with approximately 84,000 members. It was founded in 2000 and is made up of more than 70 students' associations or students' councils in Hong Kong. The best known part of the association is its Welfare Department which arranges discounts in many Hong Kong shops. It also sells sports equipment and stationery to students. The Educational Department holds inter-school competitions in different subjects.
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Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (Chinese: 香港管弦樂團), commonly abbreviated as HKPO or HKPhil (Chinese: 港樂), is the largest symphony orchestra in Hong Kong. First established in 1947 as an amateur orchestra under the name Sino-British Orchestra (中英管弦樂團), it was renamed the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1957 and became a professional orchestra in 1974 under the funding of the government.
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Hong Kong Baptist Hospital Hong Kong Baptist Hospital (HKBH) is an 800-bed private hospital located in the Kowloon area of Hong Kong. Founded in 1963, it was the first private hospital in Hong Kong. It does not provide accident and emergency (A&E) services.
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Hong Kong Police Band The Hong Kong Police Band (Abbreviation: HKPB; ) is a ceremonial unit and a military band of the Hong Kong Police Force and is used for official events. It was established in 1954 and initially performed with the Hong Kong Police Silver Band (formed in 1951). Both bands merged to form a single band and was later renamed the Royal Hong Kong Police Pipe Band. The Pipe Band colours is the MacIntosh tartan and was adopted in memory of a former Commissioner of Police, Mr Duncan William MacIntosh, after which the MacIntosh Forts were also named.
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Imperial Pacific Imperial Pacific International Holdings Limited ( is a Chinese investment holding company. It was founded with headquarters in Hong Kong and originally named First Natural Foods Holdings until it was renamed in May 2014. It operates as a subsidiary of Inventive Star Limited.
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Hong Kong Economic Times Hong Kong Economic Times (26 January 1988), the leading financial daily in Hong Kong, was founded by Mr. Fung Siu Por, Lawrence (Chairman), Mr. Perry Mak (Managing Director), Mr. Arthur Shek (Executive Director) and other founders with HK$20 million of foundation fund in 1988. Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited on 3 August 2005 ().
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Wan Hai Lines Wan Hai Lines () was founded in 1965 in Taiwan as a shipping company. At the beginning, Wan Hai's business was mainly on the log transportation among Taiwan, Japan and the Southeast Asia. In 1976, in order to respond to the rapid development of international trade in the Asia Pacific area and the trend of international transportation containerization, Wan Hai has entered the business of container vessel shipping. More recently Wan Hai expanded its Asia shipping network to services to US, South America, Africa, and Middle East.
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Transport International Holdings Limited Transport International Holdings Limited () (), formerly known as The Kowloon Motor Bus Holdings Limited, is a public transport operator in Hong Kong and some cities in the Mainland China. Sun Hung Kai Properties is its largest minority shareholder with 33% interest, and is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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City University of Hong Kong School of Law The School of Law () of City University of Hong Kong was founded in 1987, as the second law school in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong Broadband Network Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (HKBN; ) (), a Hong Kong-based ISP established in 1999, is one of the largest residential broadband and telecommunications service providers in Hong Kong. HKBN operates in both Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and employs about 2,900 personnel.
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Hong Kong 1 July marches The Hong Kong 1 July protests () is an annual protest rally originally held by the Civil Human Rights Front from the day of handover in 1997 on the HKSAR establishment day. However, it was not until 2003 that the march drew large public attention by opposing the legislation of Basic Law Article 23. The 2003 protest, with 500,000 marchers, was the largest protest seen in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover. Prior to this, only the pro-democracy protest on 21 May 1989 drew more people with 1.5 million marchers in Hong Kong sympathising with the participants of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The introduction of Article 23 legislation leave aside due to the protest. Since then, 1 July marches have been organized every year to demand for democracy, universal suffrage, rights of minorities, protection of freedom of speech, and a variety of other political concerns.
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Hong Kong Christian Council The Hong Kong Christian Council (香港基督教協進會) is a Protestant Christian ecumenical organization founded in Hong Kong in 1954. It is a member of the World Council of Churches and the Christian Conference of Asia. Not all Protestant churches in Hong Kong are members of the Christian Council.
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Shriro Shriro Group is a private company headquartered in Hong Kong. Shriro was founded in 1906 as a family business in Harbin, Northern China. The first international office was set up in 1917 in Yokohama, Japan. From the early days, the business was mainly commodities and expanded rapidly after 1945 as the product line expanded and new subsidiaries opened in many South East Asian countries and Canada.
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Law Society of Hong Kong Established in 1907, The Law Society of Hong Kong () is the professional association and law society for solicitors in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Bar Association is the equivalent association for barristers in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong Red Cross The Hong Kong Red Cross () is the national Red Cross society of Hong Kong as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It was established officially on 12 July 1950 as a branch of the British Red Cross Society in Hong Kong. Since 1 July 1997, upon the transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty to the People's Republic of China, the Hong Kong Red Cross has changed its affiliation to become a special branch of the Red Cross Society of China, but remains autonomous from it.
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CSL Mobile Limited CSL Mobile Limited (), formerly known as "PCCW Mobile HK Limited ()", is an HKT subsidiary, which operates mobile network brands of "csl", "1O1O" and "SUN Mobile" in Hong Kong. CSL was Hong Kong's first mobile communications operator established in 1983, and also the first network to launch the world’s first dual band 4G LTE network with DC-HSPA+.