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Hong Kong Sevens (香港国际七人榄球赛)

Hong Kong Sevens (香港国际七人榄球赛), also called Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens, is an annual rugby sevens tournament held in Hong Kong since 1976, organized by Hong Kong China Rugby, now at Kai Tak Stadium and opening the HSBC SVNS World Championship.

Hong Kong Shipping Register

The Hong Kong Shipping Register is Hong Kong's autonomous ship register, operated by its Marine Department, ranked fourth in the world by tonnage in 2024 and positioned as a quality flag.

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport (香港特别行政区护照)

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport (HKSAR passport) is a passport of China issued to Chinese citizens who are permanent residents of Hong Kong, issued since July 1997.

Hong Kong Stock Exchange

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange, also known as the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong or 港交所, is Hong Kong's securities exchange, operated by HKEX since its 2000 merger with the futures exchange.

Hong Kong Telecom (HKT)

Hong Kong Telecom (HKT), formally Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) Limited, is Hong Kong's principal telecommunications provider, offering fixed line, mobile, fiber broadband, and pay TV under PCCW majority ownership.

Hong Kong tropical cyclone warning signals

The Hong Kong tropical cyclone warning signals, known as typhoon signals, are numbered warnings from the Hong Kong Observatory using signals 1, 3, 8, 9, and 10.

Hong Kong West Kowloon railway station

Hong Kong West Kowloon railway station (香港西九龙站) is the underground terminus of the Express Rail Link in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, opened in September 2018.

Hong Kong Wetland Park (香港湿地公园)

Hong Kong Wetland Park (香港湿地公园), opened 20 May 2006 in Tin Shui Wai, is a 61-hectare ecotourism and conservation facility with a 10,000 m² Visitor Centre and 60-hectare Wetland Reserve built on an ecological mitigation area.

Hong Kong Zoological & Botanical Garden

Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens (香港動植物公園), also called Bing Tau Fa Yuen, is Hong Kong's oldest park, opened 1871 in Central; a free 5.6-hectare zoo and botanical garden with about 236 animals and over 1,000 plant species.

Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge (港珠澳大桥)

The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge (港珠澳大桥) is a 55 km bridge–tunnel–island sea crossing opened 24 October 2018, the world's longest, linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao with a 6.7 km immersed tunnel and 120-year design life.

Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance is Ackbar Abbas's 1997 book arguing Hong Kong culture is a culture of disappearance, defined by the deja disparu, ahead of the 1997 handover to China.

Hong Leong Group Malaysia

Hong Leong Group Malaysia is a Kuala Lumpur-based family conglomerate centered on banking, founded in 1963 and led by Quek Leng Chan, whose Hong Leong Bank is Malaysia's fifth largest.

Hong Li (molecular biologist)

Hong Li is a structural molecular biologist and professor at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who uses cryo-EM to study CRISPR-Cas gene-editing enzymes and RNA-processing machinery.

Hong Liangji

Hong Liangji (洪亮吉, 1746–1809) was a Qing dynasty scholar-official from Jiangsu, a geographer and early population theorist exiled in 1799 for a blunt memorial criticizing the Jiaqing emperor.

Hong Mā

Hong Ma is a plant molecular biologist and Huck Chair at Penn State, known for his 1992 Cell paper on the floral gene AGAMOUS and for angiosperm phylogenomics.

Hong Mai

Hong Mai (洪迈, 1123–1202) was a Song dynasty scholar-official, historian, and writer best known for the note collection Rongzhai Suibi and the tale collection Yijian zhi.

Hong Myung-hee

Hong Myung-hee (홍명희, 1888–1968) was a Korean novelist, journalist, and independence activist best known for the historical novel Imkkeokjeong, and who became North Korea's first Vice Premier in 1948.

Hong Qin

Hong Qin is a theoretical and computational plasma physicist known for structure-preserving geometric algorithms and topological plasma physics, and winner of the 2023 John Dawson Award.

Hong Qinghua

Hong Qinghua (洪清华) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the Shanghai online travel agency Lvmama in 2008, building it into a leading distributor of scenic-spot tickets.

Hong Ren

Hong Ren (弘仁, 1610–1663) was a Chinese monk and early Qing landscape painter, one of the Four Monks, best known for spare, austere paintings of Huangshan built on Ni Zan's style.

Hong Rengan

Hong Rengan (洪仁玕, 1822–1864) was a leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom titled Gan Wang, who directed its government and wrote the never-implemented modernization program Zizheng Xinpian.

Hong Sa-ik

Hong Sa-ik (洪思翊) was a Korean career officer who rose to lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army and was hanged in Manila in 1946 as a class B war criminal.

Hong Sang-soo (홍상수)

Hong Sang-soo (홍상수, 洪常秀), born 1960 in Seoul, is a prolific South Korean director of over 30 minimalist features since The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996), winning prizes at Cannes, Locarno, and Berlin.

Hong Seok-cheon

Hong Seok-cheon (홍석천) is a South Korean actor and restaurateur, the first Korean celebrity to come out as gay (2000). Known for the sitcom Three Men, Three Women, his Itaewon restaurant chain, and advocacy for LGBTQ rights in South Korea.

Hong Shen

Hong Shen (洪深, 1894–1955) was a Chinese playwright, director, actor, and drama theorist, a founder of modern spoken drama (huaju) and of the Chinese film industry.

Hong Sheng

Hong Sheng (洪升, 1645–1704) was a Qing-dynasty playwright and poet from Qiantang, present-day Hangzhou, best known for the 1688 drama The Palace of Eternal Life.

Hong sisters

Hong sisters (홍자매): Korean screenwriting duo Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mi-ran, debut 2005 with Delightful Girl Choon-hyang; known for My Girlfriend is a Gumiho, Hotel Del Luna, Alchemy of Souls, and 2026's Can This Love Be Translated?

Hong Su-zu (홍수주)

Hong Su-zu (홍수주, born 1994) is a South Korean actress and model, not the Taiwanese politician Hung Hsiu-chu. MAA agency; known for Sweet Home 2, The Impossible Heir, and Moon River (2025 MBC Best New Actress).

Hong Taiji (ᡥᠣᠩ ᡨᠠᡳᠵᡳ)

Hong Taiji (皇太極, 1592–1643), second ruler of the Later Jin and founding emperor of the Qing, renamed the Jurchens Manchu in 1635, proclaimed Daicing gurun in 1636, built centralized Ming-style institutions, and conquered Korea and Mongolia before dying a year before the Qing entered Beijing.

Hong Taiji's raids into North China

Hong Taiji's raids into North China (清兵入塞) were cavalry expeditions sent by the Qing ruler Hong Taiji through Great Wall passes into Ming territory around Beijing from 1629.