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THE Hong Kong dollar is poised for its biggest monthly retreat since 1985 as interest rates in the city drop and pessimism towards China’s economy weighs on the stock market. The currency has declined ...
1985-1989: In Beijing a committee is formed to draft the "Basic Law" that will govern Hong Kong after hand-over, and a Sino-Soviet Joint Liaison Group is set up in Hong Kong to facilitate the transfer ...
The mid-1980s were a strange time for martial arts movies, both in the U.S. and abroad. The broadly termed “kung fu” genre had run amok with wild abandon in Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, ...