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[10] 39,523 of the people born in Hong Kong live in New York. [11] New Jersey, Texas and Washington have 9,487, 8,671, and 8,191 Hong Kong-born residents, respectively. There is also a sizable community of Hong Kongers in the Greater Boston Area, especially in Quincy, Massachusetts. Massachusetts has 7,464 residents who were born in Hong Kong. [12]
The Hong Kong-Canada Business Association (HKCBA) is a pro-Hong Kong-Canada trade, investment, and bilateral contact organization. Its Toronto section, as of 1991, had about 600 members and it had more than 2,900 members in ten other Canadian cities. The organization published a newsletter, The Hong Kong Monitor, distributed throughout Canada ...
Canada has diplomatic and consular offices (including honorary consuls that are not included in this list) in over 270 locations in approximately 180 foreign countries. Under the terms of the Canada–Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement , the two countries provide consular services to each other's citizens at a number of locations ...
There are more Americans than Britons living in the territory, and 1,100 American companies employ 10% of the Hong Kong workforce; the former head of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Eden Woon, was the first American to hold the position (1997–2006) in the territory's history.
Numbers of US dollar millionaires by world region per Credit Suisse (2022) [2] Rank Region Numbers (in thousands) Percentage of world total numbers As percentage of total adult population - World 62,489 100.0 1.1 1 Northern America: 26,778 41.9 9.5 2 Europe: 16,696 26.7 2.8 3 Asia-Pacific: 10,755 17.2 0.8 4 China: 6,190 9.9 0.6 5 Latin America ...
2/165 countries: Business Competitiveness Index - BCI [11] World Economic Forum: 10/121 countries: Human Development Index - HDI [12] United Nations: 22/177 countries: Access Index (p.19)] [13] FedEx: The Power of Access - 2006 Access Index: 1/75 countries: 2007 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index [14] World Economic Forum: 6/124 countries ...
There was a significant influx of wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs from Hong Kong in the early and mid-1990s before the handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China (PRC). Canada was a preferred location, in part because investment visas were significantly easier to obtain than visas to the United States.
This is a list of Chinese Canadians including both original immigrants who obtained Canadian citizenship and their Canadian-born descendants who are notable, have made significant contributions to the Canadian or international culture or society politically, artistically or scientifically, or have prominently appeared in the news.