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Empower was created in 1891, when parent company Great-West Lifeco was founded as an insurance provider on the Canadian prairie. [1] After serving more than a century of expansion and a profound evolution of service offerings, the modern iteration of Empower was launched in 2014, when the retirement businesses of Great-West Life combined the record-keeping services of Great-West Financial ...
The Mandatory Provident Fund ( Chinese: 強制性公積金 ), often abbreviated as MPF ( 強積金 ), is a compulsory saving scheme ( pension fund) for the retirement of residents in Hong Kong. Most employees and their employers are required to contribute monthly to mandatory provident fund schemes provided by approved private organisations ...
Fixed-line phone numbers were either six- or seven-digit in the 1980s. Area codes were assigned with the following patterns. 3 Kowloon, New Kowloon, Ha Kwai Chung and Sai Kung; 5 Hong Kong Island and Outlying Islands; 0 New Territories; Cellular phone numbers are all eight-digit starting with '9'.
376 – Andorra (formerly 33 628) 377 – Monaco (formerly 33 93) 378 – San Marino (interchangeably with 39 0549; earlier was allocated 295 but never used) 379 – Vatican City (assigned but uses 39 06698). 38 – formerly assigned to Yugoslavia until its break-up in 1991. 380 – Ukraine. 381 – Serbia.
Hong Kong Island ( Chinese: 香港島; Jyutping: Hoeng1 gong2 dou2; Cantonese Yale: Hēunggóng dóu) is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong. The island, known originally and on road signs simply as "Hong Kong", had a population of 1,289,500 and a population density of 16,390 per square kilometre (42,400/sq mi), [ 2] as of 2023.
The Central–Wan Chai Bypass is a 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) trunk road running between Sheung Wan and Fortress Hill on Hong Kong Island.The original design consists of a 2.3 km dual three-lane tunnel running under new reclamation areas provided by the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation project, and also connections to Connaught Road West flyover and Island Eastern Corridor.
Hong Kong[ e] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities [ f] in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated territories in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing ...
Hong Kong in administration consists of 18 districts in 3 different regions. The 3 regions are: Hong Kong Island (HK), Kowloon (KLN), and the New Territories (NT). [ 11][ 12] The New Territories has the most districts (9), followed by Kowloon (5) and lastly Hong Kong Island (4). The population density per district varies from 1,021 (Islands) to ...