Ma Ying-jeou was elected president of Taiwan in March 2008. A Harvard-educated lawyer and popular public figure, Ma won the presidency by the largest vote margin in Taiwan's electoral history. His landslide election also brought the long-ruling Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) back to power after an eight-year hiatus.

A meeting ground of East and West, Hong Kong is a popular vacation resort and one of the few places from which visitors can make a day trip to see China. The territory is conveniently situated as a stop on round-the-world tours.

The New Territories begin at Boundary Street, Kowloon, and extend northward to the Chinese border. The area includes many islands such as Lantau, which is larger than Hong Kong Island. Although much of the New Territories' rural land

According to the South China Morning Post the Hong Kong government and Disney are now discussing addition of three new themed 'lands' at a cost of some HK$5 billion ($645 million).

Even tourists will want to buy an Octopus card. Octopus cards are Hong Kong's version of London's Oyster cards, and can even be used to pay for convenience store purchases and the like. Adult Octopus cards will run you $150 including a $50 deposit, but they'll charge you $7 for returning it less than three months after you bought it. You'll also enjoy a discount on MTR trains by using it.

Whites make up about 75% of the U.S. population and

the population is about 98% Han Chinese

Almost everyone speaks either Cantonese or Mandarin Chinese and some English

7,018,636 (growth rate: 0.5%); birth rate: 7.3/1000; infant mortality rate: 2.9/1000; life expectancy: 81.7; density per sq mi: 6,735

Hong Kong's population crisis is likely to worsen as a survey showed Thursday that nearly four in 10 women want only one child or no children at all.

world's lowest birth rates.

Twenty-six per cent of 1,500 women interviewed said they wanted only one child

Hong Kong has a multicultural population with Chinese, Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Hindus, each with their own set of beliefs and philosophy. The Chinese have three primary religions, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, each with separate teachings and axioms that have made their way into belief systems throughout their long histories.

Hong Kong has one of the highest population densities in the world—more than 6,350 persons per km2 (more than 16,400 per mi2). Roughly 98% of the population of 6,940,432 (2006 est.) are Chinese; the majority of them have their family origins in Guangdong province. There are also significant numbers of Europeans and Americans, Filipinos (mostly domestic servants), and Indians and Pakistanis. About 60,000 Hong Kong residents emigrate each year, mainly to North America or Australia. This outflow is more than counterbalanced by legal and illegal immigration from China.

The leading religious affiliations among the Chinese are Buddhism, Daoism (Taoism), and traditional sects, followed by Christianity and Islam. English and Chinese are the languages of government. The Cantonese dialect is the usual medium of communication, although Mandarin has been promoted since the reversion to Chinese sovereignty.

A meeting ground of East and West, Hong Kong is a popular vacation resort and one of the few places from which visitors can make a day trip to see China. The territory is conveniently situated as a stop on round-the-world tours.