Appendix B: Journalism Freedom: 1980–2008 (Country Ratings from Freedom House) - Hong Kong

Population (2010, proj.): 7,069,000

Gross National Income per Capita (current, 2007): $31,560

Date of Independence: none (control transferred from the UK to China in 1997)

Date of Last Constitution: March 1990 (Basic Law, considered Hong Kong's “mini-constitution”)

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Legal guarantees for free speech exist in Hong Kong, which enjoys an ...

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