Hong Kong is a small peninsula with islands that juts into the South China Sea on the southern coast of China Its territory covers only about a by mile area Despite its small size Hong Kong is one of the world's most significant financial centres and commercial ports world's tenth-largest exporter ninth-largest importer and its legal tender the Hong Kong dollar is the world's th-most traded currency Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world and hosts the largest concentration of ultra high-net-worth individuals of any city Wikipedia [... more]

Education reformers have made great progress in North Carolina in recent years They still have plenty of work to do to improve traditional public schools and to expand opportunities for parental school choice Terry Stoops the John Locke Foundation's director of research and education studies outlines key education recommendations from the latest version of JLF's Agenda document Free trade has taken a beating during the presidential campaign Donald Trump Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton all took aim at agreements designed to remove trade barriers between the United States and foreign countries That's bad news to Scott Linciome international trade attorney [... more]