|
Leung Kwok Wai
Leung Kwok Wai ( ; born 23 February 1986) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a defender. Club career Tuen Mun Leung, starter his football career at Tuen Mun. Later, he joined the club in 2006, when the club were still competing in the Third 'District' Division. He was one of the three players who helped the club promote to the First Division from Third Division. Since his arrival at the club, he was the first choice centre-back of the club, even when the club were competing in the First Division. However, Tuen Mun confirmed his departure after the end of the 2011–12 season, stating that the club wanted to make a change. Yokohama FC Hong Kong Leung, along with his Tuen Mun centre-back partner Čedomir Mijanović Čedomir Mijanović ( Cyrillic: Чедомир Мијановић; born 17 January 1980) is a Montenegrin retired professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Hong Kong
Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the British occupation of Hong Kong Island in 1841, during the First Opium War between the British and the Qing dynasty. The Qing had wanted to enforce its prohibition of opium importation within the dynasty that was being exported mostly from British India, as it was causing widespread addiction among its populace. The island was ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Nanking, ratified by the Daoguang Emperor in the aftermath of the war of 1842. It was established as a crown colony in 1843. In 1860, the British took the opportunity to expand the colony with the addition of the Kowloon Peninsula after the Second Opium War, while the Qing was embroiled in handling the Taiping Rebellion. With the Qing further weakened after the First Sino-Japanese Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |