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849:"Internally, inter-village feuds were common. They amounted to mini-wars, often lasting for years and marked by deaths in armed struggles and the destruction of houses and crops. The causes of strife were often rooted in access to, or protection of, precious water for irrigation, and other economic assets, such as the control of ferries and markets. Disputes over fung-shui of settlements or ancestral graves were not uncommon because the belief of sitings being directly linked with prosperity or adversity. Superior geomantic skills were in demand, since they could be used to injure the fung-shui of another village, lineage, branch lineage or family, or even to drive out earlier settlers." (Hayes, 2012) 1268: 783: 719: 1325: 32: 813:
As a result of a large influx of non-indigenous inhabitants into the rural villages, conflicts between indigenous and non-indigenous inhabitants are surfacing. Because the management of a village was only in the hand of indigenous inhabitants, non-indigenous inhabitants could not participate in the
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People have been living on boats in the New Territories for generations, and they do not usually own land or houses. They have no special rights because the Hong Kong government since 1898 only recognises
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Special rights are restricted to the village that the indigenous inhabitant is from. In order to protect the tradition of villages, male indigenous inhabitants have the right to apply for
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The lawful traditional rights and interests of the indigenous inhabitants of the "New Territories" shall be protected by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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found sites of suspected of illegal collusion between developers and villagers, and additionally found villager land that could otherwise be used for
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Hayes, J. (2012). The great difference. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, p.7.
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This article is about natives of Hong Kong. For other indigenous inhabitants, see
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Indigenous inhabitants have special rights to preserve their customs. When the
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which is different from the newcomers who spoke contemporary standard
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Conflicts between indigenous and non-indigenous inhabitants
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was signed, a resident of an established village in the
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in 1997, these special rights were preserved under the
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Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory
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