Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1997 handover agreement had promised Hong Kong would enjoy a high degree of autonomy and remain unchanged for 50 years, a ...

Vivian Kong of Team Hong Kong poses with gold medal during the Women's Epee Individual medal ceremony on day 1 of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. China News Service/Getty Images (China News ...

HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is ...

A man sits on a bollard on the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbour, with a view of the Hong Kong Island skyline in the background, 2021. Photo by Anthony Wallace /AFP via Getty Images) For about a year, ...

The government has rewritten the history of Hong Kong, saying that it was never a colony because British rule was illegal and was never democratic and downplaying the events of 1989. “The Hong Kong ...

Over Hong Kong’s year of mass protests, certain moments rose above the din, some humorous and touching, others violent and disturbing. Few remain as traumatic as the attacks last year in the Yuen Long ...

In this Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, file photo, anti-government protesters carry British flags as residents gather to protest a teenage demonstrator shot at close range in the chest by a police officer ...

Twenty-five years ago Friday, Hong Kong was handed over from Great Britain to the People's Republic of China, ending 156 years as a British colony. The agreement between the two countries was that for ...

"It's like watching a patient with cancer finally die." Hong Kongers grapple with the loss of their city. A woman lights a candle at a makeshift memorial in Hong Kong commemorating the death of a ...

People join the Memorials for the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in Victoria Park, Hong Kong, on June 4, 2015. The once-annual vigil has been banned since 2020. Credit: Depositphotos Subscribe for ...

Hong Kong's new leader, John Lee, rose through the law enforcement ranks to become the territory's No. 2 under outgoing Chief Executive Carrie Lam. He faces governing a divided and mistrustful city.