Hong Kong will celebrate the 27th anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule on July 1 this year. Over 1,000 restaurants and food markets will mark the occasion with discounts, Chief ...

A Hong Kong man has been jailed for two years for inciting violence against the police by leaving anonymous comments online.

Hong Kong education authorities will distribute copies of a speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping to local schools and kindergartens for the first time, with teachers told to “study and learn ...

As Hong Kong marks the 25th anniversary of the handover, we trace the highs and lows over the years. For more than 150 years, Hong Kong was a British colony. Then, with the raising of the Chinese ...

Pro-democracy events are held every year to mark the handover. UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeted that "UK support for Hong Kong and its freedoms is UNWAVERING on this anniversary day".

Four Hong Kong men, including 19-year-old twins, have been sentenced to up to three years in prison for rioting in 2019 ...

The UK had controlled Hong Kong island since 1842, apart from a brief period during World War Two when the Japanese took over. Among the 4,000 guests for the final handover ceremony at the ...

Since the Hong Kong handover, ordinary people in the territory have struggled with soaring living costs that inflamed political tension. Beijing imposed the National Security Law in 2020 following ...

“The fact they are the first journalists to be sentenced to jail on colonial-era ‘sedition’ charges since before the Hong Kong handover of 1997 indicates that there has rarely been a more dangerous ...

which takes into account developments in the two decades or so of the new legal framework in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover. In providing both an exposition of the legal institutions in Hong Kong ...

Christopher Patten, Hong Kong's last British colonial governor who oversaw its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, is among the ...