Tag: Hong Kong

Hong Kong is fast being subsumed into Beijing's blueprint for southern China

Friday's anniversary marks the halfway point of the 50-year governance model agreed by Britain and China

As the territory celebrates the handover's 25th anniversary on Friday, another exodus is under way

Four textbooks recently released online from three publishing houses contain the sentence "Hong Kong was not a colony"

Discussion of the events of 1989, when China set troops and tanks on peaceful protestors, is all but forbidden on the mainland

"I believe that the administration of the new government will definitely bring forth a new atmosphere"

"Our bottom line is that we don't want to breach any law in Hong Kong," said the chaplain of the Hong Kong Federation of Catholic Students

"We may not have to do that but we may have to bear some pain and steel ourselves for our loyalty to our faith."

Beijing has in recent years tightened control over the island territory and cracked down on dissent

Cardinal Zen's arrest has triggered outrage from Western nations, who have accused China of eviscerating the freedoms it promised Hong Kong