‘Boo’, ‘nano’ and ‘DQ’ – eight of the catchiest terms from Hong Kong news headlines in 2017

Four more elected lawmakers were cast out of office, joining the two stripped of their seats in an oath-taking saga last year, while a new cabinet led by chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor took office and pushed ahead with a controversial plan to grant mainland authorities jurisdiction over an area of the upcoming West Kowloon Terminus for the cross-border high speed rail.

Politically, frequent filibustering in the Legislative Council chamber and the jailing of over a dozen activists, including student leader Joshua Wong, deepened the political divide between the pro-establishment bloc and pan-democrats.

Economically, despite robust growth in retail and the private sector over the past months, many Hong Kong residents still struggled to achieve home ownership, with some living in substandard conditions like subdivided flats and “nano flats”.