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Hong Kong handover 20th anniversary: History

French police use pepper spray at close range on climate change activists blocking the entrance of the Societe Generale bank headquarters near Paris, during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration on April 19. Photo: AFP

Letters | Patten and the silent hypocrisy on police action against protesters

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Archives reveal UK’s harsh appraisal of Hong Kong politics ‘godfather’

Revealed: Britain’s ‘disgraceful’ efforts to deny nationality to Hongkongers

Illustrator draws on love for Yau Mai Tei to find inspiration

Having spent her whole life in the neighbourhood, Or Wai-wai knows every alley like the back of her hand and couldn’t live without the area’s famed wholesale fruit market.

Illustrator Or Wai-wai displays a drawing of Wing Hing Bicycle outside the shop in Yau Ma Tei. Photo: Nora Tam

‘We are both FILTH’: former Post editor recalls meeting Chris Patten

Author and journalist Jonathan Fenby reflects on cheating death multiple times, his eventful editorship of Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and how he accidentally ended up feeding the West’s appetite for China books

Hongkongers don’t need history lessons from Beijing, thanks

Shen Jian says the story of Hong Kong is not a story of humiliation, and it doesn’t start with the Treaty of Nanking – even if that’s what Beijing and its supporters want us to believe

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Pronouncements of Hong Kong in decline are far from the truth

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Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbour and the Golden Bauhinia as Hong Kong celebrates the 20th anniversary of its handover, on July 1. Nora Tam

Hongkongers should re-educate themselves on Chinese history

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Then & Now | Opinion: the Hongkonger who felt PLA deserved a welcome in 1997

Jason Wordie recalls the moment he offered his hand to a newly arrived Chinese officer through the gates of Sek Kong Camp on July 1, 1997

Book launch relocated after Asia Society asks Joshua Wong not to speak

Launch of handover anthology ‘Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a borrowed place’ moved to FCC after Asia Society request that contributor Joshua Wong not speak at the event

Louisa Lim reading her contribution to Hong Kong 20/20. Photo: FCCHK

From the archives: British Hong Kong’s most fashionable royals

Diana, PRINCESS OF WALES VISITS HONG KONG AT 1989.

The Hongcouver | Has Hong Kong failed? From Vancouver, it can look that way

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Tung Chee-hwa on the handover, his family and being city's leader

Two decades after Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty, the former shipping tycoon relives some watershed moments, from the handover to his time in the US and the year his company almost went bankrupt

10 facts about Hong Kong’s biggest military display in 20 years

President Xi Jinping inspects the PLA garrison in Hong Kong. Photo: Sam Tsang

Ethnic minorities struggle to find their place post-handover

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‘It was the first time I had felt such acceptance,’ says Ansah Majeed Malik, of Pakistani heritage, about Hong Kong’s Occupy protest movement of 2014. Photo: Nora Tam

How Xi Jinping’s Occupy challenge echoes father’s experience

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Can China’s military charm offensive work in Hong Kong?

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The rise and rise of Hong Kong as it races full speed ahead

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Many of the most impressive fixtures of the Hong Kong cityscape had not yet been built at the time of the handover. Photo: Robert Ng

Brian Blessed, ‘man with the voice’, on MCing Hong Kong’s handover

The octogenarian actor known for his booming voice recalls the rain that washed away his master-of-ceremonies script for the handover, upstaging the emperor of Japan, and getting ‘rubbed up’ on set by Katharine Hepburn

Search for breathing room in most expensive city to buy a home

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Hong Kong’s iconic Cantonese cafe culture is gradually fading out

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Barbers and shoe shiners become a rare sight, while tea houses shut as youngsters now prefer to get their caffeine fix at cafes

Stamps celebrate Hong Kong handover anniversary – but collectors be warned

End of empire – the Queen Elizabeth stamps of 1996. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong-China partnership no instant cure to health concerns

Hong Kong’s best asset is the rule of law - but is it under threat?

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Winning role required in economic numbers game

The Kingkey 100, a 100-storey skyscraper and the world’s 14th tallest building, stands against at sunrise in Shenzhen, China. Photo: Handout

Beijing and Hong Kong ... 20 years of tension explained

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The China (left) and Hong Kong flags fly over Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. Photo: Felix Wong

Xi is no stranger to Hong Kong from two decades of frequent visits

Exclusive | Forget independence, Wilson and Patten tell Hong Kong’s youth

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Hong Kong handover 20th anniversary: History
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last updated:
9 September, 2024
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