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Hong Kong Britain Unforgotten FILE - In this Monday, July 1, 2019, file photo, a protester covers the Hong Kong emblem with a Hong Kong colonial flag after they broke into the Legislative Council ...
A woman who waved a British colonial-era flag to celebrate Hong Kong claiming Olympic gold has become the first person in the city to be jailed on a charge of insulting the Chinese national anthem.
A Hong Kong court Thursday sentenced citizen journalist Paula Leung to three months in prison – the first conviction under the National Anthem Ordinance of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong.
A partially burnt British flag recovered from a War World Two battle in Hong Kong, when Japanese forces captured the city, is among the museum's most precious items.
Hong Kong's government is expected to take the rare step of invoking emergency powers on Friday so that it can enact a ban on face masks like the ones pro-democracy protesters have worn during ...
Hong Kong has recently witnessed the emergence of colonial nostalgia. How do these fond remembrances intersect with historical fact?
The arrested man, surnamed Pang, was arrested under the British colonial-era sedition law, which Hong Kong’s national security police have increasingly used to arrest activists and opponents.
British and colonial-era flags being waved at Hong Kong's anti-government rallies are a vivid rebuke to China's rule but they have also stirred intense controversy among protesters who fear the ...
Bagpipers from Hong Kong will compete in World Pipe Band Championships for the first time ever despite a Chinese government crackdown on the “colonial” instruments. A band of 18 Asian pipers ...
Lawyers for Jimmy Lai, a jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher, have asked for an urgent meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a leading member of his international legal team said Tuesday.
Hong Kong police used a colonial-era law intended to protect the British monarchy to arrest a man near a memorial for Queen Elizabeth II.