HONG KONG — Many schoolchildren around the world have long been taught that Hong Kong was once a colony of the British Empire. But students in Hong Kong will soon learn a different lesson: It ...

Britain seized Hong Kong during the First Opium War, and China's Qing Dynasty formally ceded it to the U.K. in a treaty in 1842. Until July 1997, Hong Kong was run by a British colonial ...

FILE - A protester waves Hong Kong British colony flag during continuing pro-democracy rallies in Tamar Park, Hong Kong, on Sept. 3, 2019. When the British handed its colony Hong Kong to Beijing ...

HONG KONG — Among the hundreds of thousands of protesters who have clogged the streets of Hong Kong in recent weeks, silver-haired, bespectacled “Grandma Wong,” usually seen waving a large ...

Reporting from Hong Kong — A black flag flew over Hong Kong’s legislative complex at dawn Monday, the anniversary of the former British colony’s handover to Chinese control in 1997.

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s leader Xi Jinping marked the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return with a speech Friday that emphasized Beijing’s control over the former British colony under its ...

FILE - Students wearing face masks attend a Chinese national flag raising ceremony during the first day of the new academic year at a secondary school, in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021.

A British member of parliament was refused entry to Hong Kong last week, the first to have received such treatment since the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule in 1997. Hobhouse said ...

SHENZHEN, China — At the stroke of midnight on July 1, 1997, the British flag over Hong Kong was lowered and the Chinese flag was raised at a ceremony marking the end of more than a century and a half ...

Hong Kong was a British colony from 1841 until its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, with the exception of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945. Its colonial status was the result of a pair of ...

[1/2]Alexandra Wong, 63, holds up a Union Flag during a demonstration demanding Hong Kong's leaders step down and withdraw an extradition bill, in Hong Kong, China, June 17, 2019.