BEIJING – On July 1, 1997, Tung Chee-Hwa, the first chief executive of Hong Kong, declared, "For the first time in history, we, the people of Hong Kong, will be master of our own destiny." It was the ...

HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Since Britain handed back colonial Hong Kong in 1997, retired primary school teacher and Falun Gong devotee Lau Wai-hing has fully exercised the freedoms China promised ...

Hong Kong on July 1 will mark its 25th anniversary under Chinese rule. The financial hub returned to China from Britain in 1997, with promises of wide-ranging freedoms and autonomy under "one country, ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Hong Kong this week to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover from British to Chinese rule and swear in its handpicked new leader, John ...

Hong Kong’s local English newspaper South China Morning Post recently stepped up to interview developer Yoshihisa Kurosawa, who once foresaw the development of an infamous bootleg game called Hong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1997 handover agreement had promised Hong Kong would enjoy a high degree of autonomy and remain unchanged for 50 years, a ...

The Hong Kong handover ceremony began on the rain-soaked evening of 30 June 1997, after a banquet for 4,000 dignitaries.Chris Patten, the 28th and final British governor of Hong Kong, addressed the ...

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. Pro-democracy ...

“Traffic police will today begin a detailed inquiry into how a float in a Lunar New Year parade careered into a Tsim Sha Tsui crowd, killing a tourist and injuring 31 people,” reported the South China ...