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Hong Kong handover 20th anniversary

Hong Kong handover 20th anniversary
Hong Kong celebrates the 20th anniversary of its handover from Britain to China on July 1, 2017.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
Beijing is losing its campaign to win the hearts and minds of Hong Kong people as badly as it lost the opium wars. Photo: Reuters
HK handover 20th anniversary

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

HK handover 20th anniversary

Hongkongers should re-educate themselves on Chinese history

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Liaoning aircraft carrier

In pictures: Hong Kong greets the Liaoning and its warship escort

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Liaoning aircraft carrier

Photo rules relaxed on Liaoning as 400 VIPs welcomed on board

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Guests were able to take photos of two J-15 fighter jets inside hangar but only chief executive Carrie Lam and former leaders Leung Chun-ying and Tung Chee-hwa had opportunity to go on flight deck
Global Sources Exhibitions

Can Hong Kong retain its status as key Asian exhibitions hub?

Liaoning aircraft carrier

Hongkongers camp out for Liaoning aircraft carrier tickets

Hongkongers flocked to the city’s military barracks late Sunday night to wait for free tickets allowing them to embark and tour China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, opening to the public for the first time since it was commissioned in 2012.

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HK handover 20th anniversary

Annual July 1 march draws record low turnout, police claim

The anti-government event saw its size shrink by almost half to a two-year low.

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Organiser blames aggression and rain for turnout of just 66,000, but police put figure at a 14-year low of 14,500

Opinion | Why Hong Kong was glad to see the back of ‘white coolies’

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HK handover 20th anniversary

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

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HK handover 20th anniversary

We’ll never forget you, Britain told HK with a straight face

A building in Wan Chai celebrates the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. Photo: AFP
The View

The View | City in protest turmoil going through the five stages of grief

When acceptance comes of the city’s fate as a part of the mainland system, it won’t be a victory for Beijing, nor the Hong Kong government or its people or battered police. Perhaps only the triads will emerge unbruised.

Police patrol Tamar Park after anti-extradition protests, on June 18. Whether acceptance of Hong Kong’s identity as a part of the mainland system comes around 2040 or earlier, city life will not be as good for anyone as it was in 2013. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Hong Kong extradition bill

Letters | Hong Kong protests blurring lines between picket and riot

Protesters and their supporters must see that rights come with duties for trust to thrive between the people and government. This applies to ‘one country, two systems’ as well.

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Singapore

Letters | Singapore feels for HK protesters, but won’t back violence

The extradition bill has unleashed the unhappiness over issues such as housing and jobs that date back to the colonial era – domestic matters that Singaporeans respect as Hong Kong’s own business.

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Hong Kong extradition bill

Letters | Liberal studies isn’t to blame for youth unrest, but this may be

Tung Chee-hwa blames the liberal studies curriculum his administration introduced for the discontent of young people today. He would do better to fault another failed programme he started.

Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first chief executive after the 1997 handover, has claimed that the liberal studies curriculum that began under his administration is to blame for today’s “youth problems”. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
July 1 march

Letters | July 1 nightmare for Hong Kong was heartbreaking to watch

The Legislative Council sign covered with paint and graffiti calling for Chief Executive Carrie Lam to step down, on July 2. The city legislature was left vandalised after protesters stormed in during a demonstration against the extradition bill on July 1, the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from British to Chinese sovereignty. Photo: Sam Tsang
Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Bad weather could move July 1 handover ceremony indoors, says city official

It would be first time event held inside since 1997 handover, but Matthew Cheung refuses to comment on whether protest threat could force relocation.

US-China tech war

Letters | US, UK targeting China tech and Huawei in new ‘opium war’

When British and American smugglers shipped in opium in defiance of a Chinese ban, their actions led to a century of weakness for China. Are they trying to do the same by targeting Huawei and other Chinese tech companies?

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Hong Kong extradition bill

Letters | Cost of forcing new extradition law on Hong Kong may be too high

For over 20 years, Hongkongers believed the government when it said the Basic Law held true and law and order were in top shape. Now, it says Hong Kong is a fugitive haven urgently needing a fix. What is one to believe any more?

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A police officer holds down an anti-extradition demonstrator on Harcourt Road, Admiralty, on June 12. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Hong Kong extradition bill

Letters | Why Hong Kong must not rush into extradition deal with China

The central government and Hong Kong authorities should carefully negotiate a detailed agreement that includes the necessary safeguards for individual rights before proceeding to legislation.

Occupy Central

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

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Carrie Lam

Letters | Hong Kong or Britain? There was only one choice for colonial officers

A demonstration in Hong Kong against the problems caused by the “port of first asylum” policy imposed by the British government. Photo: SCMP
Typhoon Mangkhut

Typhoon Mangkhut: a dozen must-reads while you’re stuck at home

Batten down the hatches and reach for that packet of crisps. This Week in Asia has some suggested reading to get you through the big day

Batten down the hatches and reach for that packet of crisps. This Week in Asia has some suggested reading to get you through the big day
Travel news and advice

BN(O) passport holders entitled to same consular services as other British nationals

Former governor Wilson ‘absolutely astonished’ by times runners complete his trail in

Britain

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

Officials repeatedly pressured Portugal not to grant rights to Macau residents to prevent Hongkongers from asking for similar treatment.

A two-year-old girl clutches her passport at the Immigration Department in 1995. Parents were signing their children up in droves to obtain British National (Overseas) passports ahead of the city’s return to Chinese rule in 1997. Photo: SCMP
History

Why it is up to Hong Kong to protect its history

Tourists from mainland China pose for photos in front of the Golden Bauhinia statue, a gift from the central government to Hong Kong in 1997 to celebrate the city’s return to Chinese sovereignty, in Wan Chai in December 2017. Photo: AFP 
Anti-mainland China sentiments

Rewriting history? No, it’s just correct terminology: Matthew Cheung hits back

Chief secretary points to earlier article by the Post and defends government’s move to erase word from its website.

Anti-mainland China sentiments

Hong Kong's history being rewritten, one phrase at a time

‘Handover of sovereignty’ no longer an acceptable way to refer to the events of 1997, according to government department.

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Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong students will benefit from lessons in Chinese history

The flags of China and Hong Kong are displayed together in Shenzhen, during an event marking the 20th anniversary of the handover last July. Photo: Reuters
The flags of China and Hong Kong are displayed together in Shenzhen, during an event marking the 20th anniversary of the handover last July. Photo: Reuters

What Hongkongers can do if they feel the pressure from Beijing

Hong Kong localism, independence

Why Hong Kong youth struggle with Chinese identity

Britain

How Hong Kong balances ‘one country, two systems’

Revellers dressed in the British and Chinese national colours, at a handover party in Kowloon, on July 1, 1997. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge

Did Hong Kong’s mega bridge just turn a whiter shade of pale?

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Concrete tetrapods, supposed to protect the edges of an artificial island that is part of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge project, appear to have been collapsing and drifting away. Photo: May Tse
Concrete tetrapods, supposed to protect the edges of an artificial island that is part of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge project, appear to have been collapsing and drifting away. Photo: May Tse
Hong Kong housing

Hong Kong Lands Department disappoints on housing sites search

Hong Kong high-speed rail

What would high-speed rail joint checkpoint mean for Hong Kong’s autonomy?

Singapore

Singapore and Hong Kong were once British colonies: the similarity ends there

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The financial district of Singapore, where diverse ethnic groups share in the culture of “being Singaporean”. Photo: AFP