China has always asserted it never gave up sovereignty and its surrender of Hong Kong to the British was due to unfair Opium War treaties in the 1800s. The UK returned Hong Kong to China in 1997 ...

Nearly 20 years after Hong Kong was returned to China, the British army is back -- this time to train the city's police force on crucial matters of pomp and ceremony. Four British army personnel ...

Six months before Hong Kong marks 20 years since their departure on a rainswept night at the end of June 1997, the British army has returned to Hong Kong. Advertisement.

Ma Wan might have become the main British Empire trading settlement in southern China, not Hong Kong Island, but for a British army officer’s hasty survey in poor weather.

British judges paid £40,000 to sit on Hong Kong court despite pro-China crackdown More than 1,800 political prisoners have been detained in Hong Kong in Beijing’s clampdown on the region since 2019 ...

British military personnel were sent to train Hong Kong police who later beat up pro-democracy protesters, the MoD has revealed. The admission follows controversy over former RAF pilots being paid ...

Nearly 20 years after Hong Kong was returned to China, the British army is back — this time to train the city’s police force on crucial matters of pomp and ceremony. Four British army personnel ...

A Hong Kong police officer received bomb disposal training from British soldiers at the same time as pro-democracy protesters were being arrested for possession of explosives, Declassified has found.

More than 1,800 political prisoners have been detained in Hong Kong in a crackdown since mass pro-democracy protests in 2019. In June, the last remaining Canadian judge Beverely McLachlin, 80 ...

Army veterans refused ­British citizenship could be among the first of three million Hong Kong residents to arrive next month. The 64 ex-soldiers may get visas under the Hong Kong settlement ...

Treaties signed in the 1800s stipulated that the Brits were only to hand back the northern swath of Hong Kong called the New Territories—and not Hong Kong island or Kowloon (i.e., the major ...

New textbooks for Hong Kong schools will state the territory was never a British colony, local media report. Instead, the books declare the British "only exercised colonial rule" in Hong Kong - a ...