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 ...

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.

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 ...

The last British Governor of Hong Kong, Lord Patten presents Hong Kong Night, a look back at the handover, 1800 BST - Midnight, Sun 1 July, BBC Parliament. E-mail this to a friend ...

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 ...

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 ...