Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese territory was ever a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese and Hong Kong flags on Friday mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China from Britain. Hong Kong is ...

New textbooks contend the territory was never a British colony. The reason: China never recognized the treaties that ceded it to Britain. SHENZHEN, China — At the stroke of midnight on July 1, 1997, ...

HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is ...

They were among nine Irish-born governors of Hong Kong after it became a British colony in 1841 and they feature in a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong is preparing to ...

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 ...

BEIJING — Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese territory was ever a British colony. China’s Communist rulers say the semiautonomous city and the ...