Hong Kong Handover
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Singing a Revolution: Pop, Politics, and the Umbrella Movement
The genre of Canto-pop has exceeded expectations, becoming more than just a popular music genre. It has provoked thought, sung for the people of Hong Kong, and time and time again has held a mirror to the SAR’s socio-political sentiments and local identity.
Hong Kong 20 Years After the Handover: Locked in Stasis
A decade after the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, most analyses were positive. A further 10 years has elapsed. How is Hong Kong doing now?
ASIA NEWS BITES: President Xi Lauds Efforts to Curb Hong Kong Independence; China Rejects Nobel Laureate's Cancer Treatment Overseas; Duterte's First Year
A quick roundup of the most important news from around the region.
Hong Kong Handover: The Rise of Military-Style Youth Groups
'If they knew their kids were entering those organizations to become ideological, many of those parents, I would say, would withhold.'
Hong Kong Handover: Riding the Property Roller Coaster
'They bought their first apartment in 1970 for HK$45,000 (US$5,775), moving seven times before they splashed out HK$7.85 million on their Wonderland Villas home - it is now worth double that.'
Hong Kong 20th Anniversary: Chris Patten, the Last Colonial Governor, Recalls the City's Handover
Two decades on, Chris Patten worries he didn't do enough to shore up democracy.
Hong Kong Handover: Nostalgia for the British
Activists yearn for a return to Hong Kong's colonial past.
Hong Kong Handover: Those Who Left Look Back
There are no official emigration figures, but government estimates show hundreds of thousands leaving Hong Kong between 1990 and 1997