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The British National (Overseas) passport, commonly referred to as the BN(O) passport, is a British passport for people with British National (Overseas) status. BN(O) status was created in 1987 after the enactment of Hong Kong Act 1985, [1] whose holders are permanent residents of Hong Kong who were British Overseas Territories citizens (formerly British Dependent Territories citizens) until 30 ...
British National (Overseas), abbreviated as BN(O), is a class of British nationality associated with the former colony of Hong Kong.The status was acquired through voluntary registration by individuals with a connection to the territory who had been British Dependent Territories citizens (BDTCs) before the handover to China in 1997.
HOY TV is a Cantonese language general entertainment television channel in Hong Kong operated by Fantastic Television, whose parent company i-Cable Communications also operates the IPTV platform Cable TV. Its sister station is the English-language channel HOY International Business Channel and Cantonese news channel HOY Infotainment. [1]
In its early days, many overseas Hong Kongers from the United Kingdom and Canada were hired by Commons to conduct interviews and report on local events, [4] [3] aiming to provide 24-hour news coverage of the Hong Kong diaspora globally, but following the emergence of similar overseas media after the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, Commons ...
In 1999, it was reported that a Hong Kong resident, who had travelled to India on his BN(O) passport had been wrongly detained for 23 days because his BN(O) passport was suspected by Indian officials to be fake and was certified as a forgery by the British High Commission [citation needed] in Bombay without seeking verification from the ...
The Hong Kong government was given the green light on Wednesday to appeal a court's refusal to ban a protest song, after government lawyers cited national security concerns. “Glory to Hong Kong ...
"This will get people really worried about how free Hong Kong’s internet will be like tomorrow," he said. Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law in 2020 to quell the months-long unrest.
Since most BN(O)s also hold Chinese nationality, they do not enjoy consular protection in China, Hong Kong and Macau. [4] From 1 July 1987 to 30 June 1997, nearly 3.4 million of British Dependent Territories Citizens in Hong Kong successfully registered as a British National (Overseas). [5]