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A prominent example of cultural integration in everyday life in British Hong Kong, was the use of British English as a common second language, and also the sole official language of the colony until 1974, when Chinese was accorded co-official status. [66]
Hong Kong athletes and teams compete under the Hong Kong SAR flag instead of the British flag of Hong Kong, and gold medallists were honoured with the Chinese national anthem, instead of the British national anthem. [126] The Court of Final Appeal replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the highest court of appeal. [127]
Hong Kong–United Kingdom relations are the international relations between the post-colonial Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.Hong Kong was a British colony from 1841 to 1941 and again from 1945 to 1997 when sovereignty was handed over to China.
Hong Kong had been a British colony since 1841, when it was occupied by British forces during the first Opium War. China’s Qing Dynasty signed it over to the British the following year in the ...
LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) -The rule of law in Hong Kong is profoundly compromised in areas of the law where the government has strong opinions, a British judge who recently resigned from the top ...
Hong Kong, a former British colony, is a common law jurisdiction, unlike mainland China. Since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997, non-permanent overseas judges have continued to serve on the ...
The first British presence in the area was the British East India Company, which started trading in the area in 1699 and set up a trading post in Canton in 1711. The British captured Hong Kong Island in 1841 during the First Opium War and were officially ceded the territory in 1842 under the Treaty of Nanking.
The Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong to the British Empire in 1842 through the Treaty of Nanjing, ending the First Opium War. Hong Kong then became a British crown colony. [2] Britain also won the Second Opium War, forcing the Qing Empire to cede Kowloon in 1860, while leasing the New Territories for 99 years from 1898. [3] [4]