Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Hong Kong this week to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover from British to Chinese rule and swear in its handpicked new leader, John ...

The flags of China and Hong Kong are displayed in a fly-by over the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on Friday. (jerome favre/Shutterstock) A flag-raising ceremony took place early Friday as ...

In this Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, file photo, anti-government protesters carry British flags as residents gather to protest a teenage demonstrator shot at close range in the chest by a police officer ...

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the ...