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The month of June 2020 was the first anniversary of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. The decision taken by the National People's Congress on national security legislation and the alleviation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong led to a new series of protests and international responses. On 30 June, the Standing Committee of the National ...
On February 24, Hong Kong immigrant Fermi Wong Wai-fun caught a bus from her new home in Bristol, England, bound for a protest in London's embassy district. Wong, a veteran of Hong Kong's protest ...
The 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (also known by other names) were a series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the largest series of demonstrations in the history of Hong Kong. [22] [23]
The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China was at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rule in the former colony, which began in 1841. Hong Kong was established as a special administrative region of China (SAR) for 27 years, maintaining its own economic and governing systems ...
The laissez-faire economic policy and the so-called "positive non-interventionism" are regarded two key cornerstones of Hong Kong's economic success in post-war decades.. They continue to be the fundamental framework guiding state policy, and are a major obstacle to making major changes in the government's approach to launch new social policy initiatives.
Across every state, thousands of low-income veterans use SNAP, formerly food stamps, to stretch their grocery budgets. However, many veterans are resistant to SNAP and don't get the help they need....
On November 11, 1918, the German Empire signed the Armistice and surrendered to the Allies, marking the end of World War I. Since 1911, the British Hong Kong government declared November 11 as the annual Remembrance Day. [3] Every year, the Governor of Hong Kong, government officials and Legislative Council members attend the memorial event at ...
The Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is a national law of China on Hong Kong national security passed in 2020. [1] It is implemented in Hong Kong in accordance with Hong Kong Basic Law Article 18, which allows for China's national laws to be valid in Hong Kong ...