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The British Consulate General Hong Kong (BCGHK), [1] located at 1 Supreme Court Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong Island, is one of the largest British consulates general in the world and is bigger than many British embassies and high commissions. [2] It is responsible for maintaining British ties with Hong Kong and Macau. [2]
Sir Henry Pottinger, the 1st Governor of Hong Kong. It was not uncommon for British officials to be given translation of their names in history. Before getting a new translation, the name of the very first Hong Kong colonial governor, Henry Pottinger, was originally translated as 煲 顛 茶 or Bōu Dīn Chàh in Cantonese [7] which phonetically rhymes with his family name Pottinger fairly ...
Countries with no consulate-general in Hong Kong, are most likely to have an embassy in Beijing, making it the closest diplomatic mission for residents in Hong Kong.. A few consuls-general in Hong Kong have the rank of Ambassador, including Brazil, [2] Japan, [3] Philippines [4] and the United States, [5] while other consuls-general have served elsewhere as Ambassadors or High Commissioners ...
Guangzhou (Consulate-General) Hong Kong (Consulate-General) [note 1] Shanghai (Consulate-General) Wuhan (Consulate-General) Georgia. Tbilisi (Embassy) India. New Delhi (High Commission) [11] Ahmedabad (Deputy High Commission) Bangalore (Deputy High Commission) Chandigarh (Deputy High Commission) Chennai (Deputy High Commission) Hyderabad ...
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A former employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong says he was detained and tortured by Chinese secret police trying to extract information about massive anti-government protests in the ...
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 ...
The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 [5] confers a number of immunities and privileges on HKETO London either in line with or similar to provisions of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations afforded or accorded to consulates-general and consulates of high commissions and embassies, consulates-general and consulates, codified in ...