Originally published to fanfare in Britain last year as “Gweilo” — a mildly pejorative Cantonese term for a Westerner — this memoir has been far more aptly retitled here as “Golden Boy.” The three ...

1950-1951: Britain recognizes the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1950. Relations are uneasy as hundreds of thousands of Chinese refugees flood into Hong Kong. When the United Nations imposes a ...

Hong Kong’s exports plunged in December by the most since the 1950s, extending a monthslong streak of declines fueled by China’s slowdown and a global demand dropoff that probably pushed the financial ...

A rare 1950s Patek Philippe timepiece sold for a hammer price of HK$60 million ($7.7 million) in a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong that took place amid rising tensions as protests rage in the city, ...

1910: With deterioration of Sino-British relations during the first Opium War, Hong Kong is ceded to Britain in perpetuity in 1842. It is proclaimed a colony and ruled by the Hong Kong Legislative ...