8:30am-9:15am: ‘decolonisation’ 8:30am-9:15am: John Carroll, Professor, University of Hong Kong’s Department of History 8:30am-9:15am: Edward Vickers, Professor of Comparative Education at Kyushu University 8:30am-9:00am: Ronny Tong, Executive Councilor and a Senior Counsel 9:15am-9:30am: Reviving tourism 9:15am-9:30am: Freddy Yip, the president of the Travel Agent Owners Association On Friday’s Backchat, we're talking about calls for the "decolonisation" of Hong Kong, after a lawmaker urged the authorities to remove pre-1997 terms from the statue books. That came after thousands of people queued for hours to pay tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II at the British Consulate. In June, new secondary school textbooks for the revamped liberal studies course became the centre of controversy, after the materials stated the city has been an occupied territory rather than a British colony. In response, the Education Bureau said it was not seeking to deny the city’s history but to emphasise that it was inappropriate to use the term “colony” to describe the status of Hong Kong. After 9:15, we'll look at the plan to give away 500,000 airline tickets to revive tourism.