SEOUL The South Korean organizers of a regional rugby tournament have apologized for mistakenly playing a song embraced by Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters as China’s national anthem, an incident that sparked strong reaction from the city’s government.
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 seekin
HONG KONG (Bloomberg): Hong Kong is targeting an end to hotel quarantine in November, ahead of a summit of global bankers and an international rugby competition, even as a resurgence in Covid-19 cases prompts health officials to push back on the plan, according to people familiar with the debate.
Hong Kong formally confirmed John Lee as its next top leader after an uncontested election, solidifying an era of more direct Chinese political contro.