SHENZHEN, China — At the stroke of midnight on July 1, 1997, the British flag over Hong Kong was lowered and the Chinese flag was raised at a ceremony marking the end of more than a century and ...

Among many residents of former British colonies, such as India and Kenya ... In the shadow of New Delhi’s historic Red Fort, where the flag of newly independent India flew for the first time ...

BEIJING — Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese territory was ever a British colony. China’s Communist rulers say the semiautonomous city ...