A day before July 1, 1997, Bryan Ong Ye-hou stood in the pouring rain to witness as the Union flag was lowered, marking the end of British rule in Hong Kong. For Ong, who was 17 years old at the ...

The protesters also draped a colonial-era Hong Kong flag on the podium inside LegCo. It's a sign of Hong Kong's history as a British colony and is being seen as a message to the former colonisers ...