Hong Kong is a highly developed territory and has a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.955, ranking eighth in the world and currently the only place in Asia to be in the top ten. The city …

5 days ago · At least 128 people are now known to have died, with dozens still missing after a fire ripped through a high-rise Hong Kong residential estate on Wednesday, authorities say At a …

1 day ago · Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China, located to the east of the Pearl River estuary on the south coast of China. Hong Kong was a British territory for decades until …

4 days ago · The death toll from the massive fire at a residential apartment complex in Hong Kong rose to 128 as of Friday, as search and rescue efforts continued.

5 days ago · At least 44 people have been killed after fire spread across multiple high-rise apartment buildings in a Hong Kong housing complex. Follow for live updates

Hong Kong is a vibrant city, and a major gateway to Chinese Mainland. This page will give you the facts about Hong Kong - from the form of government to the languages used.

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For more than 150 years, Hong Kong was a colony of the British Crown. In 1997 the British returned the city. Since then, it has been a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, a …

2 days ago · Hong Kong on Nov. 29 mourned the 128 people known to have died in a massive fire at a high-rise apartment complex, a toll that is likely to rise with 150 still missing days after …

Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since July 1, 1997, has a high degree of autonomy, except in the areas of defense and foreign …