But according to the South China Morning Post, new textbooks for use in Hong Kong contend the territory was never a British colony. The reason: China never recognized the treaties that ceded it to ...

New textbooks for Hong Kong schools will state the territory was never a British colony, local media report. Instead, the books declare the British "only exercised colonial rule" in Hong Kong - a ...

HONG KONG: New textbooks for Hong Kong schools will state that the territory was never a British colony, as per local media reports. Instead, the books will declare the British "only exercised ...