There is a need to educate Hong Kong residents on the often-overlooked relics of the city’s wartime history. We have undertaken an initiative to map and document World War II defensive ...
Hong Kong police have safely detonated a 500lbs (227kg) aerial bomb dropped by Japanese forces during World War II and discovered in waters off the eastern New Territories. The ordinance was ...
A 500-pound bomb from World War II was found in the waters off Sai Kung, Hong Kong. After confirming its origins, authorities carried out a controlled detonation on October 8, 2024, causing an ...
Hong Kong police have safely detonated a 500-pound bomb (227kg) discovered in waters off the eastern New Territories, which had been dropped by Japanese fighter jets during World War II.
Kowloon Walled City was a densely populated, ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, an area just north of Hong Kong. What began as a Chinese military fort evolved into a squatters' village comprising a ...
Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of reexports, is about four times GDP.