World War II in Hong Kong

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  How a Canadian museum is preserving Asia’s WWII history: inside WongAvery Asia-Pacific Peace Museum

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  When Flora Chong Mei-ling was a student in Hong Kong, she didn’t know much about colonialism, let alone Chinese history. She says her history …

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  How Hong Kong fell in love with pineapple buns, egg tarts and cocktail buns – a history

  South China Morning Post  - Lisa Cam

  When people think of Hong Kong comfort food, they probably picture char siu rice, fish balls or even a bowl of wonton noodles. But there is a …

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  What is Ukraine fighting for? The same thing wartime China valued

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  How Hong Kong POWs used every inch of innovation to fashion costumes for amateur theatre productions

  South China Morning Post  - Jason Wordie

  Amateur dramatics helped alleviate the boredom of prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, and creating the costumes involved …

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  Oh the irony: Scottish soldiers defending Hong Kong in 1941 used tunnels whose builders named them after roads in London

  South China Morning Post  - Jason Wordie

  Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly, Shaftesbury Avenue: names given to the tunnels of Hong Kong’s Shing Mun Redoubt. Yet their occupants in …

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  She was weak, alone, pregnant. And suddenly a prisoner of war no more

  South China Morning Post  - Ian Gill

  An excerpt from Searching for Billie sheds light on the life of a World War II internee at Hong Kong’s Stanley camp – the author’s mother – in the …