Guardian News published this video item, entitled “Large crowds queue in Hong Kong for final Apple Daily edition” – below is their description.
Large crowds have queued up in Hong Kong in to purchase the final edition of the Apple Daily newspaper. The closure of Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy newspaper comes one week after five high-profile staff were arrested … and millions of dollars in its assets were frozen in Beijing’s crackdown on the media outlet. Sales of the newspaper began at 1am with some vendors selling out of their copies within hours.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.