Guardian News published this video item, entitled “Rescue under way after vessel snaps in two in South China Sea” – below is their description.
Hong Kong and mainland Chinese rescuers rushed to an area of southern China where a ship with a crew of 30 on board was snapped in two by strong waves created by Typhoon Chaba. The footage released by the Hong Kong Government Flying Service showed members of the crew of the engineering vessel Fujing001 being pulled to safety. Government Flying Service officials said three people had been rescued, but the fate of the other 27 crew on the vessel remained unknown.
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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”.