PACIFIC NOTES
Hong Kong marked 150 years of British rule Friday without fanfare, aware that it returns to Chinese rule in less than seven years.
The colony’s Chinese-language newspapers barely mentioned the anniversary, apart from a historic account of the territory’s early colonial rule published in the independent Ming Pao Daily News.
But the two English-language papers, the Hongkong Standard and the South China Morning Post, turned out a special 16-page supplement on Hong Kong’s history to mark the occasion.
Hong Kong government spokesman Mark Pinkstone said there had been talks about staging a festival to mark the anniversary, but it was decided the money could be better used elsewhere.
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