World War II in Hong Kong

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 chaotic days following the Japanese surrender.

In an excerpt from his new book, a cartoonist and writer pays homage to his carefree and car-free adopted Hong Kong home and its fascinating collection of colourful characters.

Ho was at university in Hong Kong when World War II broke out and became a B-25 Mitchell bomber pilot, before eventually returning to Malaya and becoming a Singapore Airlines pilot.

The stories of 72 Dutch WWII soldiers buried in Hong Kong are of courage and grit while enduring brutal treatment at Japanese prisoner-of-war camps.

Conservation department has shortlisted Pinewood Battery in Lung Fu Shan Country Park and Shing Mun Redoubt for museum.

City leader John Lee joins event in Central commemorating end of eight-year campaign to repel Japanese invasion and city’s occupation during second world war.

To draw visitors and revive its economy, Hong Kong must recognise that a major part of its selling point is its unique history and culture, including historic buildings, neon signs and the like. Preserving Hong Kong history will help the city tell the Hong Kong story well.

From the first public screenings in 1897 to the first Chinese film shot in the city, the first film studio, the first Cantonese ‘talkie’ and the eventual supremacy of Mandarin-language films, a short history of Hong Kong cinema.

Police called in after man discovers possible Japanese grenade on Saturday morning on Wong Nai Chung Gap Road in Happy Valley.

Field Ambulance Corps volunteer was captured by Japanese invaders and made to do manual labour.

Antiquities Advisory Board to decide on Thursday whether veranda-style shophouse at No 190 Nathan Road should be reclassified as Grade 1 building.

Advocates pushing for preservation of building say structure is city’s only pre-World War II European-style building in Tsim Sha Tsui.

250 volunteers help to recover more than 600 fragments from possible US TBM-1C Avenger jet that crashed in 1945.

Envoy’s heroic deeds went unnoticed until after his death, when daughter pieced together his story.

Son of 98-year-old veteran, one of the two last survivors of the city’s fall in 1941, hopes Hongkongers won’t forget what happened during Japanese occupation.

History enthusiasts who met on Facebook lead tours of wartime sites such as the old Mount Davis gun battery and share personal accounts of the Battle of Hong Kong in a Facebook group.

As many as 90 volunteers lent their efforts to restoration of site overlooking Happy Valley Racecourse where several military graves are located.

A new exhibit hosted by the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong shines light on previously little-known experiences of European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution during World War II.

Amateur historian Craig Mitchell campaigned 10 years for funds, expert help to make dig happen at Tai Tam Country Park

Some visitors to revamped landmark admit being clueless about accounts of hungry poor people and tragedy during Japanese invasion.

HK$1.5 million project by Baptist University includes voices from the past describing painful scenes of terror and brutality.