Hong Kong's Basic Law enshrines a principle of ‘one country, two systems' designed to afford the city a high degree of autonomy -- including its own government structure and judiciary -- until 2047.

On September 24, 1983, after months of investor and consumer unease over the depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar and negotiations about the city’s return to mainland rule, panic selling of the ...

Hong Kong will continue to be governed by the “one country, two systems” principle and retain its common law system indefinitely, well beyond 2047, justice minister Paul Lam Ting-kwok has said ...