This file photo taken on June 30, 1997 shows three British soldiers of the Black Watch lowering the Union Jack flag for the last time at the Cenotaph monument in the Central district of Hong Kong just hours prior to the end of some 156 years of British colonial rule as the territory returns to Chinese control at midnight. Nearly 20 years after Hong Kong was returned to China, the British army is back -- this time to train the city’s police force on crucial matters of pomp and ceremony. Four British army personnel drilled Hong Kong police officers on ceremonial standards, the first such arrangement since the former British colony was handed back to Beijing in 1997, reports said on December 29, 2016. AFP photo
HONG KONG: Nearly 20 years after Hong Kong was returned to China, the British army is back -- this time to train the city’s police force on crucial matters of pomp and ceremony.