Hong Kong has 'changed so much' in the 27 years since handover

HONG KONG -- A few years after the handover of sovereignty over Hong Kong from Britain to China on July 1, 1997, local authorities launched a branding campaign as "Asia's world city." The message was that while control had changed hands, Hong Kong's openness and vibrancy endured.

Now, 27 years after the transfer, former journalist and pro-democracy lawmaker Emily Lau Wai-hing laments how the city has "changed so much [and] that so many people have been imprisoned."