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Ng Kang-chung

Hong Kong will observe two more memorial days from this year to commemorate landmarks in the Sino-Japanese conflict during the second world war.
The Hong Kong government yesterday announced that official ceremonies would be held annually on September 3 to mark China's victory in the war with Japan and on December 13 to mourn those killed in the Nanking massacre.
This follows the National People's Congress Standing Committee's decision earlier this year to designate the two days as national memorial days.
The victory celebration will be held a week today in the City Hall Memorial Garden in Central.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, senior government officials, judicial officers, legislators, representatives of war veterans will attend.
Before the handover in 1997, Hong Kong observed Liberation Day on the last Monday of August, and it was a public holiday. After 1997, it became the Sino-Japanese War Victory Day, and ceased to be a holiday. A ceremony to mark the day is held during the Chung Yeung festival in October, a public holiday.
Despite the additional memorial days, the government said the memorial ceremony during the Chung Yeung festival to honour the war dead would continue to be held. Details of the Nanking massacre memorial day would be announced later, the government said.
China maintains that Japanese troops slaughtered more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians during a six-week campaign of terror, beginning on December 13, 1937, known as the Nanking massacre.
Green Sense president Roy Tam Hoi-pong, an opponent of Hong Kong's integration with the mainland, questioned the need for two more memorial days.
"Under the 'one country, two systems' principle, Hong Kong should be able to decide on its own whether to follow China in observing the memorial days," he said.


Two new memorial days to be observed to mark China's resistance during the second world war

The City Hall Memorial Garden in Central. Photo: SCMP

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Hong Kong will observe two more memorial days from this year to commemorate landmarks in the Sino-Japanese conflict during the second world war.


Two new memorial days to be observed to mark China's resistance during the second world war

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Hong Kong will observe two more memorial days from this year to commemorate landmarks in the Sino-Japanese conflict during the second world war.

Hong Kong will observe two more memorial days from this year to commemorate landmarks in the Sino-Japanese conflict during the second world war.