The humble postbox, as much a legacy of British rule as railways and cricket, has become the latest target of Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing establishment.
The Hong Kong authorities plan to cover up royal insignias on colonial-era postboxes, deeming them inappropriate. But the move is stirring another clash with activists who say it is undermining the city’s autonomy.
Campaigners are asking why it is only now, 18 years after the territory was returned to China, that the Post Office wants to change the remaining 59 colonial postboxes, a small fraction of the more than 1,100 in use.
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