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UK could offer ‘path to citizenship’ for Hong Kong’s British passport holders

The UK could offer British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong a path to citizenship if China does not suspend plans for a security law in the territory, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says. There are 2.9m people in Hong Kong eligible for the passport.

There are 300,000 BNO passport holders in Hong Kong who already have the right to visit the UK for up to six months without a visa.

But the Home Office confirmed that the proposed new rights, allowing those eligible to spend 12 months in the UK without a visa, could be offered to anyone with BNO status as long as they applied for and were granted the passport – opening it up to 2.9m Hong Kong residents.

British National (Overseas) passports were issued to people in Hong Kong by the UK before the transfer of the territory to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.  Raab said the six-month limit on stays in the UK for BNO holders would be scrapped.

“If China continues down this path and implements this national security legislation, we will remove that six month limit and allow those BNO passport holders to come to the UK and to apply to work and study for extendable periods of 12 months and that will itself provide a pathway to future citizenship,” he said.

This is so good, the best joke next to the Trump announcement.

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Marriott Courtyard hotel

Marriott Shipped from China. The 150-room hotel was unloaded from a cargo ship in Helguvík harbor on the Reykjanes peninsula, Southwest Iceland, and is being assembled a short distance from Keflavík International Airport, This is a new Marriott Courtyard hotel, made up of 78 steel units from China.
Each module, which is processed and renovated in an indoor factory in Guangdong, was shipped from the factory in June 2019, sailing 50 days at sea via container ship from South China through the Malacca Strait, across the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and all the way north to the port of Iceland.
At this time, public areas such as the lobby, restaurant, and parking lot on the ground floor of the hotel are in place with a traditional steel structure. With each module fully furnished, the hotel’s construction is 90% complete, and all that is left is to connect the modules according to the detailed installation guide and instructions from the Chinese production director on site, add the exterior decoration then the 156-room hotel is complete.
It is the first steel modular hotel project in the Icelandic region by CIMC Modular Building Investment Company Limited (“CIMC Modular Building”)中集模块化建筑投资有限公司 http://www.cimc-mbs.com/ who has exported more than 70 modular hotels overseas.