Sarah Lee Wai-sze wins a bronze medal in the women’s keirin at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Hong Kong’s first ever Olympic medal in a cycling event.
(Photos courtesy of Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China)

Sarah Lee Wai-sze wins a bronze medal in the women’s keirin at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Hong Kong’s first ever Olympic medal in a cycling event.
(Photos courtesy of Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China)

The Chief Executive, Mr C Y Leung (at right), swears in members of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government on 1 July 2012.

The Tiangong-1/Shenzhou-9 astronauts, (from right) Mr Liu Wang, Mr Jing Haipeng and Ms Liu Yang (China’s first female astronaut), visited Hong Kong in August.

President Hu Jintao meets workers at the Kai Tak Development during his visit to Hong Kong in June.

Votes are counted for the Legislative Council election in September.

Protesters against government proposals on national education make their views known outside the Central Government Offices in September.

The then Chief Executive, Mr Donald Tsang (right), with the President of Indonesia, Dr H Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, at Government House in March.

City Hall celebrated its 50th anniversary with a commemorative exhibition in March.

Government officials and staff observe three minutes’ silence on 4 October in respect for those who lost their lives in a collision between two passenger vessels off Lamma Island on 1 October.

Notes of condolence for victims of the Lamma ferry tragedy are posted at the Lamma Island pier in Central.