Category: Hong Kong politics
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Just a quick follow-up to what I wrote on Monday on Tsang Yok-sing’s suggestion that a nomination committee should choose the candidates for the next Chief Executive election (with the electorate then able to vote on which of the candidates should get the job). Thursday’s SCMP has a piece from Frank Ching saying that this…
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It must be difficult trying to make the case for the government and the DAB in current circumstances, but there still seem to people willing to do it. Step forward Jasper Tsang and Priscilla Lau! This is from the Hong Kong Standard: Priscilla Lau Pui-king, a Hong Kong deputy to the National People’s Congress, questioned…
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There’s an interesting range of opinions on display with regard to the government’s plans to make it mandatory for packaged food to be labelled with nutritional information. BWG complained that it was pathetic that it was going to take so long to introduce these laws, Phil agreed, but Conrad is totally against the idea: If…
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Phil has already had a go at this, but that’s not going to stop me. Yesterday, Peter Wong Man-kwong (a local deputy to the National People’s Congress) did his best to defend the appointment of district councillors, a practice that was re-introduced by Tung Chee-Hwa after Chris Patten had abandoned it. He said: “Maybe, the…
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Phil has some interesting thoughts on the changing role of politicians in Hong Kong. The story is that a cross-party committee of legislators is concerned that the government has appointed a former civil servant as director of audit in spite of his lack of professional qualifications. After 29 years as a civil servant is he…
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