Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Hong Kong (香港)

陳文敏:倘高鐵擴建 中央在港管轄權勢必擴大 (Johannes Chan: administrative power of central gov’t will be extended if high-speed rail expands)
Mingpao, August 2, 2017
https://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20170802/s00001/1501637714675

An appointment “at all costs”: Choice of education deputy slammed by pro-democracy activists
Hong Kong Free Press, August 1, 2017
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/08/01/appointment-costs-choice-education-deputy-slammed-pro-democracy-activists/

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蔡若蓮任副局 林鄭月娥稱不明為何提升至與教育界開戰 (Carrie Lam on CHOI Yuk-lin: I don’t understand why the appointment issue has escalated and is raging war with the education sector)
Radio Television Hong Kong, August 2, 2017
http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1345802-20170802.htm

Plug Hong Kong’s legal loopholes on human-trafficking and forced labor, legislator tells officials
South China Morning Post, August 1, 2017
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2105007/plug-hong-kongs-legal-loopholes-human-trafficking-and-forced