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HONG KONG’S TOP NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICER UNDER INVESTIGATION
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- Hong Kong’s top national security officer under investigation.
- The head of the police National Security Department is alleged of owning an unlicensed massage business.
- An unlicensed massage business is an offense th...
HONG KONG GOVT. BUYS BROADCASTING RIGHTS OF TOKYO GAMES
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- Hong Kong govt. buys broadcasting rights of Tokyo games.
- Hong Kong government signed the contract on the rights last Friday with Japan’s Dentsu Inc.
- Dentsu Inc. is the only company that holds the exclusive rights to...
HONG KONG WILL NOT OBLIGATE FOEIGN DOMESTIC WORKERS TO BE VACCINATED
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- Hong Kong will not obligate foreign domestic workers to be vaccinated.
- Most of the domestic workers in the country come from Indonesia and the Philippines.
- Indonesia and the Philippines are both severely impacted by the p...
CHINA FINALISED DUE CHANGES IN HONG KONG’S ELECTORAL SYSTEM
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- China finalised due changes in Hong Kong’s electoral system.
- Candidates for public office and work with national security authorities will be monitored by a new committee.
- Beijing imposed the new security legislatio...
CARRIE LAM SAYS HONG KONG WELCOMES ELECTORAL REFORMS
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- Carrie Lam says Hong Kong welcomes electoral reforms.
- The future Hong Kong leader will have the freedom to choose a large part of the legislature.
- Around half of the Hong Kong legislature is elected directly by voters.
CARRIE LAM DEFENDS CHINESE POLITICIANS ON LOYALTY REMARKS SAYING HE DID NOT MEAN END OF DEMOCRACY
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- Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam has dismissed that major political changes arranged by Beijing are expected to smother favorable to vote based system legislators after a senior Chinese authority announced that only "loyalists" sho...
HONG KONG WILL ASK POLITICIANS TO PLEDGE LOYALTY TO GOVT OR FACE BAN
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- Hong Kong will present new necessities for region councilors to make a vow promising to maintain the Basic Law and vow faithfulness to the public authority
The individuals who disregard their vows will be banished from the political ...
LAM CONFIRMS SPEAKING LIBERTY IN HONG KONG WILL BE MADE BALANCED UNDER NEW LAW
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- CEO Carrie Lam affirmed on Tuesday that the Hong Kong government is thinking about a law against offending police and other public officials, however, said it has no firm plans at this point
Any enactment would require a "...
HONGKONGERS DUAL CITIZENS BANNED FROM FOREIGN CONSULAR HELP
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- Hongkongers with double citizenship will no more qualified for unfamiliar consular help, the city's chief has said, affirming admonitions by western negotiators that specialists have started carefully authorizing Chinese identity guidelines <...
CARRIE LAM EXPECTS NEW US GOVERNMENT WILL HEAR HONG KONG FAIRLY
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- Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has advised US media she is hopeful that the Biden organization will give her administration a reasonable hearing concerning the public security law
She additionally lauded the part in Hong ...
CHINA SAYS HONG KONG MUST BE RULED BY LOYALISTS FOR PROSPERITY
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- China's chief Xi Jinping has disclosed to Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam that the locale should be governed by loyalists for its security and thriving, as indicated by state-run outlet Xinhua
His remarks were made during La...
HONGKONGER IN LONDON WROTE CHIEF CARRIE LAM TO RETHINK BARRING UK FLIGHTS
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- A London-based Hong Kong resident has composed an open letter to the city's chief to review the restriction on UK trips amid fears over a Covid strain in Britain
As per the letter routed to Chief Executive Carrie Lam passed onlin...
HONG KONG’S COVID HANDOUTS FAVORED LABOUR BUSINESSES; CARRIE LAM SAYS SHE WILL BE THE FIRST TO TEST SINOVACCINE
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- Dairy Farm, Kowloon Motor Bus, and Maxim's were among the top beneficiaries of presents from the public authority's Employment Support Scheme pointed toward saving employment during the Covid-19 pandemic, a dissident financial specialist says<...
HK GOVERNMENT UPROARED MEETING BETWEEN HK ACTIVIST AND UK GOVERNMENT
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- Hong Kong's administration has scrutinized a gathering in London between Britain's home secretary and HK activists at which the city's flag was visible
An assertion disagreed with the gathering between activists including...
CARRIE LAM UPENDS INCLUSION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE IN ANTI-BRIBERY LAW, AS PROMISED BY HER IN 2017
CARRIE LAM SAID BRIBERY LAW WILL NOT BE CHANGED IN HER TENURE AS PROMISED BY HER
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- Hong Kong's chief has backtracked on a promise to broaden anti-bribery law so it covers her work, saying such a move would raise established issues
Carrie ...
CARRIE LAM SAID US-SANCTIONS DOES NOT AFFECT HER; HK LEGISLATORS TO TAKE OATH OF LOYALTY
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- CEO Carrie Lam has said that she has been compelled to keep heaps of money around her home after she was sanctioned by the US
Lam told the Hong Kong International Business Channel that she was a pioneer who has no financial administr...
HK DEMOCRACY MEMBERS CONDEMNED THE POLICY ADDRESS CALLING IT A PROGRESS CARD MEANT AS REPORT TO CHINA
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- Calling it less 2020 Policy Address and more progress report, democrats of the city have bashed Carrie Lam for her remarks in her latest policy address
They described it as the presentation of her delayed report to the Chinese govern...
CARRIE LAM’S POLICY ADDRESS ON “NO DEMOCRATIC REFORM” GOT LOWEST TRP’S
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- Hong Kong pioneer Carrie Lam has said she has no arrangement for Hong Kong popularity based change in the rest of her term
The CEO told correspondents that she had "fantasized" about appointive change in 2017 when she origi...
KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF POLICY ADDRESS 2020:- CARRIE LAM ON TOURISM, EMPLOYMENT, AND LEGCO 2021
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- Carrie Lam in her policy address 2020 mentioned the upliftment of Hong Kongers with opportunities to work in the mainland. She announced HK$430 million for the monetary scheme
She went on in her speech about the financial and economi...
HONG KONG CHIEF PLEDGES TO REMOVE CHAOTIC FORCES FROM THE CITY IN HER POLICY ADDRESS
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- Hong Kong Chief addressed the first time after a long time with no hurdles, protests, in the legislative council
She said the city had become a notorious child that needed disciplinary actions which the National Security Law has brou...