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Security Bureau meeting over Manila tragedy claims
Survivors and relatives of victims of last year's Manila hostage tragedy, accompanied by lawmaker James To Kun-sun, will meet officials from the Security Bureau to press the government to declare whether it will use diplomatic channels to help them make claims against the Philippines. This comes after the Chief Executive's Office said last week that Donald Tsang Yam-kuen had no time to meet them and that it was not appropriate for him to intervene over their potential civil claims.
Ceremony commemorates end of second world war
Veterans of the second world war and activists will commemorate the 66th anniversary of Liberation Day, or Victory over Japan Day, at the Cenotaph in Central. The Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands said Japan has not shown, more than six decades after the end of the war, any remorse nor taken any responsibility for the suffering it caused across Asia.
Obama bus hits heartland in bid to recapture hearts
Mired in one of the bleakest patches of his presidency, Barack Obama hits the US heartland, seeking to rekindle the spirit of hope that swept him to the White House but has been crushed by a lame economy. Obama will embark on a fabled ritual of American politics - a bus tour to rural areas of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, which have all felt the lash of the economic crisis. Hope is in short supply, as fears mount that the tepid recovery from the worst economic crisis since the 1930s will fizzle into a second recession. A staggering 74 per cent of Americans think the country is moving in the wrong direction, according to a RealClearPolitics polls average, and a CNN survey this month found 60 per cent think the economy is still in a downturn.