Talking points
Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...
World leaders will attend ceremonies commemorating the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, which turned the tide in the second world war. Among those attending are US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will come face-to-face with newly elected Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko. Observers will be seeing how leaders interact with Putin given tensions over Ukraine.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Italy and the Vatican following the G7 summit in Brussels. Abe meets with his Italian counterpart, Matteo Renzi, to discuss free-trade negotiations between Japan and the European Union. They may also discuss tensions between Japan and China. Abe is scheduled to meet Pope Francis in the Vatican.
A memorial is unveiled in Yangon for 17 South Korean officials killed in a bombing in Myanmar by North Korean agents in 1983. The US$712,000 memorial is at the Aung San National Cemetery. South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se is attending the ceremony with 23 relatives of the dead and other officials. Those who died were accompanying then-president Chun Doo-hwan on an official visit to Myanmar.
Democratic Party chairwoman Emily Lau Wai-hing and several colleagues meet University of Hong Kong economist Richard Wong Yue-chim to discuss the election of the chief executive in 2017. Wong was one of 13 academics who put forward a compromise reform proposal, whereby the size of the nominating committee would be doubled to 2,400 members. Half of the members would be returned by registered voters.
The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce holds its annual general meeting. Incumbent officers, including chairman Chow Chung-kong, will hold a press conference before the meeting. They are expected to take questions on the Occupy Central movement, political reform and the state of the economy. Members will have a chance to hear about the Qianhai special zone in Shenzhen at a lunch meeting.
US photographer Jeff Widener gives a speech at the University of Hong Kong museum on his iconic photograph of the man who stepped in front of four tanks in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. Widener will speak about the changing art of photojournalism. The event coincides with an exhibition of 12 photos, including the famous image, of the political events in Beijing at that time.
