Chief Executive

Elsie Leung suggests threshold for Hong Kong's top job

1 May 2013

Support from an eighth of nominating committee members could be a possible threshold for aspirants to enter the chief executive election under universal suffrage, Elsie Leung Oi-sie says.

5:47AM

12 comments

Town Planning Board not 'obsequious'

22 Apr 2013

I refer to Alex Lo's column ("Planning watchdog on a tight leash", April 17) in which various doubts over the Town Planning Board are raised. I am obliged to state the facts.

1:58AM

Letters to the Editor, April 22, 2013

22 Apr 2013

I refer to John Shannon's letter in which he stated that the decision in the foreign domestic helpers' right of abode case was unjust. I don't think the Court of Final Appeal's decision can be...

1:58AM

2 comments

Reform should evoke the spirit of 1997

20 Apr 2013

The death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher brought back memories of the marathon talks between China and Britain over the handover of Hong Kong that took place during her term in...

3:23AM

4 comments

Patriots can be Beijing critics too, liberal judge Kemal Bokhary says

18 Apr 2013

Criticism of the mainland in areas one dislikes does not amount to being unpatriotic - a trait Beijing officials have signalled should disqualify one from vying for chief executive - a liberal...

8:48AM

10 comments

Planning watchdog on a tight leash

17 Apr 2013

Is the Town Planning Board a watchdog or a lapdog for the government? If you read the relevant ordinance, it is tasked with looking after the health, safety, convenience and general welfare of the...

3:25AM

3 comments

Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

2:53PM

Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

3:55AM

Hong Kong's top job: campaigners for democracy in China need not apply

Members of a Hong Kong group calling for democracy on the mainland should refrain from standing for chief executive in 2017, said an academic behind the Occupy Central protest plan which is...

4:29AM

3 comments

Focus fight on who picks the candidates for chief executive

In dealing with complex issues, the sage advises, look for that underlying issue to illuminate and move things forward. The escalating war of words between the pan-democrats and mainland officials...

2:33AM

25 comments

Focus on nomination rules for 2017 election

There is frankly too much noise in the so-called debate over the methods for electing our next chief executive, so called because what has been said isn't much more than politicking and/or...

5:03AM

LEADER

Time to listen to voices of reason in chief executive election

Voices of reason are necessary. Such people may not see eye-to-eye politically, but they can guide the discussion. That is what democracy advocate and former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-...

3:03AM

What's wrong with requiring the Hong Kong chief executive to be patriotic?

Although the central government and Hong Kong citizens have reached a mutual consensus that there will be universal suffrage, how the chief executive election in 2017 should be conducted has...

3:20AM

4 comments

Qiao Xiaoyang's topsy-turvy understanding of democracy

Many people will agree with Qiao Xiaoyang, chairman of the Law Committee of the National People's Congress, when he says Hong Kong's chief executive must be someone who "loves the country and...

3:20AM

2 comments