A former district councillor previously jailed for theft has admitted stealing more than HK$300,000 from 57 people and gambling away their money instead of organising advertised tours to Macau...
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The city's 18 district councils are being urged to cut down on the use of paper - currently well over two million pages a year - while increasing transparency by posting more documents online....
Former North District councillor Au Wai-kwan, 58, was found guilty in the District Court of falsely claiming to have spent HK$737,000 on the salaries of two assistants. Au had pleaded not guilty...
Government-appointed district councillors yesterday said a constitutional reform proposal which could rob them of their right to stand for and elect their colleagues in Legislative Council...
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The government will consider extending an end-of-service gratuity and medical allowance to district councillors. As of the current Legislative Council, lawmakers are entitled to such a...
It's democrat paranoia again, but they always insist we don't have 'one country, two systems'. The latest complaint is from lawmaker Kam Nai-wai about a footbridge being built by the foreign...
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