Compared with the controversy surrounding fellow executive councillor Franklin Lam Fan-keung last year, the political fallout from the investigation of Barry Cheung Chun-yuen's Hong Kong...
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21 May 2013
Lawmakers want the Executive Council's declaration-of-interest system to include its members' liabilities as well as assets, amid the controversy over Exco member Barry Cheung Chun-yuen and his...
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11 May 2013
The leaked memo, which first appeared in a Chinese-language newspaper, said: "From June 1, an assessment on mainland perception and related public relations measures will become … mandatory … for...
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A confidential Executive Council memo that requires all future policy proposals to factor in the likely mainland reaction has sparked concern that the government is putting mainland interests...
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22 Feb 2013
A special Executive Council meeting will be held today to discuss amending import and export laws to tackle the problem of parallel-goods trading, a source said last night. The changes -proposed...
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12 Feb 2013
Lam Woon-kwongs efforts as chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission earned praise from activists, but his return to government service as Executive Council convenor has dragged him into a...
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Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has made hundreds of decisions over the past seven months, some good, some bad and some indifferent. No doubt he will make many thousands more.
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New People’s Party chairwoman Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee on Tuesday suggested listing infant milk formula as a reserve commodity to maintain a sufficient supply to Hong Kong babies.
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Failure? It was a victory of common sense. We were being asked to pay HK$7 billion to preserve an ugly, squat 1920s building of no historical significance and the Executive Council decided it wasn...
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How do you turn a muddle into an extraordinary mess? It's easy - join the administration of Leung Chun-ying. Let us momentarily set aside the mounting controversies confronting the government and...
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In his 20 years as a property analyst, Franklin Lam Fan-keung was known as a "super-bull" for his knack of producing spot-on assessments. But his judgment has been lacking recently in the china...
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Let us assume for one moment that Franklin Lam Fan-keung, the most recent of the scandal-hit government appointees, has a perfectly believable story, namely that when selling two properties just...
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