13 May 2013

Having lived in Hong Kong for over 27 years, I have always been keen to follow the political issues and changes of this great city. I am surprised and appalled to see how certain lawmakers are...

1:52AM
22 Apr 2013

Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing has - against government advice - approved more than 700 amendments tabled in the pan-democrats' filibustering bid on the budget bill.

4:52AM
19 Apr 2013

A political issue has, at long last, united pro-establishment lawmakers and mainstream pan-democrats in the legislature - the filibuster. Two fringe groups from pro-democracy camps have filed 751...

2:48AM
16 Apr 2013

The radical faction of the pan-democratic camp will be on their own in the latest filibuster attempt to obstruct the passage of the budget bill next week, after the camp's three major parties...

4:38AM
22 Feb 2013

Legislators should not curse in public, especially not in English. If nothing else, they don't know how to do it properly. Take the case of Lawrence Ma Yan-kwok, who denounced pan-democratic...

4:04AM
6 Feb 2013

Poor Leung Chun-ying. Couldn't even stroll through a Lunar New Year fair without being mobbed.

1:38AM

Lawmaker “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung on Friday lost his appeal against a refusal, by the High Court, to hear his judicial challenge against the president of the Legislative Council.

6:08PM

An Australian was caught shoplifting two packs of condoms, worth of about HK$70, at a convenience store in Electric Road, Tin Hau, at about 4am. 

5:00AM

Leung Chun-ying may have caught many by surprise when he won the top job in dramatic fashion last year, but soothsayer Edward Li Kui-ming saw it coming months before the poll.

4:08AM

Radical lawmaker "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung had his fines tripled for unauthorised assembly during the July 1, 2011 march, after the prosecution sought a harsher penalty yesterday.

10:23AM

The government has dropped charges against guest speakers on a pirate radio station, despite pursuing a prosecution for more than five years.

4:04AM

The Court of Final Appeal yesterday ordered two lawmakers to pay the legal costs incurred by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying during their unsuccessful legal challenge to his election.

4:14AM

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