Parliamentary Procedure

23 Nov 2012

Vietnam has passed a new law requiring top elected officials including the prime minister to win the support of parliament in annual votes.

2:42AM

Filibuster motion is stifled by debate

20 Oct 2012

The pro-establishment camp's attempt yesterday to block filibusters on the Legislative Council Finance Committee became mired in a long debate about how to amend the body's procedures.

3:33AM

No need for more Legco meetings

15 Jul 2012

Hong Kong's lawmakers say they do not need to spend extra days at the Legislative Council in future, despite the likelihood that more than 20 motions will lapse when the Legco term ends at...

3:17PM

C.Y.'s new priority: restoring confidence

11 Jul 2012

After months of struggle, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying appears to have given up the fight to expand his ruling team, at least for now. On Monday, the government said its restructuring plan had...

7:46PM

Competition law is only the first step

28 Jun 2012

Thankfully, the long-awaited competition bill was passed by the legislature. Despite weeks of filibuster on other weighty subjects over the past few weeks, lawmakers managed to finish the law...

6:44PM

How to crack the political codes

20 Jun 2012

Politics is crucial; in a well-functioning society, politicians draft and pass policies that affect us. And to make sure those policies reflect what we want, we vote for politicians who best...

5:58PM

Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

If democracy is dead in Hong Kong, blame no one but the democrats

Once upon a time, in a city of seven million people, some activists, who called themselves democrats, kidnapped Democracy. She was dying a slow death.

In the old days, the...

5:38PM

City Digest

300 amendments tabled in new revamp filibuster

5:31PM

After 110 rocky hours, by-election bill passes into law

Legislators set a record in marathon bill-vetting last night, as they voted down the last of the amendments to a controversial by-election bill and passed it into law at the end of a 110-hour...

4:26PM

Mutual destruction

In the past two weeks, the Hong Kong people watching the transgressions of their Legislative Council have collectively experienced every functional adult's recurring nightmare: being stuck in a...

4:03PM

Fili-blustering

Everyone down at Tamar needs to take a chill pill - getting all worked up because of a filibuster that no one seriously thought would end nicely anyway.

4:01PM

Government takes us for fools when it comes to true cost of Legco filibuster

The propensity of the average person to fall for every accusation brought by the administration and the establishment when it comes to the mantra on costs trotted out to stymie opposition to...

3:17PM