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Legco debates HK-mainland friction
Legco discusses Hongkongers' resentment towards mainlanders visiting the city, with constitutional and mainland affairs chief Raymond Tam Chi-yuen replying to questions tabled by lawmaker Cyd Ho Sau-lan. Ho has asked for the government's views on, among other matters, comments by Peking University Professor Kong Qingdong (left) likening Hongkongers to dogs and colonial lackeys. She has also asked the government what it has done in the past 10 years to publicise on the mainland the city's 'edge in the rule of law' and to state 'what specific work the authorities will undertake to resolve the conflicts of culture and identity'.
Finance chief provides budget briefing
Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah speaks on the 2012-13 budget in an address to a Joint Business Community luncheon at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai. Some lawmakers have berated Tsang for neglecting the city's neediest but he has defended the city's priority of running a huge budget surplus as a bulwark against bad economic times.
London holds disaster exercise in lead-up to Games
Security forces engage in a two-day exercise involving 2,500 people centring on a mock emergency on London's subway system in preparation for the Olympics later this year. The security test envisions that an emergency takes place on the busiest days of the Games, which run from July 27 to August 12. Authorities declined to disclose the exact scenario.
