{"id":100207,"date":"2016-09-13T11:35:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T03:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=100207"},"modified":"2016-09-13T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T03:42:09","slug":"tsang-happy-lose-bet-ce-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/tsang-happy-lose-bet-ce-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsang happy to lose bet on CE race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Yeung \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the pan-democrats\u2019 pledge, outgoing Legislative Council President Tsang Yok-sing said he will put his money on a prediction that there will be a pan-democrat contesting the next chief executive election.<\/p>\n<p>He believes there will \u201cdefinitely\u201d be a \u201cbrave\u201d person being lured by \u201chuge reward\u201d to run. \u201cBoth Central (Hong Kong government) and Western (Central Government\u2019s Liaison Office) are capable of offering the reward.\u201d He did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>That, however, may be a bet Tsang is happy to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'pt serif', georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/09\/13\/tsang-happy-to-lose-bet-on-ce-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/09\/13\/tsang-happy-to-lose-bet-on-ce-race\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Chris Yeung \u2013 Contrary to the pan-democrats\u2019 pledge, outgoing Legislative Council President Tsang Yok-sing said he will put his money on a prediction that there will be a pan-democrat contesting the next chief executive election. He believes there will \u201cdefinitely\u201d be a \u201cbrave\u201d person being lured by \u201chuge reward\u201d to run. \u201cBoth Central&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":100214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17613,8,6855],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/cy0730-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-q4f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107134,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/leungs-salvo-tsang-back-fires\/","url_meta":{"origin":100207,"position":0},"title":"Leung&#8217;s salvo against Tsang back-fires","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"December 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By Chris Yeung The race for the Hong Kong\u2019s top job is getting nasty and ugly with the city\u2019s top three officials locked in a clash over the legal status of four pan-democrat lawmakers whose oaths taken in October are the subject of a judicial review launched by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Chris Yeung&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Chris Yeung","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/category\/column\/chris-yeung\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cy1207.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":111481,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/tsang-combat-mode\/","url_meta":{"origin":100207,"position":1},"title":"Tsang in combat mode","author":"news desk","date":"February 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Chief executive hopeful John Tsang Chun-wah switched to combat mode yesterday. 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