{"id":100968,"date":"2016-09-22T13:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=100968"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T05:06:13","slug":"leungs-tearful-act-helps-little-win-public-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/leungs-tearful-act-helps-little-win-public-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Leung&#8217;s tearful act helps little to win public trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>In shaking voice and tearful eyes, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying thanked yesterday the fleet of civil servants for making their utmost efforts finding land for meeting the city\u2019s housing demand.<\/p>\n<p>But his emotional finale of a press conference he chaired to eradicate conspiracy theory behind a Yuen Long public housing plan was not so well received. His opponents ridiculed his rare outburst as crocodile tears. Fellow citizens seem to be more justifiable feeling sad when they watched the governance of the city going downhill since Leung took power in 2012.<\/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\/22\/leungs-tearful-act-helps-little-to-win-public-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/09\/22\/leungs-tearful-act-helps-little-to-win-public-trust\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Chris Yeung In shaking voice and tearful eyes, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying thanked yesterday the fleet of civil servants for making their utmost efforts finding land for meeting the city\u2019s housing demand. But his emotional finale of a press conference he chaired to eradicate conspiracy theory behind a Yuen Long public housing plan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":100970,"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\/cy0922.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-qgw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":100761,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/row-housing-plan-dims-leung-re-election-hope\/","url_meta":{"origin":100968,"position":0},"title":"Row over housing plan dims Leung re-election hope","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"September 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Chris Yeung Revelation that Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was personally involved in a controversial decision to scale down a public housing project in Wang Chau in Yuen Long is poised to deal a severe blow to his re-election bid. 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