{"id":103517,"date":"2016-10-28T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=103517"},"modified":"2016-10-28T10:33:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:33:41","slug":"woo-adds-woes-cy-leung-election-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/woo-adds-woes-cy-leung-election-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Woo adds woes to CY Leung in election battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>While calling on his team members to focus on the next policy and budget blueprints yesterday, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was doing the opposite, setting his targets at his potential rivals in the next chief executive race.<\/p>\n<p>First, it was Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah.\u00a0The second target was retired senior judge Woo Kwok-hing, who formally announced his election campaign yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Full article:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/10\/27\/woo-adds-woes-to-cy-leung-in-election-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/10\/27\/woo-adds-woes-to-cy-leung-in-election-battle\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Chris Yeung While calling on his team members to focus on the next policy and budget blueprints yesterday, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was doing the opposite, setting his targets at his potential rivals in the next chief executive race. First, it was Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah.\u00a0The second target was retired senior judge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":101411,"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\/cy0929.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-qVD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":109036,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/chief-executive-sense-humour-please\/","url_meta":{"origin":103517,"position":0},"title":"Chief executive with a sense of humour, please","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"January 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By Kannas Wu \u2013 To ABC (Anyone But CY) supporters, Christmas came early this year. 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