{"id":105533,"date":"2016-11-17T08:57:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T00:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=105533"},"modified":"2016-11-17T09:12:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T01:12:53","slug":"mission-leung-yau-done-ruined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/mission-leung-yau-done-ruined\/","title":{"rendered":"Is mission of Leung, Yau done or ruined?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>If Youngspiration duo Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang and Yau Wai-ching have been seen as political rising stars after their success in the September Legco election, their political stardom faded into darkness following a High Court ruling on Tuesday. Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung ruled they lost their seats after they breached the oath ordinance in their oaths on October 12.<\/p>\n<p>If they had aspired to promote the notion of \u201cself-determination\u201d of Hong Kong as a \u201cnation\u201d at the Legco, their mission failed began it officially started. But if their mission, as conspiracy theorists have touted, was to push the advocacy of a \u201cHong Kong independence\u201d beyond the red line for Beijing to invoke its power to keep it at bay, it is a case of mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Full article<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DRbioxZiFG\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/11\/16\/is-mission-of-leung-yau-done-or-ruined\/\">Is mission of Leung, Yau done or ruined?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/11\/16\/is-mission-of-leung-yau-done-or-ruined\/embed\/#?secret=DRbioxZiFG\" data-secret=\"DRbioxZiFG\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Is mission of Leung, Yau done or ruined?&#8221; &#8212; Voice of Hong Kong\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung If Youngspiration duo Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang and Yau Wai-ching have been seen as political rising stars after their success in the September Legco election, their political stardom faded into darkness following a High Court ruling on Tuesday. Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung ruled they lost their seats after they breached the oath&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":102920,"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\/10\/cy1024.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-rs9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":95778,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/all-eyes-are-on-the-upcoming-legislative-council-election\/","url_meta":{"origin":105533,"position":0},"title":"All eyes are on the upcoming Legislative Council election","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"July 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Chris Yeung - All eyes are on the upcoming Legislative Council election scheduled for September 4. The usual suspects and fresh faces lining up to join the contest have grabbed the limelight. 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