{"id":107134,"date":"2016-12-07T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T01:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=107134"},"modified":"2016-12-07T09:09:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T01:09:35","slug":"leungs-salvo-tsang-back-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/leungs-salvo-tsang-back-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Leung’s salvo against Tsang back-fires"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n

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 Government.<\/p>\n

A political storm erupted on Monday after Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah refused to take questions from four lawmakers \u2013 Nathan Law Kwun-chung, \u201cLong Hair\u201d Leung Kwok-hung, Lau Siu-lai and Edward Yiu Chung-yim \u2013 at a Legco panel meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  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 Government. A political storm erupted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":107136,"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\/12\/cy1207.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-rRY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":117409,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/democracy-promise-forgotten-short-termism\/","url_meta":{"origin":107134,"position":0},"title":"Democracy promise forgotten in ‘short-termism’","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"April 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"On December 29, 2007, disgraced chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was at a peak of his political career after being re-elected for a full five-year term. 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