{"id":94648,"date":"2016-07-11T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=94648"},"modified":"2016-07-20T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T06:00:38","slug":"icac-shake-up-sets-to-erode-trust-in-leung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/icac-shake-up-sets-to-erode-trust-in-leung\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAC shake-up sets to erode trust in Leung"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>It can only be fair for Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and Executive Council Convenor Lam Woon-kwong to appeal legislators not to oppose the government and its proposals just because they did not like the chief executive, namely Leung Chun-ying.<\/p>\n<p>But as the pair made the appeal on Saturday, claims by the Democratic Party about Leung having interfered with a senior appointment of ICAC and delayed in assisting a probe into his alleged wrongdoing in the UGL case have shed some light on why the Leung factor did matter in the governance conundrum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Full article:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/07\/11\/icac-shake-up-sets-to-erode-public-trust-in-leung\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/07\/11\/icac-shake-up-sets-to-erode-public-trust-in-leung\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Chris Yeung It can only be fair for Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and Executive Council Convenor Lam Woon-kwong to appeal legislators not to oppose the government and its proposals just because they did not like the chief executive, namely Leung Chun-ying. But as the pair made the appeal on Saturday, claims&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":94684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17613,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cy0711_em-752x440.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-oCA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":94852,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/icac-chief-leung-raise-more-questions-in-shake-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":94648,"position":0},"title":"ICAC chief, Leung raise more questions in shake-up","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"July 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By Chris Yeung In his attempt to rebuke claims that his decision to end the acting role of Rebecca Li Bo-lan as head of the operations department was politically motivated, Commissioner Simon Pei Yun-lu has done the opposite. 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