Genuine universal suffrage is only based on the BASIC LAW & by the framework set-up by the mainland government....................................
So what do you have to say on your own Mr. CY Leung ? We just wonder when a person like this is speaking so much with a "mainland mouth" - what is your job then here in HKG ? Preparing us for 2046 - you will not be here anymore, many of us also - but our children & grandchildren will be here at that year and after. Lets hope the "concrete heads" in Beijing some day start recognizing what is the real world around them.....Being a member in the UN security council & stopping 3 students from going to Beijing - what are they scared of ?
Here that wonderful speech of CY Leung during today MTR Island extension ceremony ! Sorry CY it will not be the last time somebody will bother you during your public appearances.
Protesters shouted slogans demanding true democracy at CY Leung
Protesters at the ceremony. Photo: Stella Tsang
About a dozen members from the League of Social Democrats have staged a protest in Kennedy Town, where the Chief Executive CY Leung was officiating an opening ceremony for the MTR's West Island Line. They shouted slogans demanding genuine universal suffrage and calling on Mr Leung to step down. In his speech, Mr Leung said there are always people who think that by being loud, they're speaking the truth. He said the only genuine universal suffrage is that based on the Basic Law and the framework set out by Beijing.The rail line will officially open Sunday with the first train starting at 6am.
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THIS BLOG IS NOT ANY KIND OF POLITICAL STATEMENT NOR ANY KIND OF CONFESSION. THIS BLOG JUST WANT TO MIRROR WHAT IS HAPPENING IN HONG KONG. RECENTLY NOT SO MANY GOOD NEWS TO MIRROR - RATHER NEGATIVE & NOT VERY GOOD FOR THE NORMAL HONG KONG PEOPLE. ONCE AGAIN WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT IN THE UP-COMING BUDGET SPEECH WE ARE VERY MUCH WORRIED THE GOVERNMENT WILL USE OCCUPY CENTRAL IN NOT GIVING ANYTHING BACK TO HONG KONG TAXPAYERS OR HONG KONG GRASSROT PEOPLE !
HERE THE NEWS FROM TODAY:
GREEDY PEOPLE RUNNING AFTER BANKNOTES BEING SPILLED OUT FROM A TRANSPORT VEHICLE YESTERDAY IN WAN CHAI !
MONG KOK ALREADY HAD FIGHTING LAST NIGHT AGAIN - IT IS NOT OVER.
WE ALL HOPE YOU FIND SOME NICE FRIENDS IN PRISON MR HUI & MR KWOK. BE AWARE THERE IS NO EXPENSIVE RED WINE & FOOD IS ONLY SO SO.......ENJOY YOUR STAY. WE VERY MUCH HOPE YOU ONLY GET STANDARD TREATMENT !
MR. HUI & MR. KWOK NOW IN JAIL - WE DO NOT CRY, WE DO NOT FEEL MERCY FOR THEM. THIS IS THE KIND OF PEOPLE THE NORMAL HONG KONG PEOPLE ARE VERY TIRED OFF.
Hong Kong property tycoon and former official jailed for corruption
Sun Hung Kai magnate Thomas Kwok and Rafael Hui, former deputy leader, sentenced after seven-month bribery trial
Thomas Kwok, former chairman of Hong Kong's biggest property company, Sun Hung Kai, was sentenced to five years. Photograph: AFP/Getty
Hong Kong’s former deputy leader Rafael Hui and property tycoon Thomas Kwok have been jailed after being convicted of corruption.
Hui, 66, was sent to prison on Tuesday for seven and a half years after being found guilty of five graft charges, including misconduct in a public office, making him the highest-ranking official in Hong Kong’s history to be convicted of taking bribes.
Kwok, 63 – who was joint chairman of Hong Kong’s biggest property company, Sun Hung Kai – was sentenced to five years after he was found guilty of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office over a series of payments totalling HK$8.5m to Hui.
The seven-month trial centred on a total of HK$34m in handouts which the prosecution said were made to Hui by Kwok and his billionaire brother, Raymond, to be their “eyes and ears” in government.
Raymond Kwok was cleared of all charges and Thomas cleared of two of the three against him.
Judge Andrew Macrae told Hui before sentencing: “To know that the former number two in government had received bribes must be a deep disappointment to many people in Hong Kong,” he said. “It is vitally important in these times the Hong Kong government and business community remain and are seen to remain corruption free, particularly when the mainland is taking obvious and positive steps to eradicate the cancer of corruption in their own jurisdiction.”
In sentencing Kwok, he said he had no doubt that he was “at heart a good man”. Macrae said he had considered a maximum sentence of six years but handed down one year less to account for Kwok’s good character.
Before the sentencing hearing, Macrae had described the case as difficult. “One is dealing with otherwise decent men who are not young, but who have committed serious offences,” he said, adding that going to prison would be a “particular hardship” for the defendants.
The payments to Hui were said to have been made via a series of complicated transactions involving middlemen.
Two middlemen, Sun Hung Kai former director Thomas Chan and Francis Kwan – the former non-executive director of investment firm New Environmental Energy Holdings – were also found guilty of two charges. Chan was sentenced to six years while Kwan was given five years.
