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#BREAKING: Hong Kong chief executive, Carrie Lam, announces to delay the upcoming legislative election, which was scheduled for September 6, citing the unceasing #coronavirus outbreak.
Describing the delay as a "very difficult decision" to make, Mrs Lam has once again invoked the colonial-era Emergency Regulations Ordinance. The last time this ordinance was applied was in early October last year when the chief executive attempted to ban masks in protests.
Mrs Lam says since the #coronavirus pandemic has no sign of subsidence, the pandemic poses "grave public crisis" to Hong Kong. Therefore, holding such an election is "challenging", she adds, because not all voters can participate in the polls fearing the spread of the disease.
However, Mrs Lam admits that she has not discussed with the Electoral Affairs Commission Chairman, Barnabas Fung, on the one-year postponement. But she claims that Mr Fung agrees on such a decision due to an "exponentially larger infection risk".
The legislative election will be postponed until September 5, 2021. Mrs Lam says the Hong Kong government will submit to National People's Congress Standing Committee for an interpretation about how to deal with a vacuum legislature.
The next National People's Congress Standing Committee meeting will take place from August 8 to August 11. H/T: @galileocheng
The central govt in Beijing welcomes the decision made by the Hong Kong govt on the adjournment of the legislative election and says the National People's Congress Standing Committee will decide "according to the law" how to handle the lacuna left in the legislature. Image
Side note: The Emergency Regulations Ordinance says: "On any occasion which the Chief Executive in Council may consider to be an occasion of emergency or public danger he may make any regulations whatsoever which he may consider desirable in the public interest."
Hong Kong justice secretary, Teresa Cheng, carries on that when the election process is resumed afresh in 2021 and that all candidates will need to come under returning officers' scrutiny again. Currently, 12 opposition candidates are barred from running in this year's election.

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#BREAKING: A horrible accident erupted as a Hong Kong singing and dancing boy band was hosting their first concert, injuring at least two dancers. Both were said to be conscious when being sent to the hospital.
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The Wednesday victory of Olympic silver medallist Siobhán Haughey has revealed the very essence of Hong Kong’s decades-long success: openness, pluralism and meritocracy. It doesn’t matter if one is of Chinese descent or European origin. It’s about whether one works hard enough.
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#BREAKING: Beijing will give the “Hong Kong Chief Executive Election Committee the new power to nominate all candidates for Legislative Council members and directly elect some members to the legislature,” Wang Chen, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee vice-chairman.
Instead of the 35:35 balance between the Legislative Council’s geographical and functional constituencies, the overhaul will adopt a new 20:30:40 proportion and divide the legislature into three components, pro-Bejing media HK01 reported. hk01.com/article/595515
Meanwhile, with 40 seats, representatives from the Chief Executive Election Committee will be the most powerful division among the three. As pro-democracy voices are expected to be eradicated in the shake-up, pro-Beijing voices will likely overwhelm the new 90-seat legislature.
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#BREAKING: Beijing is planning to increase the number of seats for the Hong Kong Chief Executive election committee from 1,200 to 1,500, and the Hong Kong Legislative Council from 70 to 90 seats, local news outlet Now News cites sources. #HongKongProtest
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Today is the first day when the new definition of media representative is applied to the police protocol. The new definition disavows credentials from the city’s most acclaimed journalists’ unions the HK Journalists Asso. and the HK Press Photographers Asso.
The police would only acknowledge media which had registered under the Government News and Media Information System and “internationally recognised and reputable” foreign media organisations in the name of “facilitating frontline duties of police officers”.
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One of the 12 illegal border-crossers arrested by China on Aug 23 appeared to be Andy Li, a defendant arrested under the national security law: @RFA_Chinese. Mr Li was arrested the same day media mogul Jimmy Lai @JimmyLaiApple was arrested. He is now detained by Guangdong police.
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However, their boat was stopped as they were en route to Kinmen. It is suspected that Andy Li would want to leave Hong Kong before he had to report to the police on Sept 1, because he would not be granted a court bail if the police took him to the court directly that day.
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