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...Cheng Li-chun, a former culture minister and Lai confidante, will be Cho’s deputy and in charge of implementing reform proposals from Lai’s campaign platform which she helped draft....
...“Taiwan is getting stronger and stronger in global tech manufacturing and especially in chips,” said Wu Chun-han, a hardware electronics engineer....
...“It’s obvious [the authorities] have commenced targeting lawyers who are providing support to political prisoners in Hong Kong,” said Eric Yan-ho Lai of the Georgetown Center for Asian Law....
...I have to stay true to myself,” said Jerome Lau, 72, outside the courtroom. Additional reporting by Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong...
...Chao Chun-shan, a China scholar who has advised four successive Taiwanese presidents on cross-Strait relations, predicts that Beijing will massively step up such tactics right after the elections....
...In August last year, a friend of Mo’s named Shiu Ka-chun received a letter from her, which he shared excerpts from on social media....
...Lau Siu-kai, vice-chair of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macau Studies based in Beijing, insisted there would “still be space” for reporting that was critical of the government....
...Tang Yu-chun, 72, is another “cardboard granny” who collects cardboard almost every day, starting at the break of dawn and often working until early evening....
...Smart reads Under attack China has cracked down on Hong Kong but its forced closure of Jimmy Lai’s respected pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily shows just how far Beijing is willing to go....
...Since the law’s introduction in June, police have arrested high-profile opposition figures such as activists Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow as well as Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy media tycoon....
...Young painters like Chen Yun, Lai Wei-Yu, Shih Yung-Chun, Sun Pei-Mao and Wang Guan-Jhen appreciate the symbiotic relationship between young artists and young collectors....
...The court ruled lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung, Nathan Law, Lau Siu-lai and Edward Yiu had failed to take their oaths correctly when sworn in in October following city-wide elections....
...Using language redolent of the Cultural Revolution, Lau Siu-kai, vice-chairman of China’s leading think-tank on Hong Kong affairs, warned that if universities did not shut down the independence talk then...
...The two other lawmakers removed were Edward Yiu and Lau Siu-lai....
...Shirley So, 40, who voted for Lau Siu-lai, another localist lawmaker in Kowloon West, whose seat is also threatened, is upset with Ms Yau and Mr Leung for drawing the intervention by Beijing....
...For example, Kevin Lau Chun-to, the former editor of Ming Pao, a newspaper critical of Beijing, was brutally attacked with a meat cleaver....
...In January, Kevin Lau was stabbed by unknown assailants in the street, just days after being replaced as editor of Ming Pao, a local daily....
...With the protests, the impact seems to be short-term,” says Kevin Lai at Daiwa Securities. “The biggest risk is still the Fed’s policy tightening. There will be a lot of money outflows as a result.”...
...Leung Chun-ying, the pro-Beijing chief executive, will face an uphill battle persuading Democrats to back the proposal....
...“I think it’s basically the criminalisation of politics or activism,” says Mark Simon, a top Lai lieutenant....
...It has been under discussion for years but the new push comes just weeks into a new administration under Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying, who has close ties with the mainland....
...“He has consistently said that he thinks Hong Kong has a shortage of affordable housing,” says Man Lai Foon, a middle-aged refuse collector....
...Of the two most favoured candidates, Leung Chun-ying is leading the opinion polls because he is seen to be more detached from local conglomerates than his scandal-hit rival Henry Tang....
...But Lau Yui-siu, a political commentator familiar with mainland politics, said: “Beijing could hold the view that this has been good practice for Hong Kong’s political evolution....
...Leung Chun-ying, the man who beat Mr Tang to office in March, says he will change this....
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