Word: chee
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...last year, attracting some 500,000 people. Police put the figure at 200,000, although they admit that could be a low estimate. Either way, no one expected anything near the actual turnout?and the reaction in Hong Kong was swift and amazed. Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, one of the protesters' main punching bags?they distributed inflatable bludgeons imprinted with his caricature?was compelled to praise the march as "harmonious, with a touch of joyousness." The day after the march, a group of pro-democracy legislators asked Tung to request Beijing to reverse its decision in April...
...official in 2007 and all of Legco in 2008, the process of altering election laws has to begin soon. More importantly, public pressure is intensifying. Last July, half a million people took to Hong Kong's streets to protest security legislation proposed by the government of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. That bill has since been shelved indefinitely. But almost overnight the movement rallied to a new demand: direct elections. And now Beijing wants to rule on that issue. Its concern is that direct elections will define the debate during the next round of polls for Legco, set for September...
...Hong Kong (DAB); as the party's chairman, after the DAB won just 30% of the seats it contested in last month's District Council elections; in Hong Kong. Tsang and the DAB have been tainted by their close association with Hong Kong's Beijing-appointed Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, who has been strongly criticized by the public for his handling of, among other issues, the economy and the SARS crisis. Tsang underestimated the growing desire of many Hong Kongers for more democracy: last week he admitted that "my behavior and performance have contributed to the DAB's negative...
...Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa announced on Friday that he was shelving a proposed set of statutes on subversion, secession and sedition that he had tried railroading through earlier this year?until 500,000 Hong Kongers took to the streets on July 1 to protest. Tung wouldn't say when he might reintroduce the bills, or even whether he expects to pass them before his second term ends...
...APPOINTED. HENRY TANG and AMBROSE LEE, as Hong Kong's financial and security secretaries, respectively, after a shake-up of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's Cabinet last month; in Hong Kong. The appointments followed the resignation of two officials after large protests against Tung's leadership and proposed security legislation...