Moderate Hong Kong legislator calls for Chinas trust on reform
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A leading pro-democracy legislator who is in favour with Hong Kong's rulers in China, has urged Beijing to allow a swift transition to full democracy in the former British colony.
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China said Saturday it may allow Hong Kong's leader to be directly elected by 2017 but activists seeking quicker democratic reform in the former British colony criticised the decision.
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The Chinese government's claims of support for legal reform and human rights, and an influx of information about Western legal concepts, have fueled public demands for a more independent judiciary.
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A small but growing band of Chinese lawyers is pushing for reform in the country's courts. The political hurdles are huge, but their case is being heard
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BEIJING, June 26 -- President Hu Jintao, in a solemn speech laying out his views, said that China's swift economic reforms must continue but that the Communist Party should retain its monopoly on political power for the foreseeable future.
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Chinese PM Wen Jiabao urges his country to "have faith" recent bad weather can be overcome, media reports.
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President Hu Jintao of China publicly urged Hong Kong&#39;s leader on Monday to improve his management of the semiautonomous Chinese territory, a comment widely seen as a rebuke.
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The people of Hong Kong voted Sunday in a legislative election that could give pro-democracy figures more clout than they have held since China reclaimed the territory from Britain in July 1997.
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China risks dangerous instability unless it embraces democratic reforms to limit the power of the ruling Communist Party, foster competitive voting and rein in censors, the Party's top think-tank has warned in a new report.
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HONG KONG Turnout is brisk in Hong Kong where voters could give pro-democracy leaders more clout than they&#39;ve had since China reclaimed the area in 1997.
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Leung Kwok-hung regularly disrupts legislative sessions with pro-democracy outbursts. He has shown up to voting centers in a pig mask and Chinese emperor's jacket. Most recently, he burned photos of the Chinese president during the leader's visit to Hong Kong.
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China's security chief has warned judicial departments to stand firm in face of what he described as "hostile forces" of reform, but also urged the judiciary to improve its handling of social unrest.
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Legislative candidates made their final appeals to voters Saturday in a fiercely contested political showdown that could give pro-democracy opposition figures the most clout they&#39;ve had since Hong Kong was returned to China.
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HONG KONG - Fresh from election success, the leader of a pro-government party in Hong Kong said yesterday the time was ripe to revisit a Beijing-mandated anti-subversion Bill put on hold after half a million protesters poured into the streets to oppose it
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Hong Kong's democrats fell short  Monday of expectations in legislative elections after voters  wary of alienating China's communist rulers chose the stability  offered by the Beijing camp.
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By DIKKY SINN  HONG KONG - Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang said Thursday he will seek another term - a five-year period that will likely bring growing pressure for full democracy and cleaner air in the Chinese territory.
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Chinese officials lauded the comfortable majority of the Beijing camp in Hong Kong&#39;s election as a vote for prosperity, but the city&#39;s leading liberal said yesterday China should not doubt the popular desire for democracy.