The pulse [2013]
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22:01 1. New Year's Day protests ; Interview with Emily Lau, Leader of the Democratic Party
2013-01-04
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"It hasn't been a peaceful new year holiday for the government, and particularly Chief Executive Leung Chung-ying, with groups out on the streets both protesting against, and demonstrating for the est...
21:49 2. Impeaching the Chief Executive ; Southern Weekly protests ; Judicial independence
2013-01-11
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"This week on The Pulse we look at the pro-democrats' attempt to impeach Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, the protests over censorship at Guangzhous Southern Weekly, and hear from some of the Hong Kon...
21:37 3. The Policy Address: housing, the middle class, no consultation on gay rights
2013-01-18
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"This week, inevitably, we focus on the maiden Policy Address of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. The CEs main priority was housing, although many of his propsals will not bear fruit util after this t...
21:26 4. Privacy, the Companies Ordinance, and the public right to know ; Kindergarten rat-race ; Alliance for Universal Suffrage on a Break
2013-01-25
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"The Hong Kong government has proposed amendments that will make tracing the personal details of company directors via the Hong Kong Companies Registry more difficult. This comes as several news repor...
21:49 5. Freedom of Information ; No thanks for the Policy Address
2013-02-01
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"Since the 1940s and 1950s most developed countries worldwide have enacted legislation designed to facilitate Freedom of Information and access to public records. To this day, the Hong Kong government...
21:47 6. A threat to press freedom? ; Baby milk wars ; China's disappearing bilions
2013-02-08
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"On Thursday, the Hong Kong Economic Journal published a statement clarifying an earlier commentary by former Central Policy Unit member Joseph Lian. The article had repeated allegations from Lew Mon-...
21:46 7. Civil servants' building societies ; Chinese New Year around the world ; Chef Andy ; Welcome Year of the Snake
2013-02-15
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"In the 1960s, while working as a civil servant, Hui Lan-sais husband and his colleagues formed a cooperative society to buy a site in Cheung Sha Wan from the government. on which to build their homes...
21:42 8. Credibility wars ; David Webb on financial transparency ; House News ; An Afghan journalist in Hong Kong
2013-02-22
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"It's no surprise that, with the support of the pro-establishment camp in the Legislative Council, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying will not have to face any Legco inquiry transparent to the general pu...
21:58 9. 2013-2014 Budget ; Recycling glass bottles
2013-03-01
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"We begin with this this week's Budget, delivered by the Financial Secretary on Wednesday. And it's a Budget to which the general response was 'same old, same old'. From across the political divide, f...
21:49 10. NPC meeting and Hong Kong's CE elections ; Small shopkeepers driven out ; Spending a District Council windfall
2013-03-08
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"You can't have missed it. There's been a meeting of the National People's Congress in Beijing this week. Correspondents in the capital have reported on topics ranging from baby formula squabbles to h...
