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Biased television and newspaper media. government passing draconian copyright laws. moral national education. functional constituencies. corrupt heads of st
by meric 14y ago
Biased television and newspaper media.
government passing draconian copyright laws.
moral national education.
functional constituencies.
corrupt heads of state. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f5055f20-628b-11e1-872e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz25vgWWJWN http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f5055f20-628b-11e1-872e-00144... (accepting free private jet flights but only paying economy fares for them.)
the candidate with most votes from the people have the least from representatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Chief_Executive_election,_2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Chief_Executive_elect...
chinese influence on majority shareholders of radio stations; this one in particular is closing next month or so: http://www.dbc.hk http://www.dbc.hk, one of the major shareholders was even quoted saying "CCP wants to shut you down" (in chinese).
http://www.scmp.com/article/1014470/politics-play-dbc-radios-demise-and-its-bad-news-press-freedom http://www.scmp.com/article/1014470/politics-play-dbc-radios... (scmp is one of the most pro-beijing newspapers in hk, but I couldn't find any other article in english; yes I was surprised to find this there, no the quote isn't in the article.)
more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Beijing_camp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Beijing_camp (the most funded political party is the DAB, which is pro-beijing.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_legislative_election,_2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_legislative_election,...
In Hong Kong, even though pro-democracy party has more votes than pro-beijing parties, they have less seats.
Oh and just as a coincidence, today is election day in Hong Kong, tell your friends to vote!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19533116 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19533116