Hong Kong Informer

The Government will continue to help the work of the Legislative Council in scrutinising the Appropriation Bill for the Budget, and hopes the bill can be put to vote as soon as possible.   In response to media enquiries today, the Financial Secretary’s Office said the Government will continue to prepare for contingency arrangements, including [...]

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A police report has been made about possible interference with lifts in the Legislative Council building that may have delayed lawmakers returning to the chamber for quorum calls. Council president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing said the Legco Commission asked the secretariat to take the case to police after videos showed several people pressing all the lift [...]

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Legislators on Friday approved the government’s funding request for a HK$ 100 million donation to the Sichuan government to support its quake relief works. The proposal was passed at a Legislative Council finance committee meeting, with the support of 37 lawmakers. 23 others voted against it and one abstained. The donation, announced by Chief Executive [...]

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The head of the legislature is mulling two options to kill filibusters launched by radical lawmakers so as to cut short the delay in the approval of the budget. The Legislative Council began deliberations on Wednesday on 710 amendments to the proposed budget that were expected to take up 148 debate sessions. Full News here – [...]

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Non-governmental organisations and other grass-roots bodies turned out in large numbers yesterday for a Legislative Council meeting to show their support for a universal pension plan. At the Legco welfare panel meeting, 72 groups and individuals – representing a range of organisations and people of different age groups and backgrounds – voiced their opinions on welfare [...]

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Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s first policy address was given the thumbs down at a Legislative Council meeting last night. After a marathon debate lasting almost 32 hours across three days, most functional-constituency lawmakers backed the motion, voting 24 to 10 in favour. But geographical-constituency lawmakers rejected it, 18 to 16. A majority on both sides [...]

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Lawmaker “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung on Friday lost his appeal against a refusal, by the High Court, to hear his judicial challenge against the president of the Legislative Council. Last May legislature chief Tsang Yok-sing decided to halt Leung’s filibuster against a piece of legislation, leading to the lawmaker’s challenge. The panel of three Court [...]

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Beleaguered Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying survived an attempt by pan-democrats to oust him when an unprecedented motion of impeachment was defeated in the Legislative Council late on Wednesday night. After an eight-hour debate, a majority of the directly elected lawmakers present voted for the motion, but it failed to win support among trade-based lawmakers. It [...]

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Power firms going to the legislature to table their proposed electricity rates for the next year, after reaching a non-binding consensus with the government, has always been a formality. They go to the meeting, give a briefing about their tariff plans, get scolded for being too greedy and hiding crucial information, and then walk away [...]

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A legislators’ panel meeting to discuss illegal structures at Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s home had to be cancelled on Monday when too few members showed up. Full News here – Hong Kong feed

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Lawmakers debated the next step to take in addressing the right of abode issue on Friday, voting narrowly against further discussing the matter until the Court of Final Appeal makes its ruling. Full News here – Hong Kong feed

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Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is set for a grilling lasting at least 90 minutes in the Legislative Council on Monday about illegal structures in his home. Legco house committee chairman Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen, speaking after a meeting with Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor yesterday, announced that a question-and-answer session would be held at 5pm [...]

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Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying will face lawmakers on Monday and address their questions about illegal structures at his home, the House Committee chief said on Thursday. Full News here – Hong Kong feed

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After dragging his feet on the matter for almost two weeks, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has finally agreed to give a full and open account in Legco of the illegal structures found at his properties on The Peak. A political scientist said Leung had no other option, as he had to secure his allies’ support [...]

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Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying will face questions in the Legislative Council about illegal structures found at his home on The Peak, his office said on Wednesday morning. He was responding to a request from the Legco House Committee, made two weeks ago, to attend a meeting and explain his unauthorised installations. The Chief Executive’s Office [...]

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