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Hello and welcome to The Pulse. Inevitably last Sunday’s LegCo by-election in the New Territories East constituency attracted much attention.
It was held In the aftermath of the Mong Kok clashes, and there was speculation over whether this would be highly damaging to the democrats. However nothing of the kind happened. The anti-government camp’s share of the vote rose considerably and the election was won by Alvin Yeung, a young barrister from the Civic Party. It is hard to see how this result is being interpreted by the government and the Chief Executive, and whether it will lead to a reassessment of their highly confrontational approach towards localist aspirations. With us in the studio are Benny Tai, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong and political commentator, Chris Yeung.
No one but the most charitable or myopic observer would call the government’s handling of Hong Kong’s free-to-air TV scene a resounding success. Despite local viewers’ interest, the government refused Ricky Wong’s HKTV a licence. And notwithstanding local audience concerns about its increasing mainland-oriented ownership, emphasis, and programming, the government has allowed ATV to exist on virtual life support for months. It even allowed to the station to stay on where when it breached the rules of its contract and failed to pay its staff or indeed government charges. Radio Television Hong Kong has been drafted in to fill ATV’s channels in a face-saving measure to paper over the cracks. For long time employees at ATV, it’s a question of: “Will the last one left, please turn out the lights?”
In the eyes of critics it’s a script so full of plot holes that even a neophyte scriptwriter would have been reluctant to commit these stories to paper. We’re talking about the latest in the series of TV appearances, after the extended mysterious disappearances, of the five booksellers. Chinese authorities initially claimed that this was all about a hit and run incident that happened years ago, later Lee was smeared by a pro-Beijing legislator claiming that the case was related to his activities with prostitutes. Now however we are back to the story that this is really about books which are banned across the border.
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