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John Fielding,
CEO
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Hong Kong's budget deficit widened 29% in the first eight months of the fiscal year after the government announced a freeze on land sales in an effort to shore up property prices.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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We urge the Human Rights Committee to call on the United Kingdom and Hong Kong Governments to take initiatives to ensure that the writ of habeas corpus remains available after 1997 as a means to challenge the validity of detention.
The Hong Kong Government in its Fourth report to the UN Human Rights Committee deals with the situation of the Vietnamese migrants at some length in its report on Article 9 of the ICCPR, which, as mentioned, deals with the right to liberty.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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However, the Hong Kong SAR Government has suspended the amending Ordinance and plans to restore the previous legal position, which leaves the private sector free to discriminate on grounds of race as much as it likes.
Moreover, there are also concerns that the Chief Executive or the SAR Government may refer an article of the Basic Law on matters entirely within the limits of Hong Kong's autonomy thereby wholly undermining the autonomy of the SAR.
The Hong Kong Government has rejected calls to introduce amending legislation and opposed private members' initiatives to bring about a situation in conformity with the ICCPR.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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The government-owned radio quoted Hong Kong's Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa as saying that Eisner made the remark when Tung toured Disney facilities at the company's headquarters in Burbank, Calif.
No amount of international travel and propaganda by SAR Government officials will counter the negative image of Hong Kong that this action creates or the adverse consequences for the many international links which depend on how Hong Kong is perceived.
The Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor commends the Hong Kong Special Administrative Regional Government (the HKSAR Government) on its informative report to the United Nations.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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In the period since the hand-over relief that it was not followed by immediate repression has given way to growing concern that Hong Kong's freedoms will be gradually eroded because of a lack of respect by the Government for the rule of law, and an undemocratic system of Government.
This incident unequivocally demonstrated the SAR Government's willingness to ignore the finality of judgments made by Hong Kong's highest court and to resort to political solutions when displeased by that court's decisions.
In these circumstances the attitude of the Government and of the Electoral Affairs Commission is bizarre, and has done wholly unnecessary damage to Hong Kong's reputation as a free society.
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