Tony Cheung | 19 August 2014 | South China Morning Post
More than half of Hongkongers say candidates should be allowed to run for chief executive in 2017 if they are endorsed by one-eighth of nominating committee members, a survey has found.
Category Archives: Polls and Surveys
Poll Results on Political Reform by Centre for Communication and Public Opinion Survey, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Commissioned by Hongkong2020 | 18 August 2014
Hong Kong political reform consultation was dominated by ‘orchestrated’ responses
Calvin Liu, Brian Yap and Joyce Ng | 18 August 2014 | SCMP
The government’s consultation exercise on political reform was dominated by “orchestrated” bloc submissions, most of them favouring a conservative stance, a South China Morning Post study has revealed.
Summary:
- More than 90% of 121,447 submissions to HK Gov electoral reform consultation were based on templates and submitted collectively by 822 groups- most of which were not named.
- 80% of submissions to HK gov public consultation on electoral reform were made by unidentified groups using templates.
- Pro-CCP DAB made 12.7% of submissions to HK gov electoral reform consultation, most nearly identical.
- Unidentified groups & DAB are 92.7% of group submissions to HK consultation on electoral reform.
14 years to buy a flat: Quality of life in Hong Kong going down, shows survey
Brian Yap | 14 August 2014 | South China Morning Post
Why city’s quality of life is getting worse, starting with inability of the average household to afford to buy even the most modest of homes
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