Current events in Hong Kong

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1 October - National Day
19 October - Chung Yeung Festival

Miss Asia Pageant was crowded tonight. 23 years old Grace Cheung Ka Ying won the annual beauty pageant. The First runner-up was 25 years old Choi Ju Hee, and the 22 years old Sun Chen rounded up the top 3. 1

Beijing loyalists launched a TIRADE against veteran democrat lawmaker Martin Lee Chu-ming yesterday, calling him a "running dog" and a "traitor" for urging the United States and other countries to use next year's Beijing Olympics to force China to improve its human-rights record.2

Hong Kong and Macau have agreed to negotiate with the mainland government on combining into one the current separate visas for mainland tourists visiting the two cities.3

A 70-year-old man and two women who disappeared after their vessel sank are feared dead as a two-day air-and-sea rescue operation near Cheung Chau came up empty.4

Chief Executive Donald Tsang said that democracy, if taken to the extreme, could spark scenes reminiscent of the disastrous decade-long purge of capitalist influence, which tore the country apart. Hong Kong's leader has been forced to make an unprecedented apology after warning that democracy could lead to the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, in which millions of Chinese were persecuted. Tsang is currently spearheading the process of introducing universal suffrage into the former British colony.5

The three-year-long saga of the rail merger came to a climax after minority shareholders of MTR Corp cleared the biggest hurdle yesterday by voting overwhelmingly to take over the operations and assets of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corp.6

Immigration officers are probing more than 543 suspected bogus marriages and have prosecuted a 52-year-old Hong Kong woman - the mastermind of a syndicate thought to have been involved in up to 100 cases which earned her HK$3 million.7

Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen is likely to announce that all children in Hong Kong will get 12 years of free education when he delivers his policy speech next Wednesday, a source said yesterday.8

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