Hong Kong protests, Beijing's tightening grip rattle business community

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A series of large-scale protests which have rocked Hong Kong's legislature leaves their business community worrying over the impact on the city's financial hub status. FMTNews HongKong

Hong Kong is recuperating from a series of large-scale protests that rattled the city.

Escalating unrest over a controversial extradition bill, which would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial, grabbed global headlines and clouded Hong Kong’s outlook as a finance hub, one of the city’s main pillars of growth. Hong Kong returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997 under a “one country, two systems” formula that allows freedoms not enjoyed in mainland China, including freedom to protest and an independent judiciary.

“To me, the biggest worry is how Hong Kong is losing its independence bit by bit and is getting dangerously close to a country that doesn’t value human rights and that doesn’t have an independent judicial system,” said Edward, an Australian citizen who has worked in the financial sector for 10 years.

 

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Looks like the Bersih rally have given raise to Hong Kong citizens determination to fight against the Chinese Govt puppets in Hong Kong. There were even HK citizens who 1 2 migrate 2 Msia After seeing UMNO BN collapsed in GE14.They believed Maia under PH Govt is more transparent

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