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Hong Kong Loses an Independent Watchdog

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Philip Bowring
May 17, 2008
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The May 15 resignation of David Webb, Hong Kong’s best-known gadfly and an independent and outspoken member of the board of Hong Kong’s financial trading monopoly, HK Exchanges and Clearing, raises serious questions about its standards of governance and underlines the government’s increasing control of what ought to be an independent body.

Webb, a former…

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