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Is China Trying to Rig HK District Council Races?

Our Correspondent
Sep 29, 2015
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Two developments in the run-up to elections for Hong Kong’s District Councils – largely advisory bodies -- have given rise to fears of ever more illegal tricks, with a waiter offering a prospective candidate HK$400,000 in one race in an apparent bid to split the vote and deny a seat to a pro-democracy candidate. The other development, more encouraging, …

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