July 2006 in Hong Kong

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[edit] Holidays July 1st - Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day

[edit] 1 July 2006 (Saturday)

• Tens of thousands of people have joined a rally in Hong Kong calling for full democracy in the territory. [1]

[edit] 3 July 2006 (Monday)

• Some 60,000 civil servants begin five-day working weeks under the "family-friendly practice" intended to boost staff morale, improve work-life balance, stimulate consumer spending on weekends and save energy. [2]

[edit] 4 July 2006 (Tuesday)

• Controversial former Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee calls for universal suffrage by 2012 and an amendment of the Basic Law in her academic dissertation on Hong Kong's Democratic Development: Past, Present and Future. [3]

[edit] 6 July 2006 (Thursday)

• With the possible advent of a fair competition law, some small business owners are dreaming of their chance to take on the big businesses, while others fear Hong Kong's reputation as a free market will be in jeopardy. [4]

[edit] 10 July 2006 (Monday)

• Hong Kong's 25 pro-democratic lawmakers have pledged to vote as a bloc when the administration's new spying bill goes to a vote next month, hoping to harness the same unity they used to overturn last December's pivotal constitutional reform package. [5]

[edit] 12 July 2006 (Wednesday)

• Police are looking for three suspects, including an alleged mastermind, linked to what police describe as an elaborate mortgage racket that netted HK$11 million in loans and nearly got away with another HK$6 million. [6]

[edit] 14 July 2006 (Friday)

• The more than 9,000 police officers who provided security for the World Trade Organization's Sixth Ministerial Conference in Wan Chai last December deserved full marks for their handling of the violent protests on the closing days of the event, Commissioner of Police Dick Lee Ming-kwai said. [7]

[edit] 17 July 2006 (Monday)

• Hong Kong is wealthy enough to invest more in health care, a former Hospital Authority chief executive William Ho Shiu-wei believes. [8]

[edit] 19 July 2006 (Wednesday)

• Lawmakers have been shocked to hear how an asylum-seeker had been raped several times and that police had refused to pursue her case after an investigation. [9]

[edit] 20 July 2006 (Thursday)

• Foreign domestic workers have vowed to take their wage row claims to the Court of Final Appeal, arguing that they had been unfairly "taxed" when their minimum wage was reduced by the same amount as a levy imposed on their employers. [10]

[edit] 24 July 2006 (Monday)

• Former secretary for the environment and food Lily Yam Kwan Pui-ying, affectionately known as the "Iron Butterfly" while in then-chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang's "Handbag Gang," has not ruled out joining Chan's "core group" to develop a long-term strategy for universal suffrage. [11]

[edit] 25 July 2006 (Tuesday)

• Beijing is to recommend Hong Kong's former director of health Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun - who was accused of mishandling the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in 2003 - as the next head of the World Health Organization, state media said Tuesday. [12]

[edit] 26 July 2006 (Wednesday)

• Members of the government-advisory Harbourfront Enhancement Committee have been forced to say a reluctant farewell to the Star Ferry Pier, after officials refused to back down on plans to demolish the site. [13]
• A 13-year-old girl died after collapsing outside a Mong Kok disco early Wednesday morning, suspected of having taken an overdose of the party drug ketamine. [14]

[edit] 28 July 2006 (Friday)

• Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen said the Commission on Strategic Development had taken a pragmatic step forward in reaching the goal of a chief executive election by universal suffrage. [15]

[edit] July 31, 2006 (Monday)

• Legislators want the government to establish a new hygiene benchmark for amusement parks after a report accused Disney's new water attraction of containing excessive bacteria at an "astonishing level." [16]

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