The premise that candidates in the future chief executive elections, to be conducted under universal suffrage, must "love the country and Hong Kong" is self-evident, said the chief secretary of Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong government on Wednesday officially kicked off public consultation for a constitutional reform which aims to realize the election of next Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administration Region (SAR) by universal suffrage in 2017.
The Hong Kong government on Wednesday officially kicked off public consultation for a debated constitutional reform which aims to realize the election of the Special Administration Region's (SAR) next chief executive by universal suffrage in 2017.
17 close contacts of the Indonesian woman involved in Hong Kong's first confirmed H7N9 case have tested negative for the virus, Hong Kong's Secretary for Food& Health Ko Wing-man said on Tuesday.
The Chinese mainland's chief negotiator Chen Deming visited Hon Hai/Foxconn Technology Group's headquarters in New Taipei City on Tuesday, wrapping up his eight-day tour to Taiwan.
The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) said Tuesday it has issued 1.5 billion yuan ($246 million) in yuan-denominated bonds in Taiwan, making it the first mainland bank to issue yuan bonds in the island.
The first diagnosis of the H7N9 bird flu in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has been confirmed, according to a senior local government official.
Hong Kong confirmed on Monday its first case of H7N9 bird flu as a 36-year-old Indonesian domestic helper has been hospitalized in critical condition.
The children of Ho Feng Shan, known as '"China's Schindler", are calling on Taiwan authorities to throw out a 41-year-old embezzlement case against their father.
Mainland chief negotiator Chen Deming said the cross-Straits trade agreement negotiation will continue, when meeting with Chiang Pin-kung, the former chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation on Sunday in Taipei.
A total of 85 people were reported to have been injured in a ferry accident which happened at 1 am on Friday near Hei Ling Chau island of China's Hong Kong, and two people were seriously injured.
China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, passed through the Taiwan Straits on Thursday morning on its way to a training mission in the South China Sea.