Hong Kong should review reducing number of Legco seats to cut cost, Rita Fan says
Hong Kong’s first Legislative Council president suggested reviewing the number of seats in the city’s legislature, citing the need to use public funds properly. Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai also said on Sunday that Hong Kong and Shenzhen authorities had discussed the development of a plot at the two cities’ border before the handover to Chinese rule in 1997, but the plan failed because of opposition within the government. Fan made the remarks during an appearance on a radio show, in which she was asked...
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