Tung Chee-hwa

If anyone still has any doubts that Hong Kong is in trouble, they need only listen to Tung Chee-hwa, the territory's chief executive.

"Our economy is facing difficulties unprecedented since World War II," the city's grandfatherly leader said in his annual policy speech on Wednesday. The economy was in the throes of restructuring that would take a long time, he said, before adding weakly: "But that does not mean we should be pessimistic."

Stanley Ho is a guy with a virtue......

Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa has sought clarification from Beijing over allegations of threats from the mainland against radio talk-show hosts and voter intimidation.

He said the central government responded that it would not do anything to undermine the "one country, two systems" principle.......

When President Hu Jintao expressed serious concern over the political development of Hong Kong to Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa during a duty visit in Beijing on December 3, many people here took the head of state's comments lightly - including perhaps Mr Tung and his top aides. Mr Hu's words sounded like political rhetoric, they thought.