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NPC Standing Committee receives HK chief executive's report, XINHUA
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Xinhua (China)
04-15-2004
URL: http://www.xinhua.org
BEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese top legislature Thursday said
that it has received the report on Hong Kong's constitutional development
submitted by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Tung
Chee Hwa.
Hong Kong Secretary for Constitutional Affairs Stephen Lam Sui- lung,
entrusted by Tung, came to Beijing Thursday to submit the report to the
National People's Con...
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