The first face-to-face debate between chief executive candidates was held on Monday morning, but only two of the three contenders showed up for the radio broadcast discussion.
Henry Tang Ying-yen was not present, leaving Leung Chun-ying and Albert Ho Chun-yan to challenge each other’s policies on population policy, on a Commercial Radio programme.
Leung called for stricter measures to stop mainland women giving birth in Hong Kong.
But he rejected Ho’s call for a Basic Law amendment to prevent children born in Hong Kong of mainland parents from gaining the right of abode. Such a move was unprecedented and would not solve the problem in the immediate future, Leung said.
Vocabulary
- abode 住所, 住處
- amendment 修正; 改善
- Basic Law 政策法
- broadcast 廣播; 廣播節目
- candidate 候選人
- challenge 挑戰; 質疑; 指責
- chief executive
- contender 爭奪者; 競爭者
- debate 辯論, 爭論
- face-to-face 面對面地
- measure 尺寸; 措施; 手段; 基準, 尺度
- population policy 人口政策
- unprecedented 無先例的, 空前的
- Name the three chief executive candidates.
- Who was absent from the debate?
- Which word in the essay means "having no previous example"?
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