Summary Translation of Press Cutting from Ta Kung Pao dated 2.4.1988
Author: TONG Yuk-hon
Title: British citizens residing in Hong Kong
1.
Some British nationals had recently
recently written in local English newspapers criticising the
criticising the new TV licensing conditions as
as "racist" because under the
the new conditions, only those who were in possession of Hong Kong permanent I.D. cards were allowed to own more than 10% of the shares of TV companies and at present only ethnically Chinese Hong Kong residents were eligible for permanent I.D. cards.
2.
The author refuted the
above argument as invalid since the JD provides that foreign
foreign nationals, under certain circumstances, could also obtain Hong Kong permanent I.D. cards. He stressed that the new licensing conditions were not "racist" and that there was in fact no nationality requirement at all. He ended by cautioning that there have always been nationality requirements as regards the control of TV stations and so should be the case after 1997.
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