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(3) Develop Critical Thinking Skills

(A)

Understand the Facts

(1)

(2)

List any 5 rights and duties of HKSAR residents.

According to the Basic Law, do HKSAR residents enjoy the following rights? Explain your answer.

(a) Asking the government for financial assistance

after being unemployed.

(b) Criticizing a government policy in a newspaper

article.

(c) Staging a demonstration to fight for a pay rise.

(d) Going to Taiwan for honeymoon.

(B) Think it Through

(1) Imagine that you are an overseas industrialist wishing to set up a $200 million computer hardware factory in Hong Kong to serve the fast expanding demands in the local and regional markets. Are there any provisions in the Basic Law that may help to ensure your confidence in investing in Hong Kong? Why are these provisions so important to investors in the future HKSAR?

(2)

Besides a constitutional protection by the Basic Law, what other factors should also be present in the political and social systems to guarantee rights and duties of HKSAR?

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Enrichment and Exploration

Ask the students to read the content of the "International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and

and Political Rights". Then discuss whether the provisions of those parts of these two Covenants as applied to Hong Kong and those of the Basic Law are similar.

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