{"id":21675,"date":"2012-10-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2012\/10\/20121010_122105.shtml"},"modified":"2012-10-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T04:00:00","slug":"jasper-tsang-elected-legco-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/10\/10\/jasper-tsang-elected-legco-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasper Tsang elected LegCo president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/department_logo\/Legco.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jasper Tsang was elected Legislative Council President at the new-term Legislative Council's first meeting today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers elected the president after taking the Legislative Council Oath.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The council\u2019s House Committee also held its first meeting this afternoon. Andrew Leung was elected chairman, and Ronny Tong deputy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Committee held its first meeting immediately after the House Committee meeting, Tommy Cheung and Emily Lau were elected chairman and deputy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasper Tsang was elected Legislative Council President at the new-term Legislative Council's first meeting today.\u00a0Lawmakers elected the president after taking the Legislative Council Oath.\u00a0The council\u2019s House Committee also held its first meeting t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}