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Candidates for HK leadership race square off in heated TV debate
Published Tue, Mar 14, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Hong Kong
THE first debate among the three candidates vying to be Hong Kong's next leader turned out to be a heated affair, with analysts saying that former financial secretary John Tsang came out ahead of his two other rivals.
The 65-year-old Mr Tsang squared off against former chief secretary Carrie Lam, 59, and retired judge Woo Kwok-hing, 71, in the two-hour televised debate on Tuesday evening.
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