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Sunday, September 25, 2005

• Legislative Council of Macao election: Record high turnout of 58%.
• HK CE led 59 members of the Legislative Council to visit Guangdong, including members of the pro-democracy camp who has been banned from visiting mainland China by Beijing since 1989 due to their positions towards the Tian'anmen Massacre.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

• ZHANG Jian swims from Peaked Hill off Lantau Island in Hong Kong to Praia de Hác Sá on Coloane, Macao, crossing the Lingding Yang.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

• The new US Consul-General in HK and Macao James B. Cunningham says HK is ready for universal suffrage in 2007, and the US Department of Treasury is having evidence that Banco Delta Ásia is related to nuclear projects in North Korea.

Friday, September 16, 2005

• Court of Final Appeal of HK rules Chinachem to Nina WANG.
• United States Department of Treasury says Banco Delta Ásia is related to funding of nuclear projects in North Korea.
• Proposed exits of the three stations of the West Island extention of the MTR revealed for public consultation. The station near The University of Hong Kong will be 100 metres below the ground level.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

• 485 arrested in the biggest vote-buying scadal in Macao.

Monday, September 12, 2005

• Hong Kong Disneyland Resort officially opens.
• PRC Vice President ZENG Qinghong ends his three-day visit in HK.

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(For earlier events in HK and Macao, see November 2004 and preceding months)

See also

• Hong Kong
• Macao
• Hong Kong wikipedians' notice board

News collections and sources

• Wikipedia:News collections and sources.
• Wikipedia:News sources - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage NPOV in our news reporting.

Useful websites

• Commercial Radio (CRHK) news
• Yahoo! News Hong Kong
• Google News Hong Kong
• Ming Pao Daily website
• Macao Daily website
• 1044 Metroplus
• RTHK news
• SCMP.com (subscription required)
• Teledifusão de Macau - Radio
• Teledifusão de Macau - TV
• Hong Kong's category at Wikinews.org
• Macao's category at Wikinews.org
• Chatter Garden
• E-politics 21 newsgroup
• In-media Hong Kong

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