Democracy "referendum" plan heats up Hong Kong politics

2009/12/14 00:29:11 @Reuters: World News

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Opposition lawmakers in Hong Kong are poised to resign en masse from the city legislature in a bid to trigger what amounts to a referendum on democracy and rekindle a battle with China on expanding democratic rights. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=lvJzlfk2e6c:9Fns2jdaIzE:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=lvJzlfk2e6c:9Fns2jdaIzE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=lvJzlfk2e6c:9Fns2jdaIzE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=lvJzlfk2e6c:9Fns2jdaIzE:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=lvJzlfk2e6c:9Fns2jdaIzE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/lvJzlfk2e6c" height="1" width="1"/
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