Earlier this week, Philip Ling (Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate for Bromsgrove in 2010 and one of two Chinese on the Party's Leadership Programme) debated current issues with Sonny Leong of Chinese for Labour and Thomas Chan from Chinese Conservatives. The hustings were organised by BBC Chinese and co-hosted by BC Project.
LIBERAL Democrat MP Sarah Teather is urging the Chinese community to take up the government's offer of free school meals (FSMs) for children from low-income families.
The All Party Parliamentary Chinese in Britain Group have launched a national Crime Questionnaire to gather evidence on Chinese communities' relationship with the Police.
Federal Conference Committee accepted an amendment moved by Sarah Yong at Spring Conference on the motion "Giving Young People a Future" (Combating Youth Unemployment) with the insertion of the following paragraph after line 8 of the motion:
If there is a complaint that the West likes to level at China on an ongoing basis, it is that of Human Rights, including that there should be less state control over the press and over freedom of expression. So it should be of interest that there is an inquiry currently under way investigating whether the press in Britain should be more highly controlled, after it appeared that some individuals working at the News of the World had broken the law, intercepting the voicemails of apparently hundreds of individuals including royalty, politicians, sports stars and celebrities, as well as apparently a murder victim, in order to find stories to sell in its newspapers.
