Hong Kong to tighten media access to land records, triggering concerns
Hong Kong lawmakers and the media industry have raised concerns about the authorities’ plan to tighten arrangements for journalists searching land records, with some legislators urging the government to explain operational details and streamline the application to support investigative reporting. The Hong Kong Journalists Association voiced objections on Wednesday, after the government tabled eight pieces of subsidiary legislation, including the Land Titles Regulation that covers land record...
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Hong Kong plan to tighten journalists' access to land records, adding the press group's call to scrap it, and nothing it says conflicts with Report 1.
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