What diseased killed 775 people in 2002-2003, mostly in Hong Kong and southern China?
2002 Hong Kong Chief Executive election the lack of competition and the need for real democracy. In his second term, Tung Chee-hwa increasingly faced difficult challenge of governing without a democratic mandate. With the SARS epidemics and the controversies over the Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 in 2003 drew a massive anti-government protest on 1 July 2003. As Jiang Zemin retired from as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ("de facto" leader), Tung gradually lost his main patron in Beijing and eventually stepped down in 2005. 2002 Hong Kong Chief Executive election The 2002 Hong Kong Chief Executive election was to select the
Taishanese people in Hong Kong Taishanese people in Hong Kong Sze Yap Cantonese (Chinese: 四邑廣東人; Taishanese: Sli Yip Gong Ong Ngin; Cantonese: Sei Yap Gwong Dong Yan; Mandarin: Si Yi Guang Dong Ren) represents the second largest Han group in Hong Kong after the group of people (Punti) originating from the Guangzhou-Sam Yap region. The Sze Yap Cantonese comes from a region in Guangdong in China called Sze Yap (四邑), now called Ng Yap, which consists of the cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, Enping, Heshan and Jiangmen. The Sze Yap Cantonese group have contributed much to what makes Hong Kong a success. Hong Kong people