HONG KONG (Reuters): Hong Kong's Legislative Council started to vote on a controversial national anthem Bill on Thursday (June 4) that would make disrespecting China's national anthem a criminal offence, a move critics see as the latest sign of Beijing's tightening grip on the city.
The voting came just as people in Hong Kong were set to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Tiananmen Square by lighting candles across the city later in the day.
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