Fighting the deluge Soldiers building an emergency levee near the Poyang Lake to contain flooding due to torrential rains in Jiujiang, central Jiangxi province. The vast Yangtze drainage area has been lashed by torrential rains since last month, leaving 141 people dead or missing and forcing the evacuation of millions more across several provinces. — AFP
HONG KONG: The top-level central government body overseeing Hong Kong affairs said the opposition camp's "primary election" has caused grave challenges to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's constitutional order, and challenges the Basic Law and the National Security Law.
The HKSAR government has vowed to thoroughly investigate the event in the wake of a large number of complaints by local residents.
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