Such incidents have thrust the environment onto the agenda of this year's National People's Congress, China's annual legislative meeting in session in Beijing.
Among the 3, 000 delegates of the 2013 National People's Congress, the percentage of blue-collar workers and peasants has risen to 13% from 8% in 2012.
Punters are hoping the just-opened National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing (see story on page 30) will act to boost the economy and help red chips.
Lau Nai-keung, a Hong Kong member of China's National People's Congress, adds that because of Macau's reliance on tourism, its low tolerance for troublemakers is understandable.
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He installed his hand-picked slate in the Politburo's supreme standing committee and banished prominent rivals such as National People's Congress Chairman Qiao Shi and military chief Gen.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the National People's Congress the top annual meetings of China's legislature the developers said that the market continues to face pressure from declining sales and tightened credit.
The new Court of Appeal, meanwhile, handed down the judgment that Hong Kong's courts have no right to challenge a decision by China's National People's Congress, even if it seems to contravene the Basic Law.
Even the conservative Mr Li to whom it fell to declare martial law in 1989 and who is now the head of the National People's Congress is calling for the media to play a greater role in criticising government shortcomings.
In response to popular calls for direct elections in 2007 for the Chief Executive and 2008 for all of the Legislative Council, as allowed under the Basic Law, the PRC's National People's Congress Standing Committee has made some telling and worrisome moves in recent weeks.
Irina Bokova, the Executive Director of the Confucius Institute Headquarters, Madame Xu Lin, as well as the founder of the Nishan Forum and former Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of National People's Congress, Professor Xu Jialu, will speak at the opening session of the Forum.
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Laurent Nkunda, the Congolese Tutsi general who leads troops of the National Congress for the Defense of the People, ordered the cease-fire, Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert told reporters.
The U.N. envoy praised representatives from the Congolese government and the main rebel group, the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), for taking part in the talks.
Tensions persist within the newly integrated forces of the Congolese army, which include a powerful Tutsi militia, called the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), that may retain its old command structure inside Congo's army.
Laurent Nkunda, who leads troops of the National Congress for the Defense of the People, told CNN in a phone interview he wants to start working Friday with the U.N. mission in Congo, known by its French acronym MONUC, to allow people back to their homes.
As these people make up the backbone of support for the African National Congress, Mr Mbeki has to be very careful not to criticise a leader in a neighbouring country who appears to be doing more to help the rural black poor.
People are no longer willing to sit and wait around for the African National Congress to deliver.
Most people expect the new ruling alliance, made up of President-elect Kim's National Congress for New Politics, with 77 seats, and the United Liberal Democrats, with 43 seats, to boost their numbers as disillusioned members of the former governing party trickle across the aisle.
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