Hong Kong opposition fails to secure nominations for district election

Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy party said Monday that it will not field any candidates for the city's district council election slated for December after its hopefuls failed to secure the required nominations from government-appointed local committees.The poll on Dec. 10 will be the first "patriots-only" election for the district council of the special administrative region, under an election law amended earlier this year.The Democratic Party had previously said it would field six candidates in the election. But they could not obtain at least three obligatory nominations from each of thr…READ FULL ARTICLE