Candidate registration for Hong Kong's district council election slated for December started Tuesday, as the special administrative region amended a law earlier this year and drastically reduced the number of directly elected seats.The poll on Dec. 10 will be the first "patriots-only" election for the district council, following a 2021 election of the Legislative Council that underwent a similar overhaul based on Beijing's principle of "patriots administering Hong Kong."The largest and pro-Beijing party, Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, said on Monday that i…READ FULL ARTICLE
