Hong Kong saw a near record-low voter turnout in a legislative election over the weekend that was tightly controlled to remove pro-democracy candidates, government statistics showed Monday, as residents continued to grieve for some 160 lives lost in the territory's worst blaze in decades.Amid authorities' all-out efforts to boost voter turnout in Sunday's poll, the figure edged up to 31.9 percent from 30.2 percent in the previous vote in 2021, a record low since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee said Monday that the election carrie…READ FULL ARTICLE
