HONG KONG: BEFORE THE OPEN, 20May2013

Timmy Tong quiet as a mouse; Civil servants want inflation linked pay; Better luck next time HKMEx; HKIA traffic healthy; To poison us better; Yanzhou capital raising. Here’s what you need to know.

Jasper Tsang: My way or the highway

From SCMP:

The Legislative Council president has sparked new controversy after he rejected pan-democrats ‘suggestion that any bid to end a filibuster should require two-thirds of lawmakers’ votes.

HK To Get Radical To Promote Universal Suffrage

From Global Voices:

What we are now talking about is paralyzing Central, is this radical? “Radical is a strategy. Without radical democracy, the moderate democrats have no bargaining power. Moreover, Hong Kong is not so radical. We only have one Long Hair? He just keeps filing for judicial reviews.”