61.   China set up a provisional legislature a week ago, saying the existing one was elected under rules it never agreed to.

62.   Delegates recommended the provisional legislature last only one year, but a final decision has not been reached, Lu said.

63.   Despite protests in Hong Kong, the provisional legislature has started meeting in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, which borders the British colony.

64.   Fung, one of the few democrats on the Preparatory Committee, has already run afoul of China by casting a lone vote against establishing a provisional legislature.

65.   Gordon Siu Kwing-chu told the Public Service Panel of the provisional legislature the unit had responded pro-actively to the bird flu crisis.

66.   Gov. Chris Patten, backed by the U.S. government, has denounced the provisional legislature as unwarranted and says he will have nothing to do with it.

67.   Hanley took issue with a reporter who said the Chinese decision was final and the machinery for a provisional legislature was already in place.

68.   He also reviewed the selection of a provisional legislature to replace the current elected body.

69.   He criticised incumbent representative in the provisional legislature, Eric Li Ka-cheung, as being keen on compromise and currying favour from others.

70.   He said the image of Hong Kong had suffered after the provisional legislature scrapped the ordinances on freedom of association, and rights of collective bargaining for trade unions.