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| | The Telegraph - Calcutta : International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Security secretary Regina Ip, the official who championed the controversial subversion bill which was withdrawn after massive popular outrage earlier this month, resigned for personal reasons last month, it said. |
 | | The government said Ip had tendered her resignation on June 25, just days before half-a-million people took to the streets in one of the city’s biggest demonstrations in decades to denounce the government and the planned National Security Bill. |
 | | Ip, 52, was one of the highest-ranking women in the Hong Kong government and, as the main person pushing the subversion bill, came under fierce fire from the public, human rights groups and even legal experts. |
| www.telegraphindia.com /1030717/asp/foreign/story_2172073.asp (652 words) |
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