{"id":9641,"date":"2021-01-18T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T06:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118156\/minister-warns-hong-kong-civil-servants-should-not-publicly"},"modified":"2021-01-18T06:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T06:30:47","slug":"minister-warns-hong-kong-civil-servants-should-not-publicly-criticise-government-grant-interviews-to-anti-china-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/minister-warns-hong-kong-civil-servants-should-not-publicly-criticise-government-grant-interviews-to-anti-china-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister warns Hong Kong civil servants should not publicly criticise government, grant interviews to \u2018anti-China\u2019 media"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong civil servants can continue to voice their concerns over pay and working conditions, but they cannot publicly criticise the government or its policies, particularly now that they must take oaths pledging allegiance to the city, the civil service minister has warned.Speaking at a Legislative Council meeting on Monday, Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen said it was clear those guidelines also meant not granting interviews to media outlets regarded as \u201canti-China\u201d. He\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118156\/minister-warns-hong-kong-civil-servants-should-not-publicly\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong civil servants can continue to voice their concerns over pay and working conditions, but they cannot publicly criticise the government or its policies, particularly now that they must take oaths pledging allegiance to the city, the civil serv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9642,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641\/revisions\/9642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}