RTHK has announced it will produce a 20-episode TV program exploring the national security law, hours after a government-appointed board of advisers said the broadcaster needs to embrace the law Beijing is planning to impose on the city. Amen Ng, head of corporate communications and standards at RTHK, said the program is expected to begin broadcast by the end of June, the broadcaster reported. Ng said that plans to produce the program were made about two to three weeks ago, well before a government appointed panel of advisers met the the top RTHK officials. Eugene Chan, the chairman of a new working group set up by the board to monitor the station’s governance and editorial principles, had said the broadcaster needed to produce programmes explaining Beijing’s national security law in order to assuage public's concerns. Ng said that RTHK always follows up on developments in news current affairs, that it just so happened that Chan suggested the idea.

Source: The Standard June 10, 2020 09:11 UTC