Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, out to win election to the Legislative Council on Hong Kong Island, came under fire yesterday in an election forum on Commercial Radio.

Mrs Ip was asked to direct questions at a randomly picked candidate, Tsang Kin-shing, a district councillor from the League of Social Democrats, at the radio forum. But Mr Tsang asked Mrs Ip to apologise over her role in the controversial Article 23 security bill, proposed during her watch as security chief.

Plans by chip equipment giant ASML to expand outside the Netherlands are watched with great interest in China, where some social media users believe that Dutch export curbs on sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing machines are to blame for the company’s potential relocation.