But even in the geographically-based constituencies, a complicated proportional representation system means that on Hong Kong island itself, for example, the pro-government camp won three of the six availableseats despite getting less than 40% of the votes.
There were 200 requests for the 40 press seatsavailable on Obama's plane, and all three top network anchors (Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams) made the trip and are broadcasting live from each country Obama visits.