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Leaving the elderly unprotected
The exclusion of the elderly from legal protection under domestic violence laws is unconvincing and unacceptable, welfare experts say.
In his Policy Address last October, Chief Executive Donald Tsang stressed the government would place emphasis on cherishing family harmony. But the recent rejection of proposals to protect elderly people in the Domestic Violence Ordinance (DVO) seemed like going the other way in stead.

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