Official: No room for talk about 'HK independence'

Hong Kong's second-highest-ranking official said on Saturday that there is "no room for discussion" about separatism in the special administrative region.

Chief Secretary for Administration Matthew Cheung Kin-chung made the remark after 10 local university presidents issued a joint statement against recent pro-independence posters on their campuses.

The "Hong Kong independence" notion violates the Basic Law, Hong Kong's sole constitutional document, Cheung said.