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Carrie Lam extends olive branch to varsity students
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam has asked to meet with the city’s university students, her office said yesterday, as the embattled leader tries to fend off pressure from a month-long political crisis. Protesters stormed the local parliament
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Hong Kong violence: Police cracks the whip
HONG KONG: Hong Kong police said yesterday they had arrested 12 people in connection with incidents on July 1, although it was unclear if they were among protesters who smashed their way into the city’s legislature and ransacked the building.
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Hong Kong violence: China may tighten screws on the island
BEIJING: China criticised the violence in Hong Kong that saw protesters ransack the city’s legislature yesterday, fuelling expectations it will take a tougher line on the territory, even as details of the scenes of vandalism went largely unreported on the
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Calm befalls Hong Kong after violent protests
HONG KONG: A tense calm descended on Hong Kong early today, hours after police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who had stormed the legislature in chaotic scenes, to protest against an extradition bill in a direct challenge
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Fresh protests rattle Hong Kong, want voice at G20 summit
HONG KONG: Hong Kong was plunged into chaos again today as protesters rallied outside the justice secretary’s offices, blocking roads and forcing workers to leave in the latest unrest to rock the city over an extradition bill that has now
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Hong Kong: Extradition bill backlash may cripple legislature
Hong Kong’s embattled government is working behind the scenes to save face under the threat of business being paralysed in the legislature after it was forced to suspend its controversial extradition bill amid mass protests and violent clashes on the
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Carrie Lam apologises, refuses to quit
HONG KONG: Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam yesterday signalled the end of a controversial extradition bill that she promoted and then postponed after some of the most violent protests since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in
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Xi underestimated Hong Kong dwellers’ anger
BEIJING: When Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping announced a ‘one country, two systems’ principle to govern Hong Kong starting with its July 1997 handover from the UK government, guaranteeing a high level of autonomy and freedom of expression for 50 years,
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Self-styled Iron Lady Carrie Lam buckles under pressure
With an escalating US trade war, a faltering economy and tensions in the South China Sea vexing her bosses in Beijing, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam appeared in no mood to compromise on a planned extradition law at recent meetings.
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Hong Kong’s divisive extradition bill suspended
Hong Kong’s embattled leader on Saturday said a divisive bill that would allow extraditions to China would be “suspended” in a major climbdown from her government after a week of unprecedented protests. The city’s pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam has come
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