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Hong Kong bans protesters from police housing areas amid escalating violence
HONG KONG: A Hong Kong court has granted an injunction to ban anyone from blocking or damaging areas used to house married police officers and other disciplined services that have been targeted in more than four months of anti-government protests.
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HK protesters and police clash, metro and shops targeted
HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy activists and riot police clashed in chaotic scenes around the city yesterday, with police in riot gear chasing protesters through crowds of lunchtime shoppers. Rallies in shopping malls on Hong Kong island and across the
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Lam: China supports withdrawal of extradition bill
HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said today that China “understands, respects and supports” her government’s move to formally withdraw an extradition bill, part of measures she hoped would help the city “move forward” from months of unrest. In
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Hong Kong leader to kill bill, too little, too late
HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam will announce the withdrawal of an extradition bill that triggered months of unrest and has thrown the Chinese-ruled city into its worst crisis in decades, Cable TV and other media said, but the
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Carrie Lam to withdraw extradition Bill, officially
Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is set to formally withdraw the much-despised extradition bill that sparked the nearly three-month long protest crisis now roiling the city today, sources have told the Post. The decision will mean that the government
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Carrie Lam: From Iron Lady to lame duck
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam’s apologies and explanations for the doomed extradition bill have failed to quell political tension and her departure is now seen by many in the Chinese-ruled city as merely a matter of time in a
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Hong Kong’s extradition bill is dead
Hong Kong CEO Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the extradition bill that sparked the territory’s biggest political crisis in decades was dead, admitting that the government’s work on the bill had been a “total failure”. The bill, which would have
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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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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 erupt in Hong Kong
HONG KONG: Hundreds of protesters faced off with riot police early on Monday, the anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule, ahead of an annual rally that is expected to draw huge crowds amid widespread anger over a controversial
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