Credit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:00:25 +0000
DAVOS, Switzerland: Bruised by months of street protests and calls to resign, Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam came to Davos with a tricky pitch to sell — that the Chinese territory is still a safe destination for investment and she is not going anywhere. Her stay at the four-day event in the Swiss Alps, which […]
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:26:50 +0000
Parents gathered outside the university to beg police to let their kids go, while one protest leader called on the international community to prevent “Tiananmen 2019.”
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 13:01:00 +0000
One prominent protest leader warns that the government will use the withdrawal as an excuse to repress protesters: “a full-scale clampdown is on the way.”
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:44:04 +0000
FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday “pledged Philippine support” for beleaguered Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam. Locsin made the remark as Lam denied reports that she thought…READ
Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 23:22:47 +0000
HONG KONG — When Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam appeared before the press on Tuesday, she appeared to be expecting to deliver a brief statement and move on. Instead she faced a media onslaught. No sooner were her prepared remarks finished than the full-frontal assault — in both Cantonese and English — began. “You blame […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 06:08:25 +0000
China’s Communist Party again underlined its wholesale support for Hong Kong’s embattled leader as she struggles to contain violent unrest.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:36:39 +0000
Hong Kong protest leaders opposed to the administration of Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Tuesday that they will continue their demonstrations, even after Lam declared the effort to amend a highly contentious extradition bill “dead.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 01:17:04 +0000
Hong Kong’s political divisions showed no sign of closing as students rebuffed an offer from city leader Carrie Lam to meet and a few thousand mothers rallied in support of young protesters who left a trail of destruction in the legislature’s building at the start of the week.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:59:52 +0000
China’s government strongly backed Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s embattled administration on Tuesday, saying the occupation and vandalizing of the city’s legislature by pro-democracy protesters amounted to “serious illegal acts” that endangered the social order.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:00:21 +0000
A Hong Kong student group has demanded that the city completely scrap a politically charged extradition bill and agree to investigate police tactics against protesters before a Thursday deadline or face further street demonstrations.
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