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• Carrie Lam vows to work with Chinese envoy, bring Hong Kong back on the ‘right path’

  "I would work closely with director Luo in the coming future, committing to 'one country, two systems', and the Basic Law, for Hong Kong to ... return to the right path," Lam said in her first news conference of the year.

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  Jan 6, 2020
• Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates win by landslides amid political crisis

  Some winning candidates said the result was akin to a vote of support for the protest movement, and could raise the pressure on Hong Kong's pro-Beijing chief executive, Carrie Lam, amid the city's worst political crisis in decades.

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  Nov 24, 2019
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• Hong Kong set to formally withdraw extradition bill from city’s legislature

  The protests, which were sparked by the bill erupted in early June and snowballed into the city's biggest political crisis in decades, expanding to demands for universal suffrage and an investigation into police tactics.

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  Oct 23, 2019
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• Chaos in Hong Kong legislature as protesters force leader to end speech

  Carrie Lam was forced to abandon an annual policy address in the chamber, later delivering it by television.

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  Oct 17, 2019
• ‘Semi-paralyzed’: Hong Kong protesters rally against mask ban amid subway shutdown

  Marchers still came out to defy the new ban on face coverings that the government of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory says have made the identification of violent protesters difficult for police.

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  Oct 5, 2019
• Carrie Lam to begin speaking with Hong Kong community to ease tensions, violence

  Lam, who is under pressure from Beijing to defuse the public anger stirring the protests, said the dialogue sessions would be as open as possible, with members of the public able to sign up to attend.

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  Sep 16, 2019
• Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam formally withdraws extradition bill that sparked mass protests

  The bill would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be sent to mainland China for trials.

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  Sep 4, 2019
• Hong Kong protest planned to demand city leader steps down

  Organisers of Sunday's protest said they hope more than a million people will turn up for the rally, similar to numbers they estimated for a demonstration against the proposed extradition bill last Sunday. Police put that count at 240,000.

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  Jun 15, 2019