Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Monday she will fly to Beijing to ask Chinese leaders for help to pull the territory out of its economic slump. Lam said an annual speech she was due to make this week about government plans will be ...
Hong Kong ensures ‘stable’ holiday with thousands of riot police
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam relied on thousands of riot police to enforce what she declared was a return to stability, sweeping up scores of would-be protesters before they could mobilize another mass demonstration on the anniversary of communist rule in China. Crowds that gathered ...
Hong Kong's Carrie Lam hails 'return to peace' amid ban on anniversary protests
Hong Kong's leader Thursday hailed her city's "return to peace" after China imposed a security law that helped suppress a pro-democracy movement, as just a handful of people defied a heavy police presence and protested during National Day celebrations. The People's Republic of China celebrates ...
Hong Kong offers a glimpse of one Belarus future
From the start, the crowds in Minsk learned from Hong Kong’s broad-based, leaderless campaign. They, too, were making demands of a system ill-equipped to compromise.
Hong Kong protesters adapt as security law stifles old tactics
Demonstrators have sought more creative methods, like supporting sympathetic businesses.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has credit card trouble after U.S. sanctions
The chief executive is one of 11 officials to have been named in the measures.
China on Saturday slammed the United States for imposing "barbarous" sanctions in response to Beijing's crackdown in Hong Kong, capping a dramatic week of deteriorating relations between the world's two biggest economies. In the toughest U.S. action on Hong Kong since China imposed a sweeping ...
Hong Kong considers postponing legislative elections, HKET reports
The Hong Kong government is considering postponing the upcoming legislative elections, the Hong Kong Economic Times reported, after a sudden surge in coronavirus cases raised new questions about the September vote. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s advisory Executive Council was expected to meet Tuesday ...
Xi’s Hong Kong power play puts China ever more at odds with West
Minutes after reports broke that China passed a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong, Carrie Lam stood in front of a backdrop of the city’s iconic skyline for a weekly press briefing. With legions of reporters clamoring to hear details of the law that ...
Survey shows Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests may be losing steam
Support for yearlong pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong has slipped, now getting the backing of a slim majority, as the city braces for the imposition of Beijing-drafted national security legislation, a survey conducted for Reuters showed. Protests escalated last June over a since-withdrawn bill that ...
China security law to override Hong Kong legal system
The laws will shape the future of Hong Kong, raising questions about the autonomy of a city whose status is a underpinned by its distinction from the mainland.
