The latter charges were dropped after the former Mississauga, Ont., resident turned himself in earlier this year, following nearly two years on the lam. The theft charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said in February last year that the city would not recognize dual nationality according to the SCMP report.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said last week the rapid spread of the omicron variant was overwhelming Hong Kong hospitals. The government said Thursday that 90 percent of hospital beds were filled.

Mella was among more than a dozen Christian representatives who publicly petitioned then-Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam in January to grant an amnesty to media tycoon Jimmy Lai and other political activists who are jailed or in custody.

Incumbent Carrie Lam, who was elected in 2017, will finish her term on June 30. She announced that she would not seek a second term, making Lee the only candidate for the city’s highest office.

Tung Chee-hwa and Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-Ngor scored 64.1 percent and 63.6 percent, respectively.

A few months later, Tung attended a function, Tung waited for Carrie Lam who helped him get up to the stage. That was the last time Tung was seen in public.

At that time, he signed a joint letter urging the then Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, to withdraw the proposed amendments to the 2019 Hong Kong extradition bill. Jimmy Lai: Courageous Supporter of Democracy and Freedom Lord Patten commended Mr.

Last week city leader Carrie Lam used emergency powers granted under British colonial-era laws to exempt mainland Chinese staff and projects from any licensing or other legal requirements.

Former Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam had promised in her 2020 policy address to revitalize the Jumbo Floating Restaurant as part of efforts to facilitate the Island South Initiative, and the Hong Kong Ocean Park would accept the restaurant as a

Amid public complaints of confused official messaging, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said her government had no plan for a "complete lockdown" while it plots compulsory testing of the city's 7.4 million residents.

The outgoing CE Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was also sanctioned by the U.S. for undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy. Both Lee and Lam were unsympathetic towards the 2019 social protests.

Lee took office as Hong Kong’s chief executive in July 2022, succeeding Carrie Lam, who has also been sanctioned for undermining the city’s autonomy and freedoms.

Carrie Lam Comments Pro-Beijing Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, while speaking to reporters on Dec. 30, defended the case against Stand News, saying the police’s moves “have nothing to do with so-called suppression of press freedom.”

HONG KONG—Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Sunday she plans to review COVID-19 restrictions on Monday, just days after acknowledging that many people in the global financial hub were "losing patience" with the city's coronavirus policies.

As to whether, as an international city, it is appropriate to call world leaders “men of meanness,” Wong thought that the former Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, had done enough damage during the 2019 anti-extradition protests, to prove that

He mentioned that Hong Kong’s former chief executives, including Tung Chee-hwa, Leung Chun-ying, and Carrie Lam, have been sanctioned by the United States, but that “they still have CCP’s protection after retirement.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Friday the election will be delayed six weeks from March 27 because holding the polls as originally scheduled would pose “public health risks” even if a committee of only 1,462 people is involved.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam confirmed at a press conference on Jan. 6 that over 100 people attended the event. “I must say I am disappointed,” said Lam.

More isolation, and more virus tests, have been outlined so far by the powers that be while Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said authorities would not tighten pandemic restrictions for now.

But the government has been criticised by parliamentarians for being slow to sanction more human rights abusers from China and elsewhere, such as former Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam, former Xinjiang Chinese Communist Party secretary Chen Quanguo

Caspar Tsui was among 15 officials who went to the 53rd birthday of Witman Hung, a city delegate to the Chinese regime's rubber-stamp legislature, before new COVID-19 restrictions came into force, but after Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam appealed to people

Hong Kong's chief executive Carrie Lam said in September that the aim of changes to the electoral system is to ensure only "patriots”—who are aligned with the ruling communist party—can rule the city.

When questioned about Au's arrest, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam told a news conference she would not comment on individual cases, but said press freedom was enshrined in the city's mini-constitution, the Basic Law.

At the end of Tong's closely watched trial, Judges Esther Toh, Anthea Pang, and Wilson Chan—picked by city leader Carrie Lam to hear national security cases—ruled that the slogan he carried on his motorbike was "capable of inciting others to commit secession

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam urged people to avoid gatherings ahead of next week's Lunar New Year holidays.

Not Carrie Lam. Not Xi Jinping. Not anyone.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam speaks at a press conference in Hong Kong, on July 7, 2020.

“We're worried that there may be asymptomatic Hong Kong carriers who are still missed in the community,” said Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam during a news conference Friday.

“Carrie Lam is basically the Mayor of Hong Kong, and the director of the Liaison Office is Hong Kong’s Party Chief. The Hong Kong Garrison is equivalent to the political commissar.