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Chief executive election 2017

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9 September, 2024

Chief executive election candidates John Tsang Chun-wah (left) and Carrie Lam Yuet-ngor (centre) embrace as fellow candidate Woo Kwok-hing looks on during the announcement of the results. Photo: Robert Ng

City Beat | Why would Beijing trust Carrie Lam but not John Tsang?

2 Apr 2017 - 9:30PM

Central government signs off on Carrie Lam

1 Apr 2017 - 12:12AM

Carrie Lam begins process of forming new cabinet

30 Mar 2017 - 11:34PMvideocam

Beijing agrees Carrie Lam can run things her way as leader

28 Jan 2018 - 11:22PMvideocam

Carrie Lam is greeted by liaison office director Zhang Xiaoming. Photo: Edward Wong

My team won’t look to Beijing for help, Carrie Lam pledges

28 Mar 2017 - 11:39PM

Carrie Lam excited to get into the driver’s seat and ‘unify’ Hong Kong

30 Mar 2017 - 5:09PM

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Live | Lam wins chief executive election with 777 votes

6 Jun 2019 - 7:24PM

Carrie Lam will be Hong Kong’s next chief executive. Photo: Sam Tsang

Letters | Now more than ever, Hong Kong needs an archives law

Eight years after the establishment of a subcommittee on the matter and more than two years after a public consultation, Hong Kong is yet to have an archives law.

26 Jul 2021 - 6:00AMvideocam

The View | Only a mainland-appointed provincial leader can revive Hong Kong

Hong Kong needs a voice in a China that is becoming more economically integrated, and that cannot be provided by a local chief executive. Such leadership would integrate Hong Kong’s rather separate economy more closely into China, supporting local people as they build careers on the mainland.

12 Mar 2021 - 8:45AMvideocam

Hong Kong political reform

Opinion | The compelling case for political reform ahead of the Legco election

The government has no excuse to delay the political reforms Hongkongers are clearly demanding. Sensible first steps include breaking up bigger constituencies and abolishing corporate voting in the Legco election, and making the chief executive nominating committee more representative.

1 Dec 2019 - 7:12PMvideocam

Protest art at Edinburgh Place in Central, Hong Kong, on November 17. Hongkongers want the city’s leaders to be more representative and more accountable to them, rather than simply to Beijing. Photo: Bloomberg

Letters | Carrie Lam should pay the price for failing to govern Hong Kong

The chief executive triggered the protest crisis with her introduction of the hated extradition bill, failed to empathise with the reasonable demands of the people and did not manage to reassure Beijing about Hong Kong. She has to go.

28 Sep 2019 - 7:30AMvideocam

At a media briefing on September 24, Chief Executive Carrie Lam pledged to listen to the public with a sincere and humble attitude. Photo: Xinhua

Hong Kong political reform

Opinion | Hong Kong urgently and desperately needs political reform

Far from ripping Hong Kong apart and deepening divisions, political reform will allow a more representative government to better deal with controversial legislation, whether on extradition or national security.

15 Jul 2019 - 9:11AM

Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Hong Kong government scraps plan to shorten voting hours

Some 99.7 per cent of 15,400 submissions to consultation say voters’ rights ‘should not be sacrificed for administrative convenience’.

16 May 2018 - 7:02AM

Hong Kong Basic Law

‘Nothing hardline’ about urging respect for China’s socialist system

Ronny Tong voices disappointment at pan-democrats’ reaction to former law committee chief’s comments, but says no need for further legislation enforcing Beijing’s rule over city

22 Apr 2018 - 6:14PM

Ronny Tong said the national constitution is by definition applicable to the whole country. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

Carrie Lam puts ex-immigration chief in charge of office

Eric Chan immediately accepted the role of director of Lam’s interim office.

4 May 2017 - 11:06PM

Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor (left) with Hong Kong’s former immigration director Eric Chan Kwok-ki, who will head up her interim office. Photo: Nora Tam

Hong Kong’s popular John Tsang spent big on campaign advertisements

27 Apr 2017 - 11:05PM

Revealed: John Tsang secretly lent HK$3m for top job bid

The person offered the loan to the former financial secretary through offshore company Prescill Holdings a day before Tsang announced his election bid.

27 Apr 2017 - 11:10PM

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Carrie Lam paid election campaign team HK$2m

27 Apr 2017 - 5:52PM

The chief executive candidates (clockwise from above left) Carrie Lam, John Tsang, Woo Kwok-hing and Regina Ip. Photos: David Wong, Dickson Lee, Xiaomei Chen, Jonathan Wong

Big business gave significant donations to Carrie Lam

27 Apr 2017 - 11:59AM

Regina Ip now thinking about joining Carrie Lam’s cabinet

25 Apr 2017 - 11:13PM

Will companies embrace gender diversity with Carrie Lam as Hong Kong’s leader?

17 Apr 2017 - 10:23PM

Will HK’s Democrats see reason, or become the party of futility?

13 Apr 2017 - 6:49PM

Then chief-executive hopeful Carrie Lam and Wu Chi-wai, chair of the Democratic Party, meet at the Legislative Council in Tamar on February 9. Lam won the March 26 chief executive election with 777 votes. Photo: Dickson Lee

Xi Jinping reminds Carrie Lam of need to solve conflicts

11 Apr 2017 - 11:41PMvideocam

Lam holds long session with top Hong Kong affairs official

10 Apr 2017 - 11:33PM

Data protection is a serious responsibility

10 Apr 2017 - 1:01AM

Candidates Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor (left) and Woo Kwok-hing (right) watch the vote-counting process of the Chief Executive election in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai. Photo: Robert Ng

City Beat | Torn between two sides, Carrie Lam’s delicate task is to satisfy both

9 Apr 2017 - 8:01PM

The reality is that as chief executive Carrie Lam will have to serve two masters. Photo: Sam Tsang

Carrie Lam ‘working around the clock’ to find ministers

9 Apr 2017 - 10:59PM

Legislative Council elections 2016

Stolen laptops triggers security review at Hong Kong electoral office

8 Apr 2017 - 4:08PM

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Martin Lee sets Carrie Lam two conditions if she wants Democrats on board

12 Oct 2017 - 2:39PM

Martin Lee says Beijing has failed its promise to Hongkongers of universal suffrage. Photo: Jonathan Wong

John Tsang aide waits for word on possible job with Carrie Lam

6 Apr 2017 - 9:01PM

Leung Chun-ying (CY Leung)

Beijing always had power to appoint Hong Kong’s leader, CY Leung says

6 Apr 2017 - 9:01PM

Carrie Lam prepares for Beijing trip and formal appointment

6 Apr 2017 - 11:29PM

Carrie Lam and husband Lam Siu-por (left) will embark on a four-day trip to Beijing from Sunday. Photo: Robert Ng