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Carrie Lam will find it hard to mend rifts

Published Sun, Mar 26, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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SHE has pledged to unite Hongkongers, but is reluctant to address one of the biggest sources of the city's divisiveness: political reform.

In doing so, Hong Kong's new Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam will find it hard to mend rifts in a society that appears to have grown increasingly polarised since the 2014 pro-democracy mass protests.

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Carrie Lam will find it hard to mend rifts

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India collects record 2.10 trillion rupees as goods and services tax in April

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