Chaos in Hong Kong as Carrie Lam forced to abandon 'state of the union' address amid protests

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Opposition MPs projected messages onto wall behind chief executive in parliament and chanted pro-democracy slogans

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's yellow-starred red flag to her right and Hong Kong's flag on her left, she announced a plan to use a colonial-era ordinance to take back about 700 hectares of private land for use as public housing, a measure known as “resumption” that has not been carried out successfully since Britain handed the territory back to China in 1997.

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