Hong Kong Leader Offers Billions in Handouts in Bid to Calm Unrest

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Hong Kong leader’s plan to calm Hong Kong: more than $2 billion in social-welfare programs

HONG KONG—Pro-democracy lawmakers shouted down Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and forced her to deliver an address by video in which she promised billions of dollars in social-welfare initiatives, but resisted the political demands of antigovernment protesters who have disrupted the city for more than four months.

Twice Mrs. Lam went to the podium of the Legislative Council to deliver her annual policy speech, only to be interrupted by opposition lawmakers’ chant of “five demands, not one less,” a popular protest slogan. The...

 

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Bread and Circus so they won't pay attention to what's behind the curtain

Hk people should protest against those real estate developers for sucking their blood

The social welfare programmme that does not benefit teenagers/youngsters at all! Also no benefits for small and medium enterprises.

buying peace, pact with terrorists is wrong. it will never work.

Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) convener Jimmy Sham was attacked today (Oct 16) in Mong Kok. Attackers smashed his head with hammers, causing heavy blood loss.

The HK gov is now a people-killing and totalitarian regime. We want democracy. The only way to calm Hong Kong people is to give us democracy and freedom that we deserve. Give us freedom or give us death. 5 demands, not one less. StandwithHongKong

Yes and she proposed to relax the mortgage rules and allow Hong Kong people to borrow up to 900k USD in order to buy one the most unaffordable housing on the planet, while the developers continue to suck every drop of blood of them. Great policy.

How about civil liberties and no oppression instead?

Paid in renminbi? Heh.

She still don’t get it. Her housing policies are such a pain which may solve short term issues but actually dig a deeper hole and may repeat the financial crisis. Please, work on the fundamental, the housing price, the long medic quene, the lack of elderly support

Hong Kong right now

Wherre did the billion$ come from? 🤔

Throw money at the problem. That usually works out well.

Or she could just resign.

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