Earlier this summer, China rejected a report submitted by Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, that assessed protesters’ five key demands and found that withdrawing a contentious extradition bill could help defuse the mounting political crisis in the territory, sources say.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is going to visit Myanmar on Saturday at a time when Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is facing global criticism due to alleged atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in the country’s Rakhine state, reports The Standard.