After 14 weekends of anti-government protest chaos and violence, there is still no let-up to Hong Kong’s worst social and political crisis since the 1997 handover of sovereignty. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor last week made a major U-turn in giving in to a key demand by protesters for the complete withdrawal of the extradition bill which first triggered the current crisis. But her concession has been widely dismissed as “too little, too late”, and if the protest violence and vandalism seen over the weekend are anything to go by, it has had little to no impact in persuading angry people to get off the streets. Vandalism by young radicals targeting MTR stations, in particular, is intensifying and endangering the safety of regular citizens who depend on this key mode of public transport. Here are some of the highlights of SCMP’s coverage.
Yonden Lhatoo
Chief News Editor
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