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    1. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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      Will Carrie Lam get the fresh start she wants with policy address amid continuing Hong Kong protests? Follow our #LIVE blog for the latest:https://buff.ly/2MNuIuv 

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    2. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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      #LIVE: Carrie Lam has entered the Legco chamber. Dressed in a pink suit, she gets ready to deliver her third policy address. She is heckled by pan-democrats from both inside and outside the renovated chamberhttps://sc.mp/fcy9v 

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    3. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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      #LIVE: The Legco meeting is suspended within minutes after two pan-democrats were ordered to leave the chamber. Lam was being repeatedly heckled inside and outside the chamber as she tried in vain to outline her government's policy programmehttp://sc.mp/fcy9v 

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    4. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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      #LIVE: Most lawmakers have returned to their seats in the legislature, as they wait for Lam's speech to resume. Tanya Chan and Raymond Chan, who were earlier asked to leave, remain absenthttp://sc.mp/fcy9v 

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      SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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      #LIVE: Carrie Lam has re-entered the chamber to resume her speech, but lawmakers are still shouting and protesting. She is interrupted while the Legco president tries to restore orderhttp://sc.mp/fcy9v 

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        2. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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          #LIVE: The meeting has been adjournedhttp://sc.mp/fcy9v 

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          #LIVE: The government has not announced what will happen next after the suspension. Sources from the administration previously said delivering the address by pre-recorded message was an optionhttp://sc.mp/fcy9v 

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        4. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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          #LIVE: Government sources say that Lam is not expected to return to the Legco building today after it was taken over by scenes of mayhemhttp://sc.mp/fcy9v 

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        5. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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          #LIVE: The scene earlier as Lam left Legco http://sc.mp/fcy9v pic.twitter.com/DFNXxBx6D6

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        6. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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          #LIVE: "When 80 per cent of people in Hong Kong do not believe she has the mandate to govern, she has no right to deliver the policy address in Legco," said one pro-democracy lawmakerhttp://sc.mp/fcy9v 

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        7. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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          #LIVE: The government says Lam's speech will be delivered in a video address airing at 12.15pm today rather than live from the Legco chamberhttp://sc.mp/fcy9v 

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        8. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 15
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          #LIVE: Having restarted her speech via video, Lam urges society to let Hong Kong return to normal. She says there will be 200 initiatives in this addresshttp://sc.mp/fcy9v 

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