Hong Kong’s leader managed to pacify her political allies in the legislature on Friday, as she announced a new monthly cash handout to compensate senior citizens who would be deprived of their regular allowances because of contentious revisions to an existing old-age benefit.
A day after pro-establishment lawmakers joined forces with their opposition colleagues to rebuke her in the Legislative Council for raising the age threshold from 60 to 65 years for Comprehensive Social Security...
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