{"id":44939,"date":"2019-10-04T14:46:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T06:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44939"},"modified":"2019-10-04T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T06:55:12","slug":"hong-kongs-carrie-lam-should-resign-says-mahathir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44939","title":{"rendered":"Best is to resign, Mahathir on Hong Kong&#8217;s Carrie Lam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PETALING JAYA, Oct 4 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia&#8217;s Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said it would be best for Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive\u00a0Carrie Lam to resign following the protracted\u00a0anti-government demonstrations. He also predicted that\u00a0China will eventually take severe action against the protestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fact is that she is in a dilemma;&nbsp;she has to obey the masters and, at the same time, has to ask her own conscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHer conscience says that the people of Hong Kong are right in rejecting the law&nbsp;but, on the other hand, she knows the consequences of rejecting the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut for the administrator, I think, the best thing to do is resign,\u201d he said in a question-and-answer session&nbsp;during the&nbsp;opening of LAWASIA\u2019s&nbsp;inaugural Constitutional and Rule of Law Conference, here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anti-government protests on a proposed extradition law&nbsp;have rocked Hong Kong since June although the bill has since been rescinded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed law would allow the transfer of fugitives to jurisdictions with which Hong Kong lacks an extradition deal, including mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETALING JAYA, Oct 4 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia&#8217;s Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said it would be best for Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive\u00a0Carrie Lam to resign following the protracted\u00a0anti-government demonstrations. He also predicted that\u00a0China will eventually take severe action against the protestors. \u201cThe fact is that she is in a dilemma;&nbsp;she has to obey the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":31886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}