Carrie Lam is congratulated by her husband and son after she won the election for Hong Kong's next chief executive in Hong Kong on Sunday. (Reuters photo)HONG KONG - A Hong Kong committee has chosen the government's former No. 2 official Carrie Lam to be the semiautonomous Chinese city's next leader. The 1,194-member election committee picked Lam to be Hong Kong's new chief executive on Sunday. Lam won with 777 votes while her closest rival, former financial secretary John Tsang, got 365 votes.

Source: Bangkok Post March 26, 2017 05:48 UTC