In Hong Kong, protest leaders say that police intend to charge at least nine activists, including students and academics, who helped organise or lead Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests in 2014. The move to charge the activists comes a day after a new Beijing-backed city leader was chosen to run the Asian financial hub and vowed to unify a divided Hong Kong. Carrie Lam was selected as the new Chief Executive yesterday by a committee dominated by pro-China voters.<br/><br/>The "Umbrella Movement" street occupations in late 2014 called for genuine democracy in the former British colony, and paralysed key roads for 79 days, but failed to win concessions from Beijing.