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Hong Kong’s leader has expressed confidence that the city can continue to attract quality immigrants and nurture talent as she brushed aside concerns over the departure of nearly 90,000 residents since the national security law was introduced. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor also cautioned on Tuesday that the census figures, which showed the population had decreased by the greatest number of people since 2003, did not give a complete demographic picture. Data released last week by the Census and Statistics Department showed the population stood at 7.39 million people as of the middle of the year compared with 7.48...
