Isolated band of protesters holds out on trashed Hong Kong campus
Much of Hong Kong`s Polytechnic University, which teemed with 33,000 students, faculty and staff in the most recent school year, has become a deserted wasteland.
Nov 21, 2019, 19:29 PM IST
Fears of bloodshed as Hong Kong university standoff enters third day
China’s top legislature, commenting on a ruling that said a proposed ban on face masks worn by protesters was unlawful, said Hong Kong courts had no power to rule on the constitutionality of the city`s legislation, according to state media outlet Xinhua. The statement came a day after Hong Kong`s High Court vetoed the ban, imposed using colonial-era emergency powers, on wearing face masks during public demonstrations.
Nov 19, 2019, 11:20 AM IST
Footage shows daring escape by Hong Kong protesters on motorbikes
After shimmying down plastic hosing from a bridge they had been occupying on the university campus, the black-clad protesters are seen clambering onto waiting motorbikes and being driven away by supporters, in dramatic moments captured by a Reuters reporter.
Nov 18, 2019, 23:14 PM IST
Hong Kong readies for more chaos as violence spreads citywide
Police fired tear gas at protesters overnight, while some activists torched a vehicle, hurled petrol bombs at a police station and metro train and broke into a major shopping mall. Hundreds of commuters were seen queuing at metro stations across the city early on Wednesday after some railway services were suspended and roads closed.
Nov 13, 2019, 07:43 AM IST
Hong Kong police fire tear gas as transport chaos grips city
Some roads were closed early in the morning with long traffic jams building during rush hour, a day after some of the worst violence to rock the former British colony. A protester was shot by police and a man set on fire on Monday. Riot police were deployed at metro stations across the territory, while rail operator MTR Corp urged people to use other forms of transport.
Nov 12, 2019, 09:18 AM IST
Hong Kong police open fire wounding protester
Video footage showed a protester lying in a pool of blood with his eyes wide open. Police also pepper-sprayed and subdued a woman nearby as plastic crates were thrown at officers, the video shared on social media showed. Reuters could not immediately authenticate the footage.
Nov 11, 2019, 08:44 AM IST
Death of Hong Kong student likely to trigger further protests
Chow Tsz-lok, 22, an undergraduate at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (UST), died of injuries he suffered early on Monday when he fell from the third to the second floor of a parking lot during a police dispersal operation.
Nov 08, 2019, 14:47 PM IST
Scores injured, one critical in chaotic weekend of Hong Kong protests
Chinese state media called on Monday for a tougher line against the protesters, who vandalised the local offices of state-run Xinhua news agency and other buildings, saying the violence damaged the city`s rule of law. More demonstrations are planned this week to keep up the pressure for demands that include an independent inquiry into police behaviour and universal suffrage.
Nov 05, 2019, 00:04 AM IST
Hong Kong braces for Halloween havoc as protesters target party district
Every weekend, the bars in Lan Kwai Fong spill on to the streets office goers, clubbers and expatriate families, even without the activists who have thrown petrol bombs at police, set fires and trashed buildings during five months of unrest. A stampede at midnight on New Year`s Eve in 1992, when thousands had gathered, killed at least 20 and wounded scores.
Oct 30, 2019, 15:00 PM IST
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to visit Japan after huge rally, night of violence
Early on Monday, Hong Kong embarked on a massive clean-up after a largely peaceful protest degenerated into violence across districts on the Kowloon peninsula, where protesters torched stores and sprayed graffiti on roads, amid skirmishes with police.
Oct 21, 2019, 08:55 AM IST
Hong Kong leader offers no olive branch as jeers force her to abandon address
Carrie Lam, who had to broadcast the annual address via a video link after the rowdy scenes in the Legislative Council, had hoped to try to restore confidence in her administration after four months of often violent anti-government and anti-China protests.
Oct 16, 2019, 19:24 PM IST
Hong Kong protests: Xi Jinping warns attempts to divide China will end in 'crushed bones'
Chinese President Xi Jinping has issued a stern warning against dissent as protests continue in Hong Kong, saying any attempt to divide China will end in "crushed bodies and shattered bones". His comments came during a state visit to Nepal on Sunday, the BBC reported citing China`s state broadcaster CCTV.
Oct 14, 2019, 23:45 PM IST
Hundreds return to Hong Kong streets as metro, shops shut after violence
Friday`s protests across the Chinese-ruled city erupted hours after its embattled leader, Carrie Lam, invoked colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years to ban the face masks demonstrators use to hide their identities. The night`s "extreme violence" justified the use of the emergency law, Beijing-backed Lam said in a television address on Saturday.
Oct 05, 2019, 14:11 PM IST
Hong Kong brings back colonial-era emergency powers to quell protests
Lam, speaking at a news conference, said a ban on face masks would take effect on Saturday under the emergency laws that allow authorities to "make any regulations whatsoever" in whatever they deem to be in the public interest.
Oct 04, 2019, 18:40 PM IST
Police shoot teen protester as Hong Kong violence escalates
Cat-and-mouse clashes spread from the shopping district of Causeway Bay to the Admiralty area of government offices on Hong Kong island, and then on to the New Territories bordering mainland China, with police firing tear gas and water cannon at petrol bomb-throwing activists.
Oct 01, 2019, 23:58 PM IST
Hong Kong protesters to rally after another night of violence
Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans in a New Territories shopping mall as pro-China demonstrators sang the Chinese national anthem on Victoria Peak under a sweltering sun.
Sep 29, 2019, 13:16 PM IST
Hong Kong cleans up after latest violence ahead of October 1 anniversary
Hong Kong Police on Sunday fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the latest clashes in more than three months of unrest that has plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its worst political crisis in decades.
Sep 23, 2019, 09:56 AM IST
Hong Kong riot police move to curb airport protest after violent clashes
The Airport Express train, which takes passengers under the harbour and across a series of bridges to the airport, built on reclaimed land around an outlying island, was only allowing passengers to board in downtown Hong Kong, not on the Kowloon peninsula, the Airport Authority said.
Sep 22, 2019, 10:53 AM IST
In plea to former colonial power, Hong Kong protesters sing ‘God save the queen’
The Chinese-ruled territory has been rocked by weeks of sometimes violent pro-democracy protests, with demonstrators angry about what they see as creeping interference by Beijing in their city's affairs despite a promise of autonomy.
Sep 15, 2019, 10:25 AM IST
Hong Kong protesters hit pause in remembrance of 9/11 attacks
Hong Kong has been rocked by months of sometimes violent unrest, prompted by anger over planned legislation that would have allowed extraditions to China.
Sep 11, 2019, 11:44 AM IST
