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Hong Kong anti-government protesters crowded a shopping mall in running clashes with police on Sunday during which a man with a knife slashed several people and bit off part of a local politician’s ear. CBC | World News
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Hong Kong chaos sees tear gas, attack on Chinese news agency
Anti-government protesters have attacked the Hong Kong office of China’s official Xinhua News Agency as their movement approached the five-month mark. CBC | World News
Read More »Hong Kong enters recession as economy shrinks amid protests
Hong Kong’s economy shrank 3.2 per cent from the July-September period from the previous quarter, pushing the city into a technical recession, the government says. CBC | World News
Read More »Hong Kong counts down to Halloween protest in popular party district
Hong Kong police tightened security and braced for potential evening clashes on Thursday between masked “Halloween” pro-democracy protesters and fancy-dressed clubbers in a popular party district in the heart of the city. CBC | World News
Read More »Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong barred from Hong Kong election
Hong Kong authorities barred high-profile pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong from an election, and the city’s leader ruled out political solutions before the end of the violent protests gripping the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. CBC | World News
Read More »Hong Kong bans posting of police officers’ personal details
Hong Kong authorities have won a temporary court order banning anyone from posting personal details or photos of police officers online, in their latest effort to clamp down on the city’s protest movement. CBC | World News
Read More »Hundreds of shops trashed as Hong Kong police, protesters clash
Hong Kong police and protesters exchanged tear gas and petrol bombs as an illegal anti-government march that attracted tens of thousands descended into chaos, with hundreds of shops trashed and Chinese banks and metro stations targeted. CBC | World News
Read More »Chaos as Hong Kong lawmakers thwart leader’s annual address
In chaotic scenes, furious pro-democracy lawmakers twice forced Hong Kong’s leader to stop delivering a speech laying out her policy objectives and clamoured for her to resign after she walked out of the legislature on Wednesday and then delivered the annual address 75 minutes late via television. CBC | World News
Read More »Hong Kong protesters take violence to new ‘life-threatening’ level, say police
Violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have escalated to a “life-threatening level,” police said Monday after a small bomb exploded and a police officer was stabbed overnight. CBC | World News
Read More »China criticizes Apple for app that tracks Hong Kong police
Apple became the latest company targeted for Chinese pressure over protests in Hong Kong when the ruling Communist Party’s main newspaper criticized the tech giant Wednesday for a smartphone app that allows activists to report police movements. CBC | World News
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