HONG KONG: Thousands of Hong Kong residents took to the streets on Wednesday (Jan 1) for the city’s largest anti-government protest in weeks, hoping to inject new momentum into a months-long movement.
Wednesday’s protest is only the second large-scale demonstration to be authorised by the police since voters in November overwhelmingly elected pro-democracy politicians to neighbourhood offices. That vote, a stinging rebuke to Communist Party officials in China, ushered in the longest period of relative calm since the city was first convulsed by protests in June.