Popular News From Popular Sites: Hong Kong students take democracy fight to home of city's leader

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Hong Kong students take democracy fight to home of city's leader

An elderly man attends a rally on the third day of a week-long boycott of classes to demand for greater democracy, in Hong Kong By Yimou Lee HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds of students marched to the official residence of Hong Kong's leader Leung Chun-ying on Thursday to demand a meeting as tensions simmer over the financial hub's democratic future. Hong Kong returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997 as a "special administrative region" with a high degree of autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed on mainland China under a formula known as "one country, two systems". ...




Read More http://ift.tt/YcNiRD

No comments:

Post a Comment