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• Hong Kong protests brought ‘sadness, anxiety’ in 2019, Carrie Lam says

  In a News Year's address, Carrie Lam said that 2019 brought ``challenges not seen before,'' and that she would ``listen humbly'' to help bring an end to the protests, which have featured pitched battles between demonstrators and police.

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  Dec 31, 2019
  
• Hong Kong police fire tear gas at protesters in Christmas Eve shopping scuffle

  The protests, now in their seventh month, have lost some of the scale and intensity of earlier violent confrontations.

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  Dec 24, 2019
  
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• Hong Kong protesters use money as a weapon as protests continue

  Digging in for the long haul against Hong Kong's government, protesters are expanding their struggle from the streets to their wallets, weaponizing their spending power to punish businesses they deem hostile to their cause. The aim: to drive some firms under in the deepening recession gripping the crisis-hit city.

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  Dec 17, 2019
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• Hong Kong protesters get green light for big march after pro-democracy election sweep

  Some calm has descended since the Nov.24 district elections, when pro-democracy candidates won nearly 90% of the seats.

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  Dec 5, 2019
• More Hong Kong protesters surrender to police as campus siege nears end

  At least 23 people left Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which has been ringed by riot police for days, as the campus siege edged closer to an end.

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  Nov 21, 2019
• Last Hong Kong protesters at Polytechnic University surrounded by police

  City leader Carrie Lam said 600 people had left the Hong Kong Polytechnic campus, including 200 who are under 18 years old.

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  Nov 19, 2019
• Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus burns as protesters, police clash

  Now in its fifth month, the Hong Kong protest movement has steadily intensified as local and Beijing authorities harden their positions and refuse to make concessions.

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  Nov 18, 2019
• Hong Kong police trap hundreds inside university, seal off roads

  Hundreds of defiant protesters inside Hong Kong's Polytechnic University faced off against a police water cannon and armoured vehicles in raging battles that lasted an entire day and through the night.

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  Nov 17, 2019
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• Chinese troops join cleanup effort in Hong Kong as protesters retreat

  City workers, residents and even some Chinese army troops stationed in the semiautonomous territory came out to clear streets that protesters had strewn with debris to slow down any police advance while they had been on campus.

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  Nov 16, 2019
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• University students flee Hong Kong as violent protests escalate

  For the third day in a row, protesters caused major train service disruptions Wednesday, blocked streets and rallied in the central business district. They hunkered down for expected clashes with police at university campuses.

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  Nov 13, 2019