Causeway Bay
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About Causeway Bay
Causeway Bay is Hong Kong's energetic retail heart. Luxury malls, department stores and boutiques pack its western end, while bargain hunters roam the Jardine's Crescent street market. Numerous dining options, from upscale restaurants to street-food stalls, dot the area. Local meeting points include Hong Kong Central Library, with its historic collections, and tranquil Victoria Park, popular for Tai chai sessions.
Tiananmen Square: Hong Kong police detain activists on anniversary of massacre
... Ms Wong was quickly surrounded by police and driven away on Sunday in the city s Causeway Bay area...
Lam Wing-kee: HK bookseller, defied China opened up shop in Taiwan
... Causeway Bay books was destroyed, by China, by violent means...
Hong Kong policeman shoots protester during roadblock
... Protesters built barricades in Causeway Bay The violence also prompted a warning from a senior Chinese newspaper editor at a tabloid published by the state-owned People s Daily...
Picture power: Masked protest in Hong Kong
... However, I worked with a fantastic fixer who recommended we try to take the pictures during a planned anti-totalitarianism rally at the end of September, heading from Causeway Bay toward Admiralty...
Hong Kong: Transport paralysed in goes against rioters
... hundreds of demonstrators, many of them wearing masks, marched through the Causeway Bay shopping district on Saturday...
China anniversary: Clashes as Hong Kong protesters defy police ban
... On the streets of Hong Kong Island s dense downtown, from Admiralty to Causeway Bay, protesters played cat and mouse with police, setting a trail of fires in their wake...
Hong Kong protests: petrol bombs and water cannon used during clashes
... What happened in the conflict? police had denied a permit for the March on Sunday, thousands of people were still marching from Causeway Bay and Central, the main business and shopping district...
Hong Kong police storm metro system after protests
... What else happened on Saturday? Protesters took to the streets in the Wan Chai district, many joining a Christian march, while others demonstrated in the Causeway Bay shopping district in the pouring rain...
Hong Kong: Transport paralysed in goes against rioters
the Majority of Hong Kong 's metro system remains closed, after A Day that saw the stations and companies, in Violent anti-government attacked the protests.
Only, The Airport Express remained open, as the protesters demonstrations in the Autonomous Chinese territory started fresh.
Chief executive Carrie Lam has defended its decision to invoke emergency decree in order to restore order.
Hong Kong had been through a "very dark night" of the "extreme violence," She Said .
the unrest took care on Friday after a young demonstrator shot in the leg by a Police Officer .
protesters will have to defy also announced to the people a prohibition of face masks by Ms Lam.
Ms Lam message has been transferred, which began on local mediaunrest in the former British colony in June, triggered by the proposals of the extradition of offenders to Mainland China .
The delivery of the invoice was cancelled then, But protests widened in the pro-democracy and anti-police demonstrations.
What is The Situation on Saturday is?MTR (Mass Transit Railway), the railway operator, said that it was, as the repairs were always made in the case of damaged stations. A limited bus service would be available.
supermarkets, and banks were closed, reeling from the Friday chaos when rioters targeted MTR stations, and, reportedly, companies with ties to Mainland China .
"The radical behavior of the rioters in Hong Kong took a very dark night, left paralyzed society today half," Ms Lam said in a pre-recorded video statement.
"The extreme violence is clearly shown that Hong Kong is at risk the safety of the public widely. This is the specific reason that we had to invoke Emergency Law yesterday, the introduction of the anti-mask Law . "
"We can not allow rioters added to destroy our valuable Hong Kong ," She Said .
hundreds of demonstrators, many of them wearing masks, marched through The Causeway Bay shopping district on Saturday.
"We are not sure what will happen later, But we felt we had to Get Out and show our basic right to wear a mask," Sue, 22, told the Reuters news Agency, behind her Black Mask and dark glasses.
Glass was The government needs to learn to not squeeze Hong Kong people like these can be broken at some stations". "
A French resident, who has his first name Marko, told the news Agency AFP news agency, The Face mask ban was the "adding oil to The Fire ".
"But I think that the people who destroyed it are the stations of the extremists," he said.
pressure from the business lobby -By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, Bbc News , Hong Kong
The radical Hong Kong protesters were wearing masks, in part to protect against tear Gas - But also on the protection of their anonymity. For both reasons, the Hong Kong government, the wearing of masks will be stopped.
By midnight (16:00 GMT) Friday anyone caught on the street with a mask wearing will be ordered to remove it. Mask-wearing protesters to be arrested, and could Face Up to a year in prison. Carrie Lam , which is under strong pressure from the powerful business lobby for an end to the protests.
The violence on The Streets reached a new level This Week , But the invocation of the Emergency Law for the First Time in More Than 50 Years , could also escalate The Conflict .
The radical student groups leading the protests said they would defy The Law .
How dangerous is The Situation ?over the months, clashes between police and activists are becoming increasingly Violent .
Causeway Bay MTR station was by The Firedamaged On Tuesday, the police shot a protester with a live ball for the First Time and injured the 18-year-olds, the alleged assault on a Police Officer .
On Friday, a boy aged 14 was shot in the leg with a live round in Yuen Long, a town in The West of The City .
A plain-clothes policeman in an unmarked police car was later in the same area, But the officials did not link the two incidents, The South China Morning Post reported.
What is Hong Kong 's status is?Hong Kong is a former British colony returned to China in 1997.
It has guaranteed a "one country, two systems" agreement that there is a certain degree of autonomy, and its people certain Freedoms , including of Assembly and freedom of speech.
But these Freedoms , the basic Law , will Expire in 2047 and it is not clear what Hong Kong is its status then.
hong kong anti-government protests, hong kong extradition bill, hong kong, carrie lam
Source of news: bbc.com
