Clashes break out between riot police and students protesting at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Sha Tin on Tuesday. Photo: Sam Tsang
Stay or go? Hong Kong’s international students pack their bags amid protest chaos
- Foreign students are being called home or face the agonising decision of whether to wait out the unrest
- Hundreds of mainland Chinese students are also fleeing, while Taiwan is evacuating 81 from Chinese University after campus clashes
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Clashes break out between riot police and students protesting at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Sha Tin on Tuesday. Photo: Sam Tsang
Students protesting at Chinese University prepare for clashes with police. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong protests: city crippled for third straight day as radicals torch tunnel tollbooths, take over roads in 10 districts and vandalise train stations
- City woke up to more gridlock with Cross-Harbour Tunnel barricaded as early as 6am, while roads are blocked and trains slowed
- Actions continued throughout day and, at night, a flash mob appeared at Cross-Harbour Tunnel tollbooths to set them on fire
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Students protesting at Chinese University prepare for clashes with police. Photo: Sam Tsang