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Hong Kong's public universities record highest number of dropouts since 2004
Published on 03/03/2021
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's eight publicly-funded universities last year recorded the highest number of dropouts since at least 2004, with more than 2,100 students quitting school amid the double whammy of social unrest and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hong Kong police enter ransacked campus after protest siege
AFP, Published on 28/11/2019
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong police on Thursday entered a ransacked university campus where authorities faced off for days with barricaded pro-democracy protesters, looking for petrol bombs and other dangerous materials left over from the occupation.
On Hong Kong campus, elusive protesters and an uncertain future
AFP, Published on 27/11/2019
» HONG KONG: Staff at one of Hong Kong's top universities picked through the chaotic aftermath of a violent occupation by protesters for a second day Wednesday as the school searches for elusive holdouts -- and a way forward for a devastated institution.
Black shadows flit through Hong Kong's devastated campus
AFP, Published on 22/11/2019
» HONG KONG: Black shadows flitting around in small groups, deserted rubbish-strewn corridors and cockroaches in disemboweled kitchens: dawn broke on Friday to reveal a post-apocalyptic scene at a Hong Kong campus six days after a police siege began.
Hong Kong campus stalemate persists as US bill annoys China
AFP, Published on 21/11/2019
» HONG KONG: Hard-line anti-government protesters held their ground on Thursday in a university besieged for days by police as the US passed a bill lauding the city's pro-democracy movement, setting up a likely clash between Washington and Beijing.
SOS: Diehards hold out at Hong Kong campus as foreign pressure rises
AFP, Published on 20/11/2019
» HONG KONG - Dozens of pro-democracy protesters stood firm within a besieged Hong Kong campus on Wednesday, where an "SOS" sign was laid out as police said they had made 700 arrests since the university became the epicentre of the most intense confrontation in the city's near-six month crisis.
Diehards hold out at Hong Kong campus as foreign pressure grows
AFP, Published on 20/11/2019
» HONG KONG - A few dozen pro-democracy protesters remained holed up inside a besieged Hong Kong university campus for a fourth straight day on Wednesday as supporters took up online calls to disrupt the city’s train network in a bid to distract police.
Hong Kong siege in third day as China sounds warnings
AFP, Published on 19/11/2019
» HONG KONG: A potentially deadly standoff between Hong Kong police and dozens of desperate protesters barricaded into a university campus moved into a third day Tuesday, as China issued fresh warnings its patience with nearly six months of unrest was running out.
Dozens of Hong Kong protesters make daring campus breakout
AFP, Published on 18/11/2019
» HONG KONG: Dozens of Hong Kong protesters escaped a two-day police siege at a campus late Monday by shimmying down a rope from a bridge to awaiting motorbikes in a dramatic and perilous breakout that followed a renewed warning by Beijing of a possible intervention to end the crisis engulfing the city.
Protesters set fire to hold off police at Hong Kong campus
AFP, Published on 18/11/2019
» HONG KONG - Pro-democracy demonstrators holed up in a Hong Kong university campus set the main entrance ablaze Monday to prevent surrounding police moving in, after officers warned they may use live rounds if confronted by deadly weapons.