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Ray Wong, convenor of Hong Kong Indigenous who also took a role in the early stage of the protests, disagreed with Leung Chun-Ying framing the clashes as a "riot", stating that protestors were only helping the hawkers to do business until the police rushed into Shantung Street at midnight. He dismissed the claim that the violent clashes were ...
Joshua Wong Chi-fung (Chinese: 黃之鋒; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Jīfūng; born 13 October 1996) is a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and politician. He served as secretary-general of the pro-democracy party Demosistō until it disbanded following implementation of the Hong Kong national security law on 30 June 2020.
The Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動) was a political movement that emerged during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. [2] [3] [4] Its name arose from the use of umbrellas as a tool for passive resistance to the Hong Kong Police Force's use of pepper spray to disperse the crowd during a 79-day occupation of the city demanding more transparent elections, which was sparked by the decision of ...
The vandalism came ahead of a planned University of Washington Board of Regents meeting on Thursday. The university was one of numerous schools across the country that was home to a multi-week ...
On April 3, 2009, a mass shooting occurred at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York.At approximately 10:30 a.m. EDT, Jiverly Antares Wong (also known as Jiverly Voong) entered the facility and killed thirteen people and wounded four others before committing suicide.
These demonstrations became violent in some cities, with reports of arson, vandalism and other criminal acts emerging from Changsha and Qingdao. Japanese-made cars were vandalized in numerous cities. [32] Around 10 Japanese companies in Qingdao were damaged. [33] Anti-Japanese protesters set on fire a sales outlet of Toyota Motor. [33]
Drunken Master features Chan and Yuen Siu-tien as fictionalized versions of martial artists Wong Fei-hung and Beggar So; in the film, Wong is an irreverent young man forced under the fierce tutelage of So, master of the drunken fighting style; although the two do not originally get along, Wong eventually gains humility and respect for So.
At approximately 4:55 a.m., 911 dispatchers advised that there were multiple vandalism calls throughout the city that appeared to be related, according to a Durham Police Department statement.