{"id":10047,"date":"2014-10-05T22:08:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T06:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=10047"},"modified":"2014-10-05T22:08:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T06:08:05","slug":"hongkongstudents-defiant-regrouping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2014\/10\/hongkongstudents-defiant-regrouping\/","title":{"rendered":"#HongKongStudents defiant, regrouping"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eyder Peralta,\u00a0NPR<\/a><\/em>, October 5, 2014–\u00a0Update at 10:35 a.m. ET. No Sign Of Dispersing:\u00a0<\/strong>Watching\u00a0a live feed from the Admiralty and Mong Kok<\/a>\u00a0areas of Hong Kong, one thing is for certain: It does not appear that protesters are going anywhere. In fact, it appears that crowds in those two areas have grown.<\/p>\n

The South China Morning Post reports<\/a>\u00a0that Federation of Students secretary-general Alex Chow Yong-kang addressed the crowd this evening, saying they are preparing for talks with the government.<\/p>\n

Chow, however, noted that their demands had not changed: The federation wants to be able to nominate whoever they want as the city’s next chief executive.<\/p>\n

Update at 8:15 a.m. ET. Confusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reporting from Hong Kong, NPR’s Anthony Kuhn says that just as some protesters announced they were leaving the area surrounding the Chief Executive’s Office, other protesters came in.<\/p>\n

This protest, he says, has, after all, been very decentralized.<\/p>\n

The South China Morning Post has some detail<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“As the Mong Kok protesters were divided on moving out, there was similar confusion in Admiralty as dozens of protesters re-occupied the junction of Lung Wo Road and Tim Wa Avenue (the main entrance to CY Leung’s office) just moments after the crowd voted to clear that area.<\/p>\n

“‘We strove hard to get this site. We shouldn’t give up this site without any government decision in favour of us,’ said Ben Liu Chi-fung, 20.<\/p>\n

“‘The chief executive’s office is an important site,’ said student Tanson Tsui. ‘I think we cannot give up the basic principle of our demonstration: to press for the government to undo the unjust electoral reform framework.’ “<\/p>\n

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