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Students armed with petrol bombs - and bows and arrows - clash with police overnight in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s underground subway system was closed amid further violence overnight.

POLICE HAVE INCREASED security around Hong Kong and its university campuses as they braced for more violence after sharp clashes overnight with anti-government protesters.

Many subway and rail stations were closed after the protesters blocked commutes and vandalised trains overnight into today.

Police and protesters battled on multiple fronts overnight at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, with petrol bombs and fires lighting up the night time scene.

A police official warned protesters were carrying out “insane acts” and Hong Kong was on the brink of a total breakdown after more than five months of protests.

“Our society has been pushed to the brink of a total breakdown,” Senior Police Superintendent Kong Wing-heung said late last night.

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He said Hong Kong’s mass transit system and subway, known as MRT, was under stress from acts of violence and vandalism.

“Masked rioters have lost control and committed insane acts like throwing trash, bicycles and large objects onto MTR tracks, hanging trash on overhead power lines,” he added.

Groups of riot police were deployed around central Hong Kong and its outlying territories to try and contain new violence, even as students at the Chinese University — located in the outskirts of the sprawling metropolis — prepared for new clashes with police.

Many were armed with petrol bombs while some carried bows and arrows.

The university’s student union president, Jacky So, appealed for an injunction with the High Court to ban police from entering the campus without a warrant or the school’s approval.

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Police had entered the campus and fired tear gas and used a water cannon late yesterday.

The injunction would also block police from using crowd control weapons, such as tear gas and rubber bullets at the university, and a decision is expected later today.

The city’s religious leaders have appealed for an end to the violence and called on both police and protesters to show restraint.

“At this very critical point, the people of Hong Kong must unite and say no to violence,” said a statement issued by the leaders of Hong Kong’s six major religious groups.

Recent weeks have been marked by escalating vandalism of shops linked to mainland China and train stations, and assaults by both protesters and pro-Beijing supporters.

On Monday, a police officer drew his gun during a struggle with protesters, shooting one in the abdomen.

In another neighbourhood, a 57-year-old man who was defending China was set on fire after an apparent argument.

Both remained in a critical condition in hospital today.

Police have arrested more than 3,500 people since the movement began in June.

The protests began over a proposed law that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China, where they could face opaque and politically sensitive trials.

Activists saw the bill as another sign of an erosion in Hong Kong’s autonomy and civic freedoms, which China promised would be maintained for 50 years under a “one nation, two systems” principle when the former British colony returned to Chinese control in 1997.

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    Mute John Long
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    Mar 14th 2023, 3:50 PM

    Stomach churning stuff!

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    Mar 14th 2023, 4:45 PM

    This just goes to show you the lengths that people will go to too to lose weight when they are desperate.
    Get Wegovy on the market now! Get people having conversations with their doctors and start taking a product in a controlled manner.
    Cap the price of each pen to €100 and make it easily accessible for everybody!

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    Mar 14th 2023, 7:38 PM

    @Fi Wyse: Exercise is free and not eating dirt is a money saver.

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    Mar 14th 2023, 9:20 PM

    @Don’t Forget: well straight away you have no idea how obesity works with an ill informed comment like that. Unfortunately eating less and moving more, while it does work for a very large portion of the population does not work for everybody because we don’t all share the same metabolic rates and DNA makeup. If you want to talk about this offline and in an adult manner drop me a message on Facebook and we’ll discuss it and I’ll go through the facts with you based on my own case history.

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    Mar 14th 2023, 11:20 PM

    @Fi Wyse: Hashimotos sufferer here, well aware of how the “eat less, move more” mantra that people like Don’t Forget spout is wrong and overgeneralizing

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    Mar 15th 2023, 5:58 AM

    @Tina Kelly: It’s kinda funny really, the narrative is changing now, the medics know they got it wrong. Weight Watchers the largest slimming group in the world has acquired Sequence in America a telemedical company in the US to prescribe GLP1 meds to people.
    That tells you everything that you need to know. We are on the right path to helping people suffering with food issues all their life. Telling a larger person to just stop eating, ignore cravings and exercise is like telling a depressed person to exercise and be happy or a drug addict to just stop injecting heroin with no meds or therapy to help them. Their bias is sickening and its time to call people out on this.

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    Mar 15th 2023, 6:05 AM

    @Tina Kelly: of course you can be guaranteed that Don’t Forget will never contact me to educate himself and will continue to spout incorrect waffle!

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    Mar 15th 2023, 8:34 AM

    @Fi Wyse: was prescribed ozempic last September in hospital when my hashimotos was diagnosed after years of hypothyroidism, by Christmas my thyroid blood tests were showing signs of returning to normal levels. They are life-changing drugs and not just for their weight loss side effect.

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    Mar 15th 2023, 8:39 AM

    @Tina Kelly: I’m on it myself the last 6 months, two stone down, no joint pain, able to really enjoy my weightlifting now and all my other exercise pain free, so much more enjoyable than what it was before, because ya know I was still doing that ‘free’ exercise but not getting to where I needed to be (insert rolley eyes here)

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    Mar 14th 2023, 4:13 PM

    Botox in your stomach!?!?

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    Mar 14th 2023, 5:44 PM

    @Gearóid MacEachaidh: Far better than in the liathróidí.

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    Mar 14th 2023, 8:23 PM

    They should have walked to Turkey.

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    Mar 15th 2023, 5:56 AM

    Desperation leads to desperate measures, many more cases like this need to be highlighted more often, people going for dental treatment also, in many cases are over treated by giving multiple Crowns, Veneers, Implants etc where they are not needed, it can very often take a couple of months before realising the level of damage that has been done to the mouth.

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