{"id":11128,"date":"2019-11-15T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/15\/hong-kong-protesters-lift-highway-blockade-on-proviso-elections-proceed"},"modified":"2019-11-16T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:56:09","slug":"hong-kong-protesters-lift-highway-blockade-on-proviso-elections-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11128","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong universities call for &#8216;concrete action&#8217; to break deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heads say government response to protests \u2018ineffective\u2019 as campuses overrun<\/p>\n<p>The heads of nine universities in Hong Kong have criticised the government for its \u201cineffective\u201d response to the political unrest that moved to the city\u2019s campuses this week.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by presidents of some of the region\u2019s top academic institutions said Hong Kong had seen a rapid escalation of violence in the last week, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/14\/second-death-in-hong-kong-protests-as-xi-demands-end-to-violence\">deaths of two people <\/a>. Several universities were now under protesters\u2019 control, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/15\/hong-kong-protesters-lift-highway-blockade-on-proviso-elections-proceed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads say government response to protests \u2018ineffective\u2019 as campuses overrunThe heads of nine universities in Hong Kong have criticised the government for its \u201cineffective\u201d response to the political unrest that moved to the city\u2019s campuses this week.A s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}