{"id":12580,"date":"2020-01-01T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T01:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/01\/hong-kong-police-fire-teargas-amid-new-years-eve-protests"},"modified":"2020-01-01T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T07:33:32","slug":"hong-kong-police-fire-teargas-amid-new-years-eve-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12580","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong braces for huge New Year&#8217;s Day march after night of unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marchers begin to gather after New Year\u2019s Eve violence saw police fire teargas and activists set fire to barricades <\/p>\n<p>Thousands have gathered in Hong Kong to take part in a what is expected to be a huge New Year\u2019s Day march, hours after police fired teargas on pro-democracy protesters marking the start of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The city has been battered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/15\/hong-kong-violence-breaks-out-again-in-shopping-centres\">more than six months of unrest<\/a> with marches attended by millions, as well as confrontations in which police have fired teargas and rubber bullets \u2013 and protesters have responded with petrol bombs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/01\/hong-kong-police-fire-teargas-amid-new-years-eve-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marchers begin to gather after New Year\u2019s Eve violence saw police fire teargas and activists set fire to barricades Thousands have gathered in Hong Kong to take part in a what is expected to be a huge New Year\u2019s Day march, hours after police fired tear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12584,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions\/12584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}