{"id":7736,"date":"2019-08-25T19:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T10:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/25\/hong-kong-protests-fears-of-clashes-with-triad-gangsters-loom-in-latest-march"},"modified":"2019-08-26T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:19:08","slug":"hong-kong-protests-police-fire-teargas-at-demonstrators-in-triad-linked-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7736","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: police us water cannon on demonstrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands had braved rain to stage peaceful march in triad-linked district<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have fired teargas and for the first time used a water cannon to disperse protesters as a weekend of violent clashes dashed hopes of a return to peace after a week of relative calm.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people had earlier braved rain on Sunday to stage a peaceful, police-sanctioned march in Tsuen Wan, an area of the city noted for its links with triad gangsters, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/24\/hong-kong-fresh-rallies-as-protesters-target-airport-transport\">clashes on Saturday<\/a> when police fired rounds of teargas, rubber bullets, pepper balls and sponge rounds at protesters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/25\/hong-kong-protests-fears-of-clashes-with-triad-gangsters-loom-in-latest-march\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands had braved rain to stage peaceful march in triad-linked districtHong Kong police have fired teargas and for the first time used a water cannon to disperse protesters as a weekend of violent clashes dashed hopes of a return to peac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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-7736","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\/7736","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7760,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions\/7760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}