{"id":8347,"date":"2019-09-01T20:32:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T11:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/hong-kong-protests-subway-to-airport-shut-down-as-activists-out-in-force"},"modified":"2019-09-01T20:32:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T11:32:27","slug":"hong-kong-riot-police-pursue-pro-democracy-protesters-from-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8347","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: riot police pursue pro-democracy protesters from airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists take over shopping complex and vandalise rail station after trying to choke city\u2019s international hub<\/p>\n<p>Pro-democracy protesters have taken over a shopping complex in Hong Kong, vandalised a railway station and burned a Chinese flag as hundreds of riot police pursued demonstrators retreating from the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, thousands of protesters descended on the Hong Kong international airport, blocking roads leading to the airport in an attempt to paralyse the regional travel hub. As hundreds of riot police began moving toward protesters, they retreated to a nearby commercial complex in Tung Chung.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/hong-kong-protests-subway-to-airport-shut-down-as-activists-out-in-force\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists take over shopping complex and vandalise rail station after trying to choke city\u2019s international hubPro-democracy protesters have taken over a shopping complex in Hong Kong, vandalised a railway station and burned a Chinese flag as hundreds o&#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":[41,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/8347","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=8347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}