{"id":9780,"date":"2019-10-05T18:35:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/05\/hong-kong-suspends-metro-system-and-closes-banks-after-violent-protests"},"modified":"2019-10-06T13:50:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T04:50:53","slug":"hong-kong-suspends-metro-system-and-closes-banks-after-violent-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9780","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong suspends metro system and closes banks after violent protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam\u2019s ban on face masks provokes fury ahead of march on Sunday, although parts of the subway system were reopened<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s metro system was suspended and many of its banks and shopping malls closed after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/04\/hong-kong-leader-threatens-harsher-crackdown-under-emergency-law\">government decision to invoke sweeping colonial-era powers<\/a> sparked violent protests across the city.<\/p>\n<p>The chief executive, Carrie Lam, provoked a wave of fear and fury on Friday with a ban on face masks at any public gathering, brought in under the emergency regulations ordinance, which had not been used for more than half a century.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/05\/hong-kong-suspends-metro-system-and-closes-banks-after-violent-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam\u2019s ban on face masks provokes fury ahead of march on Sunday, although parts of the subway system were reopenedHong Kong\u2019s metro system was suspended and many of its banks and shopping malls closed after a government decision to invoke sweepin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"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":[41,555,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","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\/9780","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9803,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780\/revisions\/9803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}