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Does that means the Occupies has lost ?
Hong Kong protests: Civil servants at work as numbers dwindle
Tens of thousands of people have been on the streets in the past week, but only about 100 protesters remained outside government offices at the Admiralty protest site in the Central district on Monday morning, and just ten people were sitting outside the chief executive's office, according to the South China Morning Post.
About 200 remain in Mong Kok, north of the harbour, despite earlier calls by organisers for protesters to withdraw from that site, following clashes at the weekend with people opposed to the demonstrations.
Overnight, some protesters in Central dismantled barricades and cleared roads so government officials could get in to work.
BBC News - Hong Kong protests: Civil servants at work as numbers dwindle
While relieved that they had not been cleared away by police ahead of the government's Monday deadline to abandon the protest sites, tiredness was beginning to show for the few hundred who remained.
"It's good that nothing (no police action) happened but... I hoped that something would happen so we could end this thing quickly," said 18-year-old Otto Ng Chun-lung, a pro-democracy protester and sociology student.
"This is my opinion -- because everyone is just exhausted and we can't go long, long, long time."
That pessimism makes the short-term pain more difficult to bear for business owners, many of whom point out that students can simply return to class when the demonstrations end.
Occupy protests have always been controversial in the city, with opinion often starkly divided along age and class lines: Protesters have overwhelmingly been young, many of them students from prestigious Hong Kong universities, while Hong Kong’s older and poorer populations tend to oppose such actions at much higher rates.
As night fell over Hong Kong on Sunday, demonstrators faced difficult decisions about how best to turn up the pressure on the government without alienating more local residents.
"It's good that nothing (no police action) happened but... I hoped that something would happen so we could end this thing quickly," said 18-year-old Otto Ng Chun-lung, a pro-democracy protester and sociology student.
HK retailers lost about $100m a day. other sectors such as tourism and banking were hard hit. the stock market lost billions.How much money has been lost for Hong Kong as of Monday? How much more money will be lost by next Saturday?
Xi isn't gonna move an inch, demanding Beijing to make concession (what a joke). It's like a peasant demanding the Emperor to come to terms with commoners. I don't recall something like that has ever happened in other parts of the world.
Vietcongs should worry more about the 9 dash line first
By that argument, the preventative medicine discipline should be abolished, so should nutritionists and assorted therapists, after all, none of these specialists are ever perfect physical specimens, right ?For one, our so called democracy is full of holes and deficiencies. Before we tell others to be become democratic, we first have to reform our system dramatically. Right now we are on our way to a new form of feudalism, not by bloodlines, but by large corporations.
peasant demanding the Emperor to come to terms with commoners would be just and fine, but in most case some people would twist the idea and simply claim to represent the "peasant" to make demands which would ruin the lives of the most other than their own.
like in this case
I certainly dont want to be one of those small shopowners around the districts in Hongkong, a few days off track could mean life or death, certain "demonstration" with road blocking means you are dead for sure. Do all the begging or kneeling down in front of the public or whatever, those "protesters" wont care about your suffering because of them, in the end you even get blamed for harrasment. Seriously, those ****ing kids are heartless. They dont have to work because of their parents, those onlookers who joined day in and out are not hangging by the thread like local workers around the districts, wherether they get their message through to the government or not, the local workers are gonna pay the heavy price for something their havent asked for.