Mainland students flee Hong Kong campus standoff with China help

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HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - Mainland Chinese students studying in Hong Kong are fleeing across the border to Shenzhen as protesters wage an ongoing battle with police that's turned the grounds of one top university into a smoking battlefield.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

HONG KONG - Mainland Chinese students studying in Hong Kong are fleeing across the border to Shenzhen as protesters wage an ongoing battle with police that's turned the grounds of one top university into a smoking battlefield.

The strife ripping through Hong Kong, which spilled into open violence this week, has alarmed the city's mainland-born residents, who feel targeted by the anti-Beijing movement. "I didn't want to leave at the beginning. I wanted to go to classes today," said the 19-year-old."But the atmosphere deteriorated quickly, and I suddenly felt the urge to leave," he said.

By Mr Lin's estimation, only about a hundred mainland undergraduates still remain on the CUHK campus. Students from City University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have also fled, he said.

 

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