Hong Kong horse races, fireworks called off amid protest threat

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Hong Kong's Jockey Club canceled all races planned for Wednesday after pro-...

HONG KONG - Hong Kong’s Jockey Club canceled all races planned for Wednesday after pro-democracy protesters said they would target the Happy Valley racecourse where a horse part-owned by a pro-China lawmaker was due to run.

A horse called Hong Kong Bet that had been due to run in the evening program is part-owned by lawmaker Junius Ho, who has taken a firm line on the protesters, calling them “black-shirted thugs”.“A lot of people such a decision being taken and are worried about the negative impact that may bring to Hong Kong racing and Hong Kong as an international city as well as a leader in the horse-racing world,” he said in a statement. “I fully endorse those worries.

Police fired water cannon and volleys of tear gas on Sunday to disperse protesters, many of them masked and wearing black, who threw petrol bombs and set fires in Causeway Bay and the nearby Central district. The spark for the latest protests in June was planned legislation, now withdrawn, that would have allowed people accused of breaking Chinese laws to be sent to the mainland for trial. But they have since broadened into calls for universal suffrage.Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 under a “one country, two systems” formula that ensures freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland, including right of assembly and an independent judiciary.

 

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human right been badly damage by protestors

Good, that putrid scumbag Junius Ho has caused enough problems in Hong Kong and more he is hurt financially the better.

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