Hong Kong police fend off airport protest
There were some cat-and-mouse standoffs between protesters and police in Tung Chung as night fell on Saturday
07 September 2019 - 14:02
Hong Kong police checked people travelling to the airport for passports and air tickets on Saturday, preventing protesters gathering for another “stress test” of road and rail links in the Chinese-ruled city.
The increased scrutiny was aimed at avoiding the chaos of last weekend, when protesters blocked airport approach roads, threw debris on to train tracks and trashed the MTR subway station in the nearby new town of Tung Chung...
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