HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong pro-democracy activists staged a cat-and-mouse game with riot police on Sunday, mounting protests in several shopping malls and chanting slogans such as "Free Hong Kong" until police arrived and then dispersing among weekend shoppers. Petrol bombs were thrown inside a Hong Kong metro rail station on Saturday but no one was injured, the government said. One of the protesters told Reuters he hoped it would inspire Hong Kong people to keep fighting. All problems can be resolved with Hong Kong people's persistence and hard work to reach our aims," he said. Hong Kong is facing its first recession in a decade due to the protests, with tourism and retail hardest hit.

Source: The Star October 13, 2019 02:48 UTC