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    1. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 5h5 hours ago
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      #LIVE: Hong Kong protests - tense stand-off between radicals and police continues at university. Follow our live coverage https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtests

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    2. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 5h5 hours ago
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      #LIVE: A PolyU assistant professor says he has been in contact with some students who remain and understands some are having emotional breakdowns. “The younger ones are breaking down while the more radical ones, who tried to leave but failed, are in panic”https://sc.mp/2t9yo 

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    3. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 5h5 hours ago
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      #LIVE: Earlier in Tsim Sha Tsui, about 100 people were subdued and arrested by police. An officer said they were arrested for fleeing from Polytechnic University, blocking roads, and unlawful assembly https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/JmENMfJeQq

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    4. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 5h5 hours ago
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      #LIVE: Democratic Party lawmaker Ted Hui, who has stayed on campus since Sunday, says most students and radicals are already very tired after previous confrontations with police, and their supplies are running low https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtests

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    5. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 5h5 hours ago
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      #LIVE: A group of hard-core protesters have set barricades at the junction of Nathan Road and Jordan Road. Some throw bricks at vehicles which do not stop at the roadblocks. Some start to prepare projectiles, shielding their activities with umbrellas https://sc.mp/2t9yo pic.twitter.com/cpY7ONf2W0

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    6. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 5h5 hours ago
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      #LIVE: Vandals caused carnage at a Starbucks in Jordan Road overnight. They smashed glass and sales equipment https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/Ilm66w46U3

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    7. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 5h5 hours ago
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      #LIVE: An 84-year-old is among the 38 injured in relation to the disturbances since the start of Sunday. Five are in serious condition https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtests

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      SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 4h4 hours ago
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      #LIVE: Chief Executive Carrie Lam arrives at Kwong Wah Hospital to pay a visit to the police officer shot with an arrow on Sunday at the conflict outside Polytechnic University https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/RJwNaeEuN1

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        2. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 4h4 hours ago
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          #LIVE: Riot police on the flyover West Kowloon Corridor fire tear gas into a crowd of protesters walking on the west-bound lane towards the them. Petrol bombs are seen thrown towards police https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtests

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        3. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 4h4 hours ago
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          #LIVE: Nathan Road near the Kowloon Mosque in Tsim Sha Tsui is blocked with bamboo scaffolding, as is the junction towards Haiphong Road. A courier, surnamed Wong, says he made a delivery in the area at around 11am and has been stuck on the road https://sc.mp/2t9yo pic.twitter.com/fCWmnn3xmt

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        4. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 3h3 hours ago
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          #LIVE: Protesters retreat down Nathan Road between Jordan and Yau Ma Tei after police fire tear gas in Jordan. Some suggest attacking government offices nearby, while others stay to build barricades outside Eaton Hotel https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/ivurC9rpeN

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        5. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 3h3 hours ago
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          SCMP News Retweeted SCMP Hong Kong

          #LIVE: Police advance along Gascoigne Road, firing rounds of tear gas. The radical protesters are 100 metres away and respond with at least one petrol bombhttps://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1196281123363377153 …

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          A stand-off erupts between protesters and police near Diocesan Girls School in Jordan. Protesters had earlier retreated slightly after rounds of tear gas were fired Video: SCMP/Lilian Cheng pic.twitter.com/QuER7JfnWv
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        6. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 3h3 hours ago
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          #LIVE: While Hong Kong police urge everyone on the Polytechnic University campus to drop their weapons and leave, a police source says those people would still be arrested. “We may record that they leave peacefully for future court reference"https://sc.mp/2t9yo 

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        7. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 3h3 hours ago
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          #LIVE: Lunchtime protests return to Central as people dressed in black use traffic cones to block the junction of Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road Central. After blocking the road, dozens stand chanting, ”Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” https://sc.mp/2t9yo pic.twitter.com/zXjPnSF1Pl

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        8. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 2h2 hours ago
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          #LIVE: Another 10 rounds of tear gas are fired at protesters who try to advance on a police cordon along Gascoigne Road in Yau Ma Tei. Clouds of smoke mask the scene, while protesters have also reached Chatham Road South in Tsim Sha Tsui https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/EQcTq235p3

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        9. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 2h2 hours ago
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          #LIVE: Police fire tear gas at a group of radical protesters when they attempt to flee the Polytechnic University campus along Hong Chong Road. At least two are arrested https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/S521SjcK4D

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        10. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 2h2 hours ago
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          SCMP News Retweeted SCMP Hong Kong

          #LIVE: In Connaught Place, police and protesters are in a tense stand-off. Some have thrown projectiles at police and shout abusehttps://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1196306101664268288 …

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          In Central, riot police and protesters have been in a stand-off for 20 minutes on Connaught Place Video: SCMP/Karen Zhang pic.twitter.com/9QRvls53jx
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        11. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 1h1 hour ago
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          #LIVE: The police water cannon vehicle is in Cheong Wan Road, near the main entrance of PolyU. It releases a jet of clear liquid into the campus, where radicals have been holed up since Sunday https://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtests

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        12. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 1h1 hour ago
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          #LIVE: More than a dozen taxis and private cars have stopped in the middle Chatham Road South. One driver believes the motorists are trying to block the road to prevent more police from getting to the Polytechnic University campus http://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/BW1f8wqcoo

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        13. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 59m59 minutes ago
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          SCMP News Retweeted SCMP Hong Kong

          #LIVE: Dr Pierre Chan, the lawmaker representing the medical sector, says all voluntary paramedics who provided medical assistance to protesters inside Polytechnic University have been arrested http://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtestshttps://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1196316206044602368 …

          SCMP News added,

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          An ambulance has arrived outside PolyU and is believed to be there to treat the injured protesters. But the police officers have waited for more than four minutes before letting it in Video: SCMP/Alvin Lum pic.twitter.com/Cu6wu1oY4Z
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        14. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 58m58 minutes ago
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          #LIVE: Police have taken back control of Des Voeux Road Central near the junction with Pedder Street. Demonstrators move back from the road and onto the pavements. Most of them have now left http://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/1NLGl6eDOZ

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        15. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 26m26 minutes ago
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          #LIVE: Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station is closed after petrol bombs are thrown into it http://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtests

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        16. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 17m17 minutes ago
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          #LIVE: Protesters in Tsim Sha Tsui have returned to Chatham Road South yet again, setting up roadblocks in front of a police cordon. Earlier, tear gas and sponge grenades were fired to disperse them http://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtests

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        17. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews 16m16 minutes ago
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          #LIVE: Kowloon Union Church in Jordan has become a place of refuge for tired protesters and volunteer medics. Two nurses help to escort an injured person into the church http://sc.mp/2t9yo  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/U3IDDkp5ZX

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