Thousands in Hong Kong Likely to Participate in Annual Protest March

Thousands of people will take to the streets in Hong Kong Friday for an annual protest march that has been a closely watched barometer of how the city’s seven million people feel about Beijing and their local government. Many Hong Kong residents are unhappy both with the territory’s chief executive, CY Leung, and with the central government in Beijing, to which he is perceived as beholden. The size of the march will be seen as a marker of public sentiment. The most recent public opinion...

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