BEIJING: The Chinese flag was flown at half-mast at Tiananmen Square on Monday (Jul 29) in honour of late former premier Li Peng, a hardliner in ...
BEIJING: The Chinese flag was flown at half-mast at Tiananmen Square on Monday in honour of late former premier Li Peng, a hardliner in the crackdown on protesters who occupied the Beijing landmark in 1989.
At Tiananmen on Monday, soldiers at the daily flag-raising ceremony raised the red banner to half-mast as hundreds of tourists looked on under rainy skies in the capital.The Chinese national flag was also flown at half mast in Hong Kong, where large gatherings are held every year in memory of the victims of the 1989 crackdown.The former British colony has been rocked for two months by increasingly violent protests that have directly challenged Beijing?s authority over the global financial hub.
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