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Posted On Nov 18 2015
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But that plan, including expanding the Stock Connect scheme to the Shenzhen exchange, stalled Beijing interceded through a range of measures to prevent the plunge and after mainland bourses tumbled 45 percent between August and June.
In future there may be a direct air link between Hong Kong and Angola given the increase in tourist flows and business seen recently, said the Consul General of Angola in Hong Kong.
Outside the stadium, about 300 localism supporters held up “Hong Kong is not China” posters while shouting anti-China and pro-Hong Kong slogans and waving British colonial flags at Sai Yee Street playground.
Hong Kong vs China PR 2015 (live score results below) is now on the field in their World Cup qualifier.
“Because Hong Kong is not part of China, I don’t feel like I am Chinese”.
Hong Kong player Yapp Hung-fai against Chinese player Yu Dabao.
“Hong Kong is not China”, read one message written on six sheets of white paper in the stands, as thousands of other home fans waved red banners and chanted: “We are Hong Kong”.
Hong Kong sentiment towards the mainland has continued to sour amid fears of Beijing’s encroaching political influence on the semi-autonomous territory which returned from British rule in 1997.
The best four runner-up teams will also join the eight top squads to make up the 12 teams in the third and final round of the qualifiers wherein the top four will be given spots in the 2018 World Cup to be held in Russian Federation. But the game tonight has an added frisson, given the political tensions in Hong Kong.
In an unusual move, Hong Kong fans had to show their identity cards to prove they are Hong Kong residents before being allowed to buy tickets – a process that will be repeated tonight before they are allowed in.
More than 18,000 Chinese netizens responded to a poll by the website Sina after the match, in which half of them said they were angry about the result, 27 percent said they were disappointed, and 21 percent said they were calm, Apple Daily reported.
