Foreign groups behind Hong Kong violence: former British MP

Foreign funding and foreign orientation are likely behind the violent protests that have sabotaged Hong Kong for months, said a former member of British Parliament. 

George Galloway, also a news anchor and host for commentary programs in several TV stations, said during an interview with China Central Television (CCTV) that although western media have distorted facts about the Hong Kong riots with edited video segments, the Hong Kong police force has showed a high level of professionalism and tolerance in the events."If they [the riots] were to happen in Britain, I can assure you they'll be met with much more violence from the police and security forces than the Hong Kong police and security forces. To take one example, it is illegal in Britain to come to a demonstration with a face mask. You will be arrested for it. It's illegal to take a picture or film of the police operating in a conflict, in a demonstration. So in any other country in the world, protesters like the Hong Kong protesters would have been summarily deal with long before now," said Galloway.

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MTR to pay up to HK$10 million for damage repair

A top official of the city's sole rail operator on Sunday said repair cost for the damaged metro stations totaled up to HK$10 million.

Jacob Kam Chak-pui, chief executive officer of MTR Corporation, said at a television talk show that more than 90 metro stations have been vandalized by radical protesters in the past two weeks.

He added that repairing those damaged metro stations has been made more difficult by repeated vandalism targeting the railway system. The acute shortage of spare parts for repair was one of the main problems, Kam added.

Some damaged stations that reopened the next day were limited to providing only minimal services, Kam pointed out. For example, only two of the six ticket machines at a station were operational on one of those stations. Sometimes, parts were removed from another intact station to be used to repair another station that was seriously damaged.

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Radical protesters hurl petrol bombs at HKSAR gov't offices, police start dispersal operations

Radical protesters set fires in Admiralty area, threw petrol bombs at the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government offices and vandalized mass transit railway (MTR) stations Sunday afternoon after an illegal rally again turned violent.

After violence erupted, the Hong Kong police started dispersal operations in the Central and Admiralty areas.

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