Hong Kong

Students and teachers attend a rally during the class boycott at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Monday. Thousands of students have braved sweltering heat to demand greater democracy for the territory.

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Hong Kong Students Begin Boycott To Call For Democracy

1:05pm September 22, 2014

by Scott Neuman

The activists plan to stay out of university classrooms this week to protest Beijing's plan to screen candidates for the territory's next chief executive.