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It was one of the biggest political disturbances ever to hit the city, with the eyes of the world suddenly fixed on Hong Kong\u2019s political future.<br \/>\nFor 81 days, the streets were clogged with banner-bearing and slogan-shouting&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/companies\/article\/2132448\/thanks-street-rallies-birkin-bags-purveyor-got-prime-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\">Thanks to street rallies, the Birkin bag\u2019s purveyor got prime Hong Kong real estate for a bargain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; During the Occupy Central movement in October 2014, the streets of Hong Kong\u2019s central business&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-kCo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":93161,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-retains-worlds-top-luxury-prime-housing-market-tag-for-second-year-on-chinese-demand\/","url_meta":{"origin":79260,"position":0},"title":"Hong Kong retains world\u2019s top luxury prime housing market tag for second year on Chinese demand","date":"June 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong\u2019s stratospheric luxury property market might be overtaken by other global hotspots such as Los Angeles this year in terms of total sales value, according to Christie\u2019s International Real Estate. \u201cEvery year Hong Kong sets the world record for luxury sales [by transaction value], but that may not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":87901,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/can-hong-kongs-central-harbourfront-be-more-than-prime-real-estate\/","url_meta":{"origin":79260,"position":1},"title":"Can Hong Kong\u2019s Central harbourfront be more than prime real estate?","date":"May 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Kacey Wong was sitting on a bench along the Central harbourfront watching a TV crew turn a sculpture into the set of a chat show. 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