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Emboldened Hong Kong Protesters Call For Free Elections
By KEITH BRADSHER


HONG KONG, July 9 — Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered this evening under a waxing moon to stand before this city's legislature building and call for free elections and the resignation of Hong Kong's leader.

Tonight's crowd was sizable, filling a downtown avenue and two urban parks. But it did not come anywhere close to matching the estimated 500,000 people who marched here on July 1, mainly to protest a stringent internal security bill that the government was trying to push through the Legislative Council.

The government toned down that bill on Saturday and then postponed a vote on it early Monday, and has not set a new schedule for its consideration.

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[LauraK]

1. I have read the Hong Cong is losing out to Shanghai....

as a trading center. The growing economy of eastern China makes Shanghai more central as a trading port.