Travel to Hong Kong still safe – Locsin


BY BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO
OCTOBER 07, 2019
IT is still safe to travel to Hong Kong despite the continuing protests there, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.
He gave the assurances as some Filipinos voiced fears on visiting the former British colony.
“The demonstrations are scheduled and the locations are published ahead,” Locsin said on Twitter.
According to reports received and gathered by the Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong, protests will be held on October 9 at a venue yet to be announced, October 10 at Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station, October 12 at the New Town Plaza Shatin, October 13 at Victoria Park and Edinburgh Place, October 14 at Edinburgh Place and Charter Garden, October 16 in time for the resumption of the Legislative Council, October 20 at Riverpark Tai Wai to Shatin, October 21 at the Yuen Long Mass Transit Railway (MTR) Station, October 26 at Tamar Park Admiralty, and October 31 at Prince Edwin MTR Station.
“We expect demonstrations to continue throughout the month,” the consulate said in its advisory over the weekend.
“We urge all our kababayan (countrymen) to not join the demonstrations, stay away from the locations where demonstrations are taking place, and avoid wearing black- or white-colored upper garments,” it added.
Protesters again took to the streets on Sunday to defy a ban on face masks.
Large crowds marched through torrential rain in unsanctioned rallies on both sides of Victoria Harbor Sunday afternoon.
Clashes erupted as police fired tear gas at protesters blocking roads and building barricades in at least three different locations.
Protesters have staged unsanctioned flash mob rallies across the strife-torn city in recent days — some vandalizing subway stations and shops — after Hong Kong’s leader outlawed face coverings at protests, invoking colonial-era emergency powers not used for half a century.

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