01.40am: Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung’s daughter Leung Chai Yan made some very questionable comments on Facebook earlier today. Seemingly responding to negative comments about a necklace she wears in her profile picture, she wrote: “This is actually a beautiful necklace bought at Lane Crawford (yes – funded by all you HK taxpayers!! So are all my beautiful shoes and dresses and clutches!! Thank you so much!!!!) Actually maybe I shouldn’t say ‘all you’- since most of you here are probably unemployed hence have all this time obsessed with bombarding me with messages.”
01.20am: Brief but heavy showers have forced many protesters off the street and into cover along Hennessy Road, as the Hong Kong Observatory issues a thunderstorm warning until 2.15am. As the rain as started, a teary first-time protestor Lee Yuen-lam, 20, took to the microphone: “I’m crying because I’ve been so moved to tears to see large numbers of people take to the streets. I used to be apolitical, but the protests have made me think again.”
01.15am Mong Kok: On Canton Road, protesters started to pack and move to the pavement after sounds of thunder were heard. There was no sign that the occupation would end here as a young man called for more protesters to help. “If you can help to maintain order during the night please come to the resources centre, we need more helpers,” he said through a loud hailer.
