Hong Kong re-numbers lamp posts with inadvertent reference to date of Tiananmen crackdown

[HKFP] - 11/14/2024

The Hong Kong government has given new identification numbers to lamp posts that inadvertently referenced the date of the Tiananmen crackdown, with the numbers “8964” and “6489” erased in favour of new codes. When HKFP visited a lamp post on Po Shun Road in Tseung Kwan O at around 2.40pm on (…)



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