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Macau: May Day Protest Turned Violent

Categories: East Asia, Macau (China), Breaking News, Human Rights, Labor, Protest

A peaceful May 1 workers and grassroots protest turned violent as the police blocked the demonstration route. Well-armed Macau policemen fired warning shots into the air, but there were no reports of injuries resulting from the gunfire. Onemanbandwidth has a brief report [1]. The blogger has written a background post about Macau's development in the past few years: dying to win in Macau.