Hong Kong Holiday Protests Small as Stricken City Cleans Up
- Banks, supermarkets, train service disrupted most of weekend
- Monday night demonstrations across city see little traction
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A fresh round of Hong Kong protests remained small Monday night as the city cleaned up from a chaotic weekend in which demonstrators battled with police, vandalized shops and paralyzed swaths of the Asian financial hub.
The violence -- erupting after leader Carrie Lam invoked an emergency law for the first time in more than half a century to ban face masks -- dealt another blow to the Hong Kong economy on a three-day weekend normally packed with tourists.