HONG KONG (SE): Anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong reached a new peak as what should have been only a three-day sit-in protest at the arrivals hall of Hong Kong International Airport, ending on August 11, grew to a point where the Airport Authority was forced to shut down operations on the afternoons of August 12 and 13 bringing one of the busiest airports in the world to a standstill. 
 
Protesters already at the airport were joined by thousands more on August 12 in reaction to events of the previous evening in which heightened tensions saw police firing off tear gas inside the Kwai Fong MTR station and charging at protesters and others on escalator at Tai Koo Shing station. In Tsim Sha Tsui, the eye of one young woman—apparently a medic—was...