Look at the protests taking place in hong kong. The unrest began as a movement against a law allowing hong kongers to be deported to china. Since june millions of protesters have marched through the streets demanding greater democracy. Set to start in just a moment here. Live coverage on cspan 3. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to todays hearing on hong kongs summer of discontent and u. S. Policy responses. This is the second China Commission hearing this year on the situation in hong kong. During our may hearing, the commission heard compelling testimony from Hong Kong Pro Democracy advocates, including martin lee and nathan law who expressed concerns about the extradition bill that was quickly moving towards becoming law at that time. That legislation would have put anyone in hong kong, including u. S. Citizens, at risk of extradition to Mainland China. A lack of due process and custodial abuse have been welldocumented. Over the last 16 weeks, millions of people from all walk
Ownership, its coming down to just one number. Well tell what you it is and what it means. Lets check in with sara at the nyse. High, sara. Good afternoon. Hard to believe just two more months remaining until 2015 is done. Just about 50 trading days left in the year. Are we setting up for presents under the tree or coal in our stockin stockings . Dominic chu is taking a closer look at that question. Dom . Sara, how many times have we talked about seasonality in the markets over our years together here. But lets take a look at this, everyone talks about the santa claus rally and the seasonably strong Fourth Quarter for stocks. Well, lets take a look. Our data partners at kensho crunched the numbers and for the last two months of any year over the last ten years, so november to december returns, the s p is up on average over 1. 5 . The dow the same, and theyve both been positive in 8 of the last 10 instances. A decentsized gain although some would point out because of the strong gains we
Behind bars. Good afternoon, i m lisa cooney. That deadly overdose at children s hospital has left a baby girl in the hospital, without either of her parents by her side. Wlwt news 5 s andrew setters was there in court, as the father faced a judge. Andrew . Andrew judge Curt Kissinger called this one of the most tragic examples of the heroin epidemic he s ever seen. Wesley landers is being held here on a high bond, after over dosing inside children s hospital. Children s hospital, to uc center. He was found unresponsive, his baby girl police said he was found with a his pocket. He s facing drug and weapons charges and was ordered held today on a . 5 million bond. Prosecutor Robert Schrimpf laid out the accusations against him in court this morning. S hospital. The mother of the child died also from a drug overdose. He had a loaded firearm children that poses a risk to the i believe he s a risk of overdosing again. Andrew landers is being held on 500,000 bond, but he can post s services
The Liberian Senate has unanimously concurred with the House of Representatives in passing an investment incentive bill valued at US$22 million between the Republic of Liberia and Gboni Enterprises Incorporated.
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