HK protests subside as exhaustion sets in

HONG KONG: Exhausted Hong Kong demonstrators were debating the next step in their pro-democracy campaign on Monday as their numbers dwindled and the city returned to work after a chaotic week of mass protests.

The government had been forced to shut its headquarters on Friday because the ranks of protesters blocking the access roads, leaving 3,000 civil servants at home. On Monday a knot of protesters kept the entrance to the complex partially blocked with barricades, but opened a narrow section to allow workers to enter.