HONG KONG: Dozens of police removed barricades from a second Hong Kong protest site on Tuesday, a day after a similar attempt at the city's main occupied area largely backfired as demonstrators rebuilt and reinforced their defences.

Around 150 police officers took away metal barricades in the bustling Causeway Bay shopping district shortly before dawn, according to an Agence France-Presse journalist at the scene.

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