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It’s Tuesday, October 14, 2014, and this is The Asia Brief.
A new dawn breaks in Hong Kong, bringing with it more questions as to what will ultimately resolve a tense situation that every day seems to bring about new twists and turns. After yesterday violent confrontations between Occupy Central members and anti-protesters, questions have emerged as who is organizing them. Reports are also surfacing that Beijing might have been responsible for outing CY Leung’s business deal and is moving with trying to wrap up the protests by next Monday.
Vongfong has been downgraded to a tropical storm and is expected to reach Tokyo today. Thus far is has resulted in the injury of at least 50 and forced the evacuations of 450,000. Flights and trains continue to be disrupted.
In a surprising bit of news from the largely conservative South Korea, Seoul’s mayor, Park Won-soon, says he hops his country will be the first in Asia to recognize same-sex marriages.
Chinese courts have handed down sentences from July events in Elixku and Huangdi. Twelve have received death sentences, while many more were given additional prison terms.
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