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Content: The initiative required the demolition and relocation of the farm village Tsoi Yuen Tsuen. Protestors cited social dislocation, cost, noise pollution, customs and border control complications, and existing rail links as reasons for their opposition. When the Legislative Council started to discuss the government’s funding request for the project, protesters performed a “prostrating walk” around the Legco building, in which participants knelt and touched the ground with their heads every 26 steps to symbolise the length of the rail link. Villagers perform a symbolic walk against the high-speed rail link. The climax came when lawmakers were set to approve funding on January 26, 2010. Thousands of protesters besieged the Legco block for about five hours, with some trying to storm inside while others occupied roads nearby. Funding was passed due to the pro-establishment bloc’s majority in Legco. After violent confrontations the activists were dispersed by the police. Wedding Card Street protests
Another announcement of redevelopment, this time on Lee Tung Street in Wan Chai. The street, also known as “Wedding Card Street”, was famed as a centre for print wedding card invitations.