HONG KONG - Thousands of people marched through Hong Kong's streets Sunday to demand the right to pick their city's leader and legislature and hoisted yellow umbrellas to form the year 2012 - their target year for full democracy.
The demonstrators chanted "One person one vote, the only way to go" and "Universal suffrage in 2012" as they marched to government headquarters.
"We need to have a good political environment in order to sustain our economic development," said one of the participants, 51-year-old businessman Michael Hui.
The former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997 but was promised a wide degree of autonomy under a "one country, two systems" …
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