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Strife-torn Hong Kong drops of Formula E calendar

Strife-torn Hong Kong has been dropped from the 2019-20 Formula E season calendar as the city is battered by four months of violent pro-democracy protests that show no sign of abating. Organisers released next season's calendar late Friday with the semi-autonomous city noticeably absent for the first time since 2016. The release made no mention of why Hong Kong had been dropped. But the South China Morning Post said organisers feared they could not risk putting on the event given the major protests now coursing through the city. 'The recent social unrest put a big question mark on the possibility of starting the event in March,' Edward Yu, governor of the Hong Kong Automobile Association,...
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