Support dwindling for Hong Kong protesters

A tracking poll showed 68 percent of Hong Kong people are against the illegal assemblies that halted traffic on thoroughfares, and approval for authorities and police is rising as protesters are losing sympathy with the wider public.

More than 1,160 adults responded to the Hong Kong Research Association's poll on the protests between Tuesday and Thursday, after some barricades at two locations on Hong Kong Island were torn down and before new clashes broke out in Mong Kok.

The majority's disapproval of the occupation campaign had consolidated since the first poll conducted in the first week of October. Sixty-eight percent of respondents opposed the "Occupy Central" protests, while support slipped by 2 percentage points to 27 percent.