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Sick of your selfie self yet? Likely not. The Museum (and I use the term loosely) of Selfies opened last year in Hollywood as a place for anyone to Insta indulge. Now a second site will open in the Miracle Mile Shops on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 25.

In Las Vegas, some of the photo ops will be similar to those in L.A. Expect to dive into the sea of yellow balls in the Emoji Pool; pose with the Selfie Throne made of selfie sticks; and share the Bathroom Selfie, where someone else is reflected in the mirror.

Tickets cost $23 for adults and $17 for children. It will be open 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, and until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

Prefer more authentic places to snap a shot? The city of Las Vegas has compiled its own list of cool selfie sites that are outdoors — and free.

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▶ “Radial Symmetry” by Luis Varela-Rico features two richly textured “stainless steel radial shapes inspired by Southern Paiute basket weaving,” the city’s website says. You can get as close as you like, and play with light at different times of day as it reflects off the metal. It’s at Main and Commerce streets near the Arts District.

▶ The Fremont Street Crosswalk at Las Vegas Boulevard and Fremont Street provides a glimpse of vintage Vegas, with the neon martini glass and the Fremont East sign. It’s a diagonal crosswalk, so you can snap your selfie in the middle of the street under the sign’s arch.

▶ Wear stripes to snap “Pipe Dream,” a sculpture of metal pipes in all colors at Symphony Park. Tim Bavington created the piece as a physical representation of Aaron Copland’s 1942 musical composition “Fanfare for the Common Man,” the city’s website says.

Check out the list of other Insta sites recommended by the city.


Twitter Inc. said it used phone numbers and email addresses that some users uploaded for security reasons to target them with ads.

The company said this was “an error” and that the information should not have been used for ad targeting. “We’re very sorry this happened,” Twitter wrote Tuesday in a blog post. It didn’t say how many users may have seen ads because of this activity.

Twitter offers an ad product called “tailored audiences,” which lets advertisers upload a contact list of customers that the company then matches to existing users on its social network through phone numbers or emails. Twitter said it accidentally matched some of these customer lists with similar information that users shared with the company for security reasons, such as two-factor account authentication.

Last year, Facebook Inc. was also found to be using personal information uploaded for security purposes to target people with ads. The Federal Trade Commission ordered the social media giant to stop the practice in July as part of a $5 billion privacy settlement.


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A U.S. move to blacklist four of China’s leading artificial intelligence start-ups has thrown a blockbuster Hong Kong listing into doubt and left billions of dollars of foreign investment caught in the cross fire.

On Monday, the U.S. Commerce Department put eight companies on its “entity list,” accusing three of China’s leading facial recognition companies, SenseTime, Megvii and Yitu, as well as the voice recognition company iFlytek, of aiding the “repression, mass arbitrary detention and high-technology surveillance” in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.

Companies on the entity list, which include the Chinese telecom supplier Huawei, are not allowed to buy products from U.S. companies.

The move shocked Megvii, which has already filed its IPO prospectus, and SenseTime, which is considering a public listing. “We are all taken aback,” said one of Megvii’s bankers. “No change to plans now but we will have to see what happens over coming days.”

In June, Human Rights Watch withdrew an allegation that a smartphone app used to track ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang used technology from Megvii, which gave the company confidence that it had resolved questions over its alleged activities in the region. Megvii said the U.S. decision was made “without any factual basis” and that it made no revenues at all from projects in Xinjiang in the first half of 2019, and that the region accounted for only 1% of its sales in 2018.

Meanwhile, a person close to SenseTime said the company had been surprised at the blacklisting after a “positive” meeting with two U.S. senators in Beijing last month. SenseTime said it was “deeply disappointed” and that it was “actively developing AI code of ethics.”

The company had recently sold its majority stake in a police surveillance company in Xinjiang following an international outcry.

Both companies have foreign investors, with Macquarie and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority taking part in Megvii’s last fund-raise and SoftBank, Fidelity, Qualcommm, Silver Lake and Temasek all backing SenseTime. Macquarie, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Softbank, Silver Lake and Fidelity all declined to comment.

IFlytek, the voice AI company, said the decision would have little impact on its business. “We have planned for this situation,” said a spokesperson. The company’s fund manager, who was seeking to raise about $300 million for iFlytek to invest in start-ups, said earlier this year that the U.S. was imposing “an iron curtain on technology from China.”

Yitu declined to comment on the decision.

In 2016, iFlytek won a bid to supply police in southern Xinjiang’s Kashgar city with 25 sets of voice pattern collecting equipment, as part of a government initiative to gather biometric data including DNA, fingerprints and “three-dimensional portraits” from residents, according to government procurement documents.

Collectively the four companies are the brightest prospects in China’s burgeoning AI sector, and they have all won a swath of contracts from Chinese companies and cities.

Megvii and SenseTime are among the world’s most valuable AI start-ups, and are unusual in each claiming to have developed a “full stack” of AI software themselves — right down to the deep learning frameworks underpinning their applications. That means they do not rely on other companies’ popular frameworks, such as Google’s Tensorflow or Facebook’s PyTorch.

Security camera companies Hikvision and Dahua were also put on the list, and Dahua said it expressed its “strong protest to such a decision, which lacks factual basis.”

Both Dahua and Hikvision suspended the trading of their stocks on the Shenzhen exchange, saying trading would resume Thursday at the latest. IFlytek’s shares fell 2.67% from the previous day’s close in Shenzhen.

All of the sanctioned companies run and train their AI algorithms on computers which are likely to use chips made by Intel as well as Nvidia, which makes AI-specialized graphics processing unit (GPU) chips.

But they can continue to use existing computers to run their algorithms, eventually moving away from U.S. suppliers, according to investment bank Jefferies.

The impact to Hikvision would probably be “modest” said Ruiyi Xu, a research associate for Bernstein, adding that Hikvision was among the best prepared of the eight companies to be added to the entity list.

Bernstein estimated that even after Hikvision’s key components inventory runs up, the revenue impact would only be about 10%, and the profit impact even less.

“We think this is manageable although short term there will be some weighing on investor sentiment,” Xu said. “Hikvision won’t have cross-selling problems because it can rely on partners such as Lenovo and other server makers in China.”

Wu said judging from the stock reaction of U.S. chipmakers Nvidia and Intel, investors were not expecting a significant hit. Shares in U.S. chipmaker Ambarella, a key Hikvision supplier, plunged as much as 12% after news of the blacklisting.

Additional reporting by Christian Shepherd and Nian Liu in Beijing

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Uber's stock market woes are bad news for PayPal

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PayPal Holdings Inc. will report a $228-million loss on investments before taxes in the third quarter, driven in large part by a bad bet on Uber Technologies Inc. just before it went public.

The San Jose-based payments company said the investment in Uber, for $500 million at the initial public offering price, had declined 34%. Another investment, in Latin American online retailer MercadoLibre Inc., had declined 10%, PayPal said.

PayPal’s stake in the world’s largest ride-hailing business was tied to what the companies described as a closer collaboration on payments technology. Uber is the most prominent app to use PayPal’s nascent Pay With Venmo feature. But Uber’s stock has underperformed because of a combination of slowing growth and accelerated losses.

In an email, a PayPal spokeswoman cited the “inherent difficulty” in predicting the stock market for the mismatch between its previous forecast and reality. The company will report financial results on Oct. 23.


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A weakness in pot stocks has scuttled MedMen Enterprises Inc.’s planned acquisition of PharmaCann less than a month after it received antitrust approval.

The Los Angeles-based cannabis company said Tuesday that it will terminate the all-share deal, which was valued at $682 million when it was announced last October and MedMen was trading at about $4.45 a share. Cannabis shares have tumbled since then, with the Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences Index ETF down about 50% and MedMen’s stock down 65% to $1.52.

“The cannabis sector has evolved tremendously since we first announced the PharmaCann transaction and based on the current macro environment and future opportunities that exist for our business, we believe it is now in the best interest of our shareholders to deepen, rather than widen, our company’s reach,” MedMen Chief Executive Officer Adam Bierman said in a statement.

MedMen shares fell as much as 9.6% in early trading Tuesday.

The move comes as a surprise, as MedMen said last month that it had received antitrust approval for the deal after a waiting period expired. It was one of the first of several U.S. cannabis mergers that were under Department of Justice review to get the green light, and MedMen said then it expected the acquisition to close by the end of 2019.

As part of the termination, PharmaCann will transfer cannabis licenses and related assets in Illinois and Virginia to MedMen for no additional consideration other than the forgiveness of $21 million of debt, the companies said.

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The recent underperformance of cannabis stocks has “made it increasingly more critical to allocate capital efficiently” and some of PharmaCann’s assets required significant expenditures, MedMen said Tuesday. It added that it has decided to increasingly focus on the California market, where it plans to have 30 stores open by the end of 2020.


'Pretty Woman' goes to a polo match

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On a sunny Saturday afternoon this past weekend, Julia Roberts was dressed in polka dots, waiting for a polo match to begin. It may sound like a scene straight out of the 1990 film “Pretty Woman,” but nearly 30 years after she donned that iconic brown-and-white polka dot dress for her star-making role, Roberts was wearing a modern, navy Michael Kors ensemble. (The actress forwent the white gloves, hat, and heels in favor of a white belt and sensible flats.)

“I’ve never been up here. It’s so beautiful,” Roberts said, surveying a perfectly manicured field at Will Rogers State Historic Park in Pacific Palisades, one of the last remaining polo fields in Los Angeles. The Oscar winner (for 2000’s “Erin Brockovich”) was on hand for Veuve Clicquot’s annual Polo Classic, which pulled out all the stops to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Yellow umbrellas were scattered throughout the general admission area while a massive white tent was erected for Southern California tastemakers and Hollywood’s elite, including Kirsten Dunst, Regina Hall, Christina Hendricks and “This is Us” costars Mandy Moore and Justin Hartley.

“This is part of our community,” Roberts said, referencing the landmark’s rich past, which includes Walt Disney, Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable playing polo at the field in the 1920s. “That’s the thing about Los Angeles,” she said, noting its “truly deep history that you’ll find, especially as it relates to my business.”

Because Roberts’ iconic “Pretty Woman” polo scene was actually shot at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank, Roberts hadn’t seen these greens before and looked forward to letting loose. “I thought it would be fun,” she said. “I haven’t seen any polo playing since I was at work wearing polka dots.” She laughed. “A typical Saturday, I am sitting at a soccer match, where all the rest of my family is right now.”

The Polo Classic is a family affair for many guests, including Argentine polo player Nacho Figueras who often plays alongside his wife, Delfina Blaquier. The two have been involved with the event since its inception in 2010.

“Ten years ago, we dreamed about bringing the glamour of polo back to Hollywood and to Los Angeles,” said Figueras. “I was having drinks at the Polo Lounge and I saw a picture of two guys playing polo behind the bar and I said, ‘Who’s that?’ The photograph was of Will Rogers and Darryl F. Zanuck.”

The affair has grown considerably, from approximately 2,000 Angelenos in 2010 to more than 7,500 this year. It’s also evolved on the polo field, with the teams being evenly matched with two women and two men competing. While Blaquier attended for years, she didn’t begin playing opposite her husband until 2015. “We felt like it was time for more women to get out there on the polo field,” she said. “It’s a great opportunity to show that we can do it as well and inspire girls.”

The sporting event has also become a major moment on the fashion calendar. This year, outfits ran the gamut from bright floral sundresses (Busy Philipps, Lea Michele) to equestrian-inspired plaid suits (Kaley Cuoco in Missoni). No surprise, many guests — like Hartley’s wife, Chrishell Stause, and influencer Louise Roe — paid homage to Roberts in polka-dot ensembles.

“Twinsies!” Roberts said upon spotting another guest in a similar look. She was surprised to learn of her sartorial impact. “It would never have occurred to me, honestly,” she said. “Meeting Nacho was such a thrill. He said, ‘Thank you for what you’ve done for the sport of polo.’ I was just gobsmacked when he said it.” She said she chose her “comfortable” look in order “to have a sense of humor and lean into my polka dots.”

Will Rogers’ great-granddaughter Jennifer Rogers-Etcheverry said she appreciates that Veuve Clicquot’s involvement has helped breathe new life into the public park. “It’s great because it continues his legacy,” she said, noting that a portion of the event’s proceeds help maintain the polo field and the upkeep of the park’s hiking trails.

Florence McKoy and Kevin Humphrey of Carson purchased general admission tickets for $90 each after learning about the event on Instagram two years ago. “I was going to come last year but I had to sell my tickets because I had to work; so it’s our first year,” said McKoy, clutching a Champagne goblet while standing atop a grassy hill. “We definitely plan on coming next year, but I want to let everybody know — wear flats, not heels.”


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As a pantry staple, you can’t beat dried beans. They’re cheap, store well for a long time, and are filling and hearty. But the thing is, I just don’t have the patience for them. I often get the hankering for beans as soon as I’m hungry, and well, there’s no time for that critical step of soaking them overnight.

That’s why I often used canned beans for my weeknight cooking. But when fresh beans are in season in late summer and early autumn, I relish the time-intensive task of plucking them from the shells then baking them in a slow oven until tender.

Because I can be bothered to tediously open bean pods but can’t entertain tending a pot on the stove for hours, my preferred bean-cooking method is to chuck them in a baking dish with water and aromatics and let the oven do its thing. The usual suspects are present: onion, carrot and celery, along with whatever fresh, hardy herbs I have hanging out in the fridge. But then I toss in a few strips of prosciutto (Have a couple errant slices of bacon? Use those) to add their characteristic smoky, salty umami flavor. A dried chile de árbol spikes the low drum of the other aromatics.

A couple hours in the oven — half the time covered in foil, the other half open to the reducing, crisping powers of the oven heat — renders the beans on the bottom tender and those on top crunchy. The cooking liquid is concentrated and flavorful, the perfect elixir to soak up with bread. It’s a simple pot of beans, minus the pot, but that allows you all the smug satisfaction of being the type of person who plans ahead for a great meal.

Baked Fresh Lima Beans with Prosciutto and Chile

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2 hours 15 minutes. Serves 4 to 6.

The aromatics used here should be what you have around and their presence a casual one. If you have leftover chopped onions or carrots, use those in place of the whole pieces. If you have a fresh chile and no dried ones, use that. Similarly, I often buy the “poultry” packets of fresh herbs, which contain both rosemary and sage, and thyme, so that I can use them all without having to buy large amounts of either.

  • 1 pound 6 ounces shelled fresh lima beans (about 4 ½ cups)
  • ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for serving
  • 1 tablespoon kosher salt
  • 1 sage leaf
  • 1 small sprig rosemary
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 dried chile de árbol
  • 6 peeled garlic cloves
  • 4 strips prosciutto, torn into bite-size pieces
  • ¼ medium yellow onion, halved lengthwise
  • ½ small carrot, halved lengthwise
  • ½ small celery stalk, halved lengthwise, plus chopped celery leaves, for serving.
  • Toasted bread, for serving

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees.

2. Spread the beans in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish and add the olive oil, salt, sage, rosemary, bay leaf, chile, garlic, prosciutto, onion, carrot and celery. Pour in 4 cups water. Cover the dish with foil and bake for 1 hour. Uncover the dish and continue baking until the beans are tender and the cooking liquid is slightly reduced, 1 hour more.

3. Remove the dish from the oven, and let the beans cool for 5 minutes. Spoon into bowls, drizzle with more olive oil if you like and sprinkle with celery leaves. Serve with bread for soaking up all the bean liquid.


As if headliner Adam Sandler with special guests Eddie Vedder and Judd Apatow weren’t enough top-level entertainment for Sunday’s Rock4EB! fundraiser, during his nearly hourlong set Sandler brought his daughters Sunny, 10, and Sadie, 13, to the stage to sing Taylor Swift’s “Lover” as he accompanied them on the guitar.

“I love you, guys,” he said, turning to them as they waited to begin. “You’re excited? You’re nervous? It’s going to be OK. … This is the worst part, kids, just standing and not singing.” He then said jokingly, “How do you think I feel every … night I do this …?”

Adding yet another talent to the mix, Vedder asked Glen Hansard, singer-songwriter of the Irish group the Frames, to join him during his half-hour set, and the two sang, among other numbers, “Falling Slowly,” the Academy Award-winning song that Hansard co-wrote for the 2007 film “Once.”

“That was the same year I did music for ‘Into the Wild,’” Vedder, the Pearl Jam singer-songwriter, told Hansard, before saying jokingly, “That song’s why mine didn’t win the Academy Award.” The two then sang “Society” from the 2007 Sean Penn film. “This is a great song,” Vedder added, “and I can say that because I didn’t write it.”

Before the evening ended, Sandler, Vedder and Apatow teamed up to perform “Let My Love Open the Door.”

The event

An affair easily worthy of the exclamation point in its name, Rock4EB! raised more than $900,000 to fund research and find treatments for epidermolysis bullosa, a rare, debilitating and life-threatening disease of the skin.

The scene

Famous faces poured into the Malibu home of Marc Gurvitz of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, where they found an abundance of food and drink options spread out on the spacious lawn overlooking the Pacific.

Participating vendors included Nobu, Spartina, Factor’s Famous Deli, Slab BBQ, Great Taste Catering, D’Amore’s Pizza, Pink’s, Casa Vega, Wally’s, Casamigos, Lail Vineyards, Hourglass Vineyards, Kona Beer and Fiji Water.

Following a brief interview outside the house, Julia Roberts gave Catherine Keener a hug before joining husband Danny Moder and their three children. Before stepping onto the lawn, Leslie Mann stood on the porch, searching the crowd for Apatow, her husband, and daughter, Maude Apatow. Catherine O’Hara, meanwhile, made her way to the swimming pool to place bids in a silent auction.

Many of the same guests attend the event year after year, mixing not only with one another but also with people who have EB.

Courteney Cox said, “It’s so nice to come to these events and reunite with people you really care about and to know they’re doing OK. It’s a hard life for them. [Researchers] are making great progress but they’re not there yet.”

Standing in a quiet spot by the pool, Kaley Cuoco talked of the child who last year asked to watch a taping of “The Big Bang Theory,” the CBS series of which Cuoco was a co-star. “He came to every episode, every Thursday night, and sat in the front row with his family,” she said. “We’re BFFs now, and we talk all the time.”

The crowd

Talent manager Andrea Pett-Joseph, husband Paul Joseph and their 15-year-old son, Brandon, who has EB, welcomed guests including Sean Penn, Rami Malek, Bill Maher, Elizabeth Olsen, David Spade, Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber, Kaia Gerber, Catherine Bell, Ed O’Neill and Kim Basinger.

More quotes

Taking the microphone as guests settled into their seats for the show, Pett-Joseph said, “In a town where relationships can be fleeting, your support has never wavered, and that is not lost on us.”

Julia Roberts said she came “to be part of this incredible community of people, supporting each other and this important cause. The thing that’s always surprising is how many people don’t know anything about this [disease].”

“I’ve always said, ‘If I’m in L.A., I’m coming to this event,” Malek said. “It’s an important cause and something people need to understand.”

“I try to come every year,” said Judd Apatow, wearing a Pearl Jam T-shirt. “It’s a really important charity, and with Adam and Eddie, it’s a dream show for me personally.”

The numbers

More than 600 guests bought tickets ranging from $1,200 each to $25,000 for eight reserved seats, with proceeds going to the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation and the ​EB Research Partnership.


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Rent the Runway reopens after supply-chain crisis

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Rent the Runway says its business is working normally again after a cascade of delayed and canceled orders angered customers.

Rent the Runway Chief Executive Jennifer Hyman said operations were back to normal as of Tuesday morning, “a few days ahead of schedule.” The company had previously said it was aiming for Oct. 15.

The fashion-rental company was trying to limit the damage after customers last month said outfits they ordered for special events hadn’t arrived on time or had been canceled with no warning. Rent the Runway, which said implementation of new software disrupted its sorting system, pledged to refund some customers and give $200 in cash to others whose orders were never shipped.

Services were halted for 11 days, with new subscriptions and individual orders frozen during the downtime, causing a short-term revenue hit. New customers were temporarily barred from registering and put on a waiting list. They will now be processed. Meanwhile, those existing customers eligible for cash were sent their payments last week as the warehouse issues were resolved.

The disruption began in mid-September after Rent the Runway’s new racking system for clothes went into effect at the company’s New Jersey distribution center. In total, 14% of Rent the Runway’s subscribers and 6% of customers who use the service for one-off events were affected.

The company’s top supply-chain executive stepped down as angry customers flocked to the service’s social media pages to voice dismay about being stranded without their planned garments for weddings and galas.

Founded by Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, who is now an executive at Walmart Inc., Rent the Runway has found a following sending borrowed clothes for women to wear for events. The company is valued at more than $1 billion and has raised more than $500 million in venture capital funding and debt from investors including Franklin Templeton, Bain Capital Ventures and Temasek Holdings.

It has grown rapidly into a subscription business, with most of its customers now paying a monthly fee of $159 to rent items that can include Kate Spade dresses and Oscar de la Renta earrings. The service has also started renting out children’s clothing and home decor.


HONG KONG — 

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam warned Tuesday that the Chinese military could step in if an uprising for democratic reforms that has rocked the city for months “becomes so bad,” but said the government still hopes to resolve the crisis itself.

Lam urged foreign critics to accept that the four months of protests marked by escalating violence were no longer “a peaceful movement for democracy.”

She said that seeking Chinese intervention was provided for under Hong Kong’s constitution but that she could not reveal under what circumstances she would do so.

“I still strongly feel that we should find the solutions ourselves. That is also the position of the central government, that Hong Kong should tackle the problem on her own, but if the situation becomes so bad, then no options could be ruled out if we want Hong Kong to at least have another chance,” she said at a news conference.

The protests started in June over a now-shelved extradition bill that would have allowed some criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial but have since morphed into a larger antigovernment movement. Protesters say the bill is an example of Beijing’s increasing influence over the former British colony, which was promised a high level of autonomy when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

The unrest has pummeled tourism and hurt businesses in the global financial hub, further bruising the city’s economy as it grapples with the effects of the U.S.-China trade war.

President Trump on Monday urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to ensure a “humane solution” in Hong Kong. He warned that any “bad” outcome could hurt trade talks ahead of negotiations in Washington on Thursday.

Hardening her government’s stance on the protests last week, Lam invoked a colonial-era emergency law to criminalize the wearing of masks at rallies, fueling more anger and daily violence over the long holiday weekend. Police officers last week fired gunshots at protesters, wounding two teenagers: the first victims of police gunfire since the protests started.

Enforcement of the mask ban began Saturday, and Lam said it was too early to call it a failure.

Police regional chief Kwok Yam-yung said 241 people were detained in widespread “atrocities” over the last four days that saw ferocious attacks on officers and those with opposing views.

He said that included 77 who violated the mask ban, 14 of whom were charged Tuesday, bringing the total number of prosecutions to 16. The mask ban is punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine, which is light in comparison to those accused of rioting, which carries a penalty of up to 10 years.

Since June, 2,363 people have been arrested, with more than 200 charged with rioting.

“Ruthless and reckless acts are pushing the rule of law to the brink of total collapse,” Kwok said.

Critics fear the emergency law, which gives Lam broad powers to implement any measures she deems necessary, could pave the way for more draconian moves. Lam said the government would make a “careful assessment” before deciding on other emergency measures such as internet controls.

She also pledged to continue a dialogue and take steps to address livelihood and economic problems in a policy address due Oct. 16, when the Legislative Council resumes.

Protesters stormed and damaged the legislative building on July 1, requiring repairs. Lam appealed for peace when the legislative session reopens, warning that further disruptions would set back the approval of bills and impede the city’s development.

The city’s subway and trains, which carry some 5 million passengers daily, mostly reopened Tuesday but will shut early amid fears of more protests. The entire MTR network was shut down Saturday, with limited service the last two days.

Videos on local media showed masked protesters smashing windows of a train heading to mainland China late Monday as passengers screamed — the first time a train carriage was attacked. Protesters also threw objects on the track as the train pulled away. An MTR spokesman, who identified himself only as Terry, confirmed the incident and said some cross-border services were suspended Tuesday.

Scores of students wore masks in defiance as they returned to school after the holiday. Some rallied at lunchtime, chanting slogans and holding placards that read “You may take away my mask but not my belief” and “Ideas are bulletproof.”


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