Nearby a double-decker bus transformed into a dazibao wall, some militants of a so-called Socialist Action -- affiliated with the trotskyist Committee for a Workers’ International -- held a meeting in the Mong Kok quarter. "Nathan", 33, explains how he sees Hong Kong's future. One of his European friends tries to convince an older Hongkongese. Later on, two more discussions with demonstrators, about differences between Hongkongers and Chinese and the future of the autonomous region.

Hong Kong, street discussions

Hong Kong, a walk through a street market, a flower market and a bird market in the Mong Kok district (October 2014)

Three markets in Hong Kong

Going down at the Admiralty Station and taking the tube till the Tsim Sha Tsui station and walking out through long corridors leading to a vast shopping mall and finally to a Kowloon street.

In the Hong Kong subway and out

Patrick Modiano's press conference in Stockholm on December 6, 2014, ahead of the Nobel Prize ceremony --- French, with an excellent translation in English.
Conférence de presse de Patrick Modiano le 6 décembre à Stockholm, avant de recevoir son prix Nobel (en français, avec - excellente - traduction en anglais).

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