HONG KONG (Reuters) - Masked pro-Beijiing activists scuffled with Hong Kong democracy protesters on Tuesday with one demonstrator taken to hospital as tensions grow ahead of a mass protest to push China to allow full democracy in the former British colony.
China's parliament last month said it would tightly control the nomination of candidates for a landmark election in Hong Kong in 2017, a move that Hong Kong's so-called "Occupy Central" activists said would trigger a mass sit-in of the city's Central business district in protest.