HONG KONG -- Pro-democracy candidates won a majority of the seats in Hong Kong's district council elections on Sunday, breaking the pro-Beijing camp's grip on local governance in the former British colony.
Some of the highest-profile candidates in the pro-establishment camp, including Legislative Council members and longtime district councilors, lost to challengers from the opposition on high turnout by younger voters -- a demographic tending toward greater sympathy for the pro-democracy movement.
