HONG KONG -- An iconic statue commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing was removed from the campus of the University of Hong Kong overnight after standing there for 24 years.
In the early hours of Thursday, a Nikkei Asia reporter heard cracking and cutting sounds from behind a large white curtain and yellow barricades that had abruptly been put up around the 8-meter-tall "Pillar of Shame."
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