Passage: Many workers were advised to operate from home and some companies, such as telecoms firm Reach, temporarily relocated operations to outlying districts, leaving only a skeleton staff for the duration of the six-day meeting. Instead of office workers crowding the sidewalks of Wan Chai's Gloucester Road, groups of police stood ready in case protests turned violent, part of a massive security operation involving 9,000 officers staged for the WTO meeting.
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