[1] On 17 December 2005, during the WTO Conference, protestors from South Korea broke the police defensive line on Lockhart Road and attempted to break into the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai North.

This action developed into a major clash with the Hong Kong Police Force.

[citation needed] Part of Lockhart Road near its western end is the backbone of one of Hong Kong Island's two main bar districts, the other being the slightly more upmarket Lan Kwai Fong and SoHo area.

Once considered primarily a red light district, the area is now much more mixed, with bars, pubs, restaurants and discos.

A number of the raunchier bars still remain, their doorways festooned with lightly clothed girls from Thailand and the Philippines.