As the conflict between Hong Kong protestors and the Hong Kong police intensified, the officers started using tear gas. Till now, more than 1,800 rounds have been fired against the protestors. Tear gas against citizens Hong Kong police argue that they are compelled to use tear gas because protestors have turned more violent. However, a ...
Simon Cheng Man-kit, a Hong Kong resident working as a consultant for the British Consulate in Hong Kong, went missing on Aug. 8 while attending a business meeting in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city that borders Hong Kong. Cheng was released by the Chinese police after 15 days of “administrative detention” and returned to Hong ...
In one of the protests at Hong Kong International Airport, a violent clash erupted between the demonstrators and police officers. The incident shocked many people as it was one of the most brutal conflicts between the two sides since the protests began a couple of months back. What really happened The protesters had surrounded two ...
In July, the government of India released its census data for 2001-2011. Though the fact that the information was released eight years after data collection surprised many people, what made the statistics interesting are the numbers of Chinese migrants. During the 10-year period, the number of overall Chinese migrants fell from 23,712 to 14,951. The ...
The Hong Kong protests have split the celebrities of the city in two. While one group is trying to play it safe by backing Beijing’s “One China” rhetoric or simply keeping quiet, the other camp is openly supporting the protesters and has strongly criticized the Chinese Communist Party for its crackdown on freedom-loving Hongkongers. Allying ...
Chinese social media users are venting their anger against Starbucks after the company’s Hong Kong store started giving out coffee in cups with pro-democracy slogans. Starbucks controversy The controversy started with a Chinese Weibo user who visited a Starbucks barista in the Tsim Sha Tsui region of Hong Kong. When the user received the coffee ...
The protests in Hong Kong have not only seen the participation of youth and activists, but also that of Hong Kong families who come out with their children. Many of the participating parents believe that it is necessary to instill the value of fighting for one’s freedoms right from childhood. A family affair “We have ...
Fifteen medical studies were retracted from two journals in August over concerns that their authors used organs from the organ harvesting of executed prisoners in China. The medical journals, Transplantation and PLOS ONE, pulled the studies that they had published from 2008-2014, the blog Retraction Watch reported. The report said that two of the studies ...
After threatening military intervention, Beijing has added one more pressure tactic to its arsenal in a bid to stop Hongkongers from protesting against Chinese communist control in the city — loss of jobs. Reports suggest that companies, such as Cathay Pacific, are being made to pick a side in the ongoing conflict, with businesses warned ...
Andrew Hastie, an Australian MP, has warned that China’s ambitious growth is similar to that of Nazi Germany and that it presents a grave security threat to his country. China and Nazi Germany “The West once believed that economic liberalization would naturally lead to democratization in China. This was our Maginot Line. It would keep ...
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