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Trump has been convicted. Can he still run for president?
New York Times, Published on 31/05/2024
» NEW YORK - Not since Eugene V. Debs campaigned from a prison cell more than a century ago has the United States experienced what is now happening: a prominent candidate with felony convictions running for president. And never before has that candidate been someone with a real chance of winning.
Greece becomes first Orthodox country to allow same-sex marriage
New York Times, Published on 16/02/2024
» ATHENS — Greece legalised same-sex marriage and equal parental rights for same-sex couples Thursday as lawmakers passed a bill that has divided Greek society and drawn vehement opposition from the country’s powerful Orthodox Church.
Food export bans in Asia prompt fears of more protectionism
New York Times, Published on 11/06/2022
» As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helped push global agricultural prices to soaring heights, some Asian governments restricted the export of products they viewed as essential to domestic food security.
Cambodia internet soon to be like China
New York Times, Published on 15/01/2022
» PHNOM PENH: The day Kea Sokun was arrested in Cambodia, four men in plainclothes showed up at his photography shop near Angkor Wat and carted him off to the police station. Kea Sokun, who is also a popular rapper, had released two songs on YouTube, and the men said they needed to know why he had written them.
Censorship, surveillance and profits: hard bargain for Apple in China
New York Times, Published on 18/05/2021
» GUIYANG, China: On the outskirts of this city in a poor, mountainous province in southwestern China, men in hard hats recently put the finishing touches on a white building a quarter-mile long with few windows and a tall surrounding wall.
Hong Kong court convicts democracy leaders
New York Times, Published on 01/04/2021
» HONG KONG: Seven of Hong Kong’s leading veteran pro-democracy advocates were found guilty Thursday of unauthorised assembly, as Beijing’s campaign to quash the city’s opposition ensnared some of its most senior and well-recognised figures.
Trial for Suu Kyi begins in secret
New York Times, Published on 16/02/2021
» The closed-door trial began in secret, with the two defendants appearing by video. The defence attorney wasn’t even aware what was happening. By the time he rushed to the court on Tuesday afternoon, it was all over, in less than an hour.
Stationed in Singapore, solving crimes in New York City
New York Times, Published on 23/08/2018
» "How did you get here so fast?"
14m visitors to US face social-media screening
New York Times, Published on 31/03/2018
» Nearly all applicants for a visa to enter the United States -- an estimated 14.7 million people a year -- will be asked to submit their social-media usernames for the past five years, under proposed rules that the State Department issued Friday.
Joshua Wong, 2 others jailed for Hong Kong pro-democracy protest
New York Times, Published on 18/08/2017
» HONG KONG - Three prominent young leaders of Hong Kong's democracy movement were sentenced Thursday to six to eight months in prison, a severe setback for the technically semi-autonomous Chinese city in its struggle for greater political freedom under Communist Party rule.