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Ex-Chilean president dies in helicopter crash
New York Times, Published on 07/02/2024
» SANTIAGO - Sebastián Piñera, a former president of Chile who helped strengthen the nation’s young democracy after becoming its first conservative leader since a military dictatorship, died in a helicopter crash in Chile on Tuesday, the government said. He was 74.
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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.
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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.
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‘Better to walk through a minefield’: victims of Burma Army speak
New York Times, Published on 09/03/2021
» The soldiers from Myanmar’s army knocked on U Thein Aung’s door one morning last April as he was having tea with friends, and demanded that all of them accompany the platoon to another village.
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Govt targets pro-democracy protesters in sweeping legal dragnet
New York Times, Published on 01/02/2021
» A 16-year-old boy is facing possible jail time for parading down a makeshift catwalk in a crop top said to evoke His Majesty the King. An actress stands accused of breaking the law by cheering on and delivering spicy takeout to hungry members of the country’s protest movement.
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Hong Kong's universities now citadels under siege
New York Times, Published on 14/11/2019
» HONG KONG: Seething with anger, the black-clad students hurled gasoline bombs, threw bricks and even aimed flaming arrows at riot police, who answered with tear-gas volleys and rubber bullets that hurtled into Hong Kong’s university grounds for the first time.
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Born in blood, Myanmar's army prospers
New York Times, Published on 29/01/2018
» YANGON: For Myanmar's army, the campaign of atrocity it has waged to drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims out of the country is no innovation. The force was born in blood 76 years ago and has been shedding it ever since.
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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.
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China says 2 activists sent back by Thailand now detained
New York Times, Published on 27/11/2015
» BEIJING -- The Chinese government confirmed it has repatriated and detained two dissidents who were living in Thailand and had won UN recognition as refugees, a state-run newspaper reported.
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