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Outrage in Hong Kong as China pushes security law
AFP, Published on 22/05/2020
» HONG KONG - China has launched one of its fiercest assaults on Hong Kong's treasured autonomy with its move to impose a security law, pro-democracy campaigners said Friday as they vowed to take to the streets in protest.
Hong Kong activists plan new protests over proposed security law
AFP, Published on 24/05/2020
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's pro-democracy campaigners called for fresh protests on Sunday, their first test after China sparked outrage with a proposed new security law that many fear will spell the end of the city's treasured freedoms.
Hong Kong hit by fresh protest after China security proposal
AFP, Published on 24/05/2020
» HONG KONG: Police fired tear gas and pepper spray at hundreds of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters who gathered Sunday in opposition to a controversial security law proposed by China last week.
US declares Hong Kong no longer enjoying autonomy
AFP, Published on 27/05/2020
» WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Wednesday that Hong Kong no longer enjoys the autonomy promised by Beijing, stripping the financial hub of its special status under US law.
Amnesty: Online freedom no better since election
Published on 25/04/2020
» Half a decade of military rule may have given way to an elected government, but authorities in Thailand continue to excessively restrict freedom of expression online, according to Amnesty International.
Muzzle on free speech persists
News, Editorial, Published on 26/04/2020
» The erosion of free expression continues in Thailand. In Reporters Without Borders (RSF)'s annual 2020 World Press Freedom Index, Thailand dropped four spots, ranking 140th out of 180 countries on the open media barometer, placing it one spot below Myanmar.
How Beijing is reigniting Hong Kong's protests
AFP, Published on 30/04/2020
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters want to reignite their movement after a coronavirus lockdown lull, angered by a flurry of moves by China to subdue them.
Riot police chase Hong Kong Mother's Day protesters
AFP, Published on 11/05/2020
» HONG KONG: Riot police chased protesters through Hong Kong's shopping malls and streets on Sunday as democracy activists launched Mother's Day flash mob rallies calling for independence and for the city's unpopular leader to resign.
Context is decisive in Thai high politics
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 28/02/2020
» In Thailand's high politics where governments survive or succumb, context is everything. After two decades of a political merry-go-round, marked by a series of elections, street protests, military coups, and judicial interventions only to end up with a problematic post-election rule under military domination, no deep expertise is needed to understand what has been happening in this land.
Exiled Catalan leader plans mass rally in France
AFP, Published on 29/02/2020
» PERPIGNAN, France: Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain over a failed 2017 independence bid, is expecting to draw vast crowds of supporters to a rally on Saturday in southern France near the Catalan border.