Communist teacher turned health minister leads pandemic fight in India

Years ago, I had read that Kerala led India in literacy rates, excellent health care for all, social services, women's rights, low infant mortality, and life ...

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Hongkongers have glimpsed the future under Carrie Lam – and it's pretty scary

"Hong Kong's future could have been very different. But instead this government, taking its marching orders from the north, has put the best and ...

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Fear, uncertainty and the grim face of poverty in Hong Kong with COVID-19

Living in one of the most expensive cities, Lam Ka Yuen keeps asking himself if he can survive the COVID-19 pandemic. With no promise ...

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Appalling' and 'Grim': World Leaders React to Sentencing of Hong Kong Activists

Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for charges related to an ...

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Hong Kong jails 3 prominent young pro-democracy activists

They're heroes to many who back the city's pro-democracy movement, but irritants, if not enemies, to Hong Kong's pro-Beijing establishment. Now the ...

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Hong Kong has more skyscrapers than nearly any city. But 60 years ago, tigers were still seen in ...

The South China tiger. The tiger is a potent symbol in Chinese culture. In traditional Chinese medicine, tiger-penis soup has for centuries been ...

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Hong Kong journalists harassed, arrested and losing press freedoms under new China law

... Chinese Communist Party, the semiautonomous Hong Kong has a commercial news industry, which is guaranteed freedom of press under the city's ...

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There can be no 'new chapter' with China while Hong Kong's freedoms are trampled

Children have been brutally arrested, pro-democracy activists have been ... The Bank of China's call is an insult to human rights and the principle of ...

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