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June 4th Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary quiet again in Hong Kong

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Hong Kong was once the only place on Chinese soil where large-scale commemorations were held to mourn those killed in the June 4, 1989, crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Since 1990, football pitches in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park were used as a venue for tens of thousands of people to gather for annual candlelight…

Commemorations mark China’s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown around world as vigil silenced in Hong Kong

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube People have gathered in cities around the world, including in Taipei, New York, London and Melbourne, to mark 33 years since China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown. Among those attending June 4, 2022, events were immigrants from Hong Kong, where an annual candlelight vigil was banned for the third year in a row. The Hongkongers said overseas memorials…

Map of childhood village leads abducted man in China to find his biological family 33 years later

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A 37-year-old Chinese man who was abducted at the age of four has found his biological mother by drawing a map of his home village strictly from memory. Li Jingwei was taken in 1989 by a neighbour who sold him to another family in Henan province, more than 1,770km (1,100 miles) from his home in Yunnan…

December 24, 2021: United, Delta cancel flights, Omicron, Kim Potter, Georgia poll staff, Tiananmen

December 24, 2021: United, Delta, cancel Christmas Eve flights, Omicron wave, Kim Potter guilty, Georgia poll workers, Tiananmen 1. United Airlines and Delta Air Lines have canceled hundreds of Christmas Eve flights, as the spreading COVID-19 Omicron variant takes a toll on its flight crews and other workers. 2. Millions of Americans carried on with travel plans through a second pandemic-clouded holiday season, despite a…

Taliban fighters help NGO clear landmines in Afghanistan

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The British non-government organisation HALO Trust has since September 2021 been helping a village in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province identify areas where landmines have been buried. For years, the Nad Ali village on the front lines of the conflict between the US-led occupation forces and the Taliban, who planted numerous landmines in the area. But with…

Hong Kong university orders removal of sculpture honouring victims of Tiananmen Square crackdown

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has demanded the removal of the Pillar of Shame sculpture from its campus. Critics say the decision to remove the controversial sculpture, which pays tribute to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, is the latest example of how Hongkongers are continuously losing their freedoms under Chinese rule. (Photo:…

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