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Hong Kong’s Fenwick Pier to be demolished after serving foreign navy sailors for decades

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Hong Kong’s Fenwick Pier, which has welcomed foreign navy ships and sailors for decades, will be shut down on February 11, 2022. Owned by the non-profit Servicemen’s Guides Association (SGA), the city’s only American navy pier was built in 1970 on what was once the harbourfront in the Wan Chai district. After Britain returned its former…

Afghanistan faces second year of drought, its worst in decades

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube More than 80 per cent of Afghanistan is suffering from severe drought, paralysing food production and forcing people to leave their land. While the country is no stranger to droughts, the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization (UNFAO) has warned that climate change could make them more frequent and intense. Already, Afghanistan’s wheat harvest in 2021…

Chinese activist who spent decades protecting Dianchi Lake finally sees polluters named and shamed

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Environmental activist Zhang Zhengxiang has spent decades trying to protect Dianchi Lake in China’s southwestern Yunnan province. It is the largest freshwater lake in southwest China, but also the country’s most polluted. After decades of monitoring and reporting on polluters, Zhang, who is now in his 70s, saw local officials finally brought to justice for damaging…

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