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K-pop fans weigh in as BTS member Jin begins military service

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube K-pop group BTS member Jin began his mandatory South Korean military service on December 13, 2022. The band’s other members will soon follow in his footsteps, leaving fans heartbroken and uncertain about the group’s future. Widely considered South Korea’s biggest-ever global phenomenon, BTS sparked debate on whether exemptions for celebrities should be allowed. Related story: BTS’…

Chinese ‘overseas service stations’ under scrutiny after claims they are illegal police stations

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Dutch police are investigating reports by a Spanish rights group that Chinese police centres are operating illegally in the Netherlands, using them as a base to intimidate critics of Beijing. But speaking to journalists on October 27, 2022, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning described the facilities as overseas centres offering consular and administrative assistance for…

K-pop group BTS to enter South Korea’s mandatory military service, to reunite 'around 2025'

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube K-pop supergroup BTS will enlist in mandatory military service, the boy band’s agency said on October 17, 2022. The group’s oldest member, Jin, will enter service later in 2022, followed by the remaining six band members. All able-bodied men in South Korea between the ages of 18-28 must serve in the military for around two years….

Occupied – BBC World Service

On March 1 Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, watched Russian tanks roll down his street. As his world, like many Ukrainians’, turned upside down, he secretly started filming everything around him, sensing history in the making, and sharing the footage with BBC Eye. Subscribe – https://www.youtube.com/bbcworldservice Over the next three months Dmytro records his city’s resistance. Acts of defiance, including large demonstrations…

Britain's new Hongkongers – BBC World Service

Since last year, over a hundred thousand people from Hong Kong have left everything they know to escape a government accused of eroding freedoms and to start new lives in the UK. Subscribe – https://www.youtube.com/bbcworldservice As Elaine Chong follows some of Britain’s new Hongkongers, she discovers that while some have found less stressful lives, others have discovered the city’s political tensions have followed them on…

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