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3 Oct 2014 Hong Kong is at a gentle boil. As of this writing, tens of thousands of students have been politely demonstrating, calling for the Beijing-appointed chief executive, C.Y. Leung, to resign...
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View ArticleNO PEOPLE HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE ON SUFFERING
April 25, 2015 It’s good and right that we commemorate the mass killing in the Ottoman Empire during World War I of between 500,000 and 1.5 million Armenians. Many nations now call the slaughter...
View ArticleHONG KONG: DON’T PROVOKE THE DRAGON
August 17, 2019 Time was when flying to Hong Kong was a really big thrill – or maybe scare would be a better term. Its old airport, Kai Tak, was right in the middle of bustling downtown Hong Kong....
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