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Hong Kong protests: PolyU student gets 13 months’ jail for possession of weapons outside police station Hongkong

Hong Kong protests: PolyU student gets 13 months’ jail for possession of weapons outside police station

Polytechnic University undergraduate Ng Chun-wai, 24, was found with a hammer, can of lighter fluid and glass bottle clogged with a piece of cloth inside police station in Mong Kok Magistrate Winnie Lau dismisses defendant’s claim he had been ‘tortured’ and framed by police, says he kept the items ‘with…
bubmag
October 27, 2021
As activists plan nationwide protests, Cuba accuses U.S. of involvement Hongkong

As activists plan nationwide protests, Cuba accuses U.S. of involvement

As activists in Cuba defy the government and continue preparing for nationwide protests Nov. 15, the government is ratcheting up its rhetoric against the U.S., accusing it of financing and directing protesters. President Miguel Díaz-Canel said in a speech Sunday that the protests were “a plan orchestrated by the exterior.”…
bubmag
October 27, 2021
Philippines protests China vessels’ provocative acts in South China Sea Hongkong

Philippines protests China vessels’ provocative acts in South China Sea

Pia Lee-Brago - The Philippine Star October 22, 2021 | 12:00am In a tweet, the DFA said the Philippines protested the unlawful issuance of over 200 radio challenges, sounding of sirens, and blowing of horns by Chinese government vessels against Philippine vessels “conducting legitimate, customary, and routine patrols over and…
bubmag
October 21, 2021
Protests or not, Beijing Games are about unity, says IOC’s Samaranch Hongkong

Protests or not, Beijing Games are about unity, says IOC’s Samaranch

ANCIENT OLYMPIA - Next year's Beijing Games has triggered protests over China's human rights record but the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) point man for the event, Juan Antonio Samaranch, said the multi-sport extravaganza is about bringing young people together. Samaranch, the IOC's head of the coordination commission for the Beijing Olympics…
bubmag
October 18, 2021