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A Hong Kong park that traditionally hosts huge vigils on the anniversary of China's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown lay empty for the first time late Friday as police blocked access, but flashes of defiance still flickered across the city. Huge crowds have routinely gathered in Hong Kong's Victoria Park to…

In the eight years since the death of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, at the age of fifty-eight, his vaunted “Bolivarian” revolution to unify the Andean nations of South America has gone the way of most fever dreams. The region remains in ferment, beset by varying degrees of social, economic,…

VIENNA (AP) — The 35-year-old woman was working at a tobacco shop in Vienna when authorities say her ex-boyfriend doused her in gasoline and set her ablaze in March. In April, another woman the same age was found shot to…Read More

Beijing's Ministry of Education on Wednesday suggested Hong Kong clarify the status of simplified Chinese and Mandarin in law, and for students here to learn Mandarin under a system in which the language is incorporated into the local exam system. The suggestions were made in a report about the language…

The murder of George Floyd last year and renewed Black Lives Matter protests that followed underlined the need to tackle anti-Black racism, including in Canadian classrooms. But how does this work with young learners? Canadian teachers Curtis Dardaine, from left, Monica Noakes and Robin Jensen share their classroom approaches to…

A member of ESMA throws a tear gas grenade by hand at the protesters on May 28, 2021 in Bogota, Colombia. (Photo by Ovidio Gonzalez/Getty Images) Colombia has been rocked by a month of bloody street protests in which dozens have died. Anger at a proposal to raise taxes on…

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An elderly democracy activist arrested on Sunday for staging a solo demonstration over the Tiananmen Square massacre was released on Monday, with police saying she could still be charged. Alexandra Wong – known as Grandma Wong – was stopped by police on Sunday as she marched solo towards the Liaison…

Gender roles absorbed at an early age seem to have shaped today's youth regarding their involvement in politics, in line with traditional stereotypes, concludes a new study, conducted amongst adolescents and young adults aged between 15 and 30 in Italy, within the Horizon 2020 project: "CATCH-EyoU. Processes in Youth's Construction…