They later faced a swell of criticism from human rights groups, with Will Howlett, analyst at HSBC shareholder Quilter Cheviot, noting: "There are risks that HSBC becomes a political football after Peter Wong's declaration of support for the new national security law." … [Read more...] about HSBC and StanChart voice support for China’s Hong Kong security law
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Report: Hong Kong Protest Leader Joshua Wong’s Family Flees to Australia
Australia offered thousands of Hongkongers “safe haven visas,” or pathways to permanent residency, last summer in response to the city’s national security law, which stripped Hong Kong of its limited civil liberties. Wong told the Australian Financial Review in July 2020 that he welcomed the country’s offer. … [Read more...] about Report: Hong Kong Protest Leader Joshua Wong’s Family Flees to Australia
Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab tells China to ‘step back from the brink’
He added: "If China follows through with its proposed legislation, we will put in place new arrangements to allow BNOs to come to the UK without the current six-month limit, enabling them to live and apply to study and work for extendable periods of 12 months, thereby also providing a pathway to citizenship." … [Read more...] about Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab tells China to ‘step back from the brink’
Pompeo says China’s policies on Muslims amount to ‘genocide’
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell designated the situation in Sudan’s western Darfur region a genocide in 2004. Former Secretary of State John Kerry applied the term to the Islamic State’s repression and massacres of Yazidis and other ethnic and religious minorities in Syria and Iraq in 2016, but he couched it by saying it was a legal determination only that did not mandate action by the U.S. government. … [Read more...] about Pompeo says China’s policies on Muslims amount to ‘genocide’
India registers 10,064 new COVID-19 cases, Pakistan approves China’s Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use
Cambodia reported two more imported COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the kingdom to 441, said a health ministry (MoH) statement. The new cases were a one-year-old Indonesian boy and a 31-year-old Cambodian woman, the statement said. … [Read more...] about India registers 10,064 new COVID-19 cases, Pakistan approves China’s Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use
