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
The newspaper reported that Wong’s mother and younger brother “had left Hong Kong for Australia a few days ago.” Wong’s father allegedly sold the family’s apartment in the Hong Kong district of South Horizons at a price ten percent below market value, according to the report. Wong’s father refused to verify the developments when contacted by the Hong Kong newspaper. … [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’
More from China New electric car battery can charge in five minutes China gold mine blast: 12 trapped workers still alive following explosion last week COVID-19: US intelligence claims Wuhan lab researchers had coronavirus symptoms before first reported cases COVID-19: Ice cream tests positive for coronavirus in China COVID-19: How did coronavirus begin? If our journey is anything to go by, China won't make it easy to find out COVID-19: WHO scientists arrive in Wuhan to begin investigating origins of pandemic … [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
