James Griffiths, Eric Cheung and Maisy Mok | CNN | 25 November 2019.
Hong Kong: Pro-democracy candidates appear to have made major gains in Hong Kong’s district council elections, as early results trickled in Monday morning, with multiple high-profile pro-government figures losing their seats.
DHARAMSALA, 21 Nov: Tuvalu, a small Oceania country has turned down China’s proposal to build artificial islands to fight with its rising sea levels; a disguised attempt to gain influence in the country.
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DHARAMSALA, 21 Nov: Chinese authorities have arrested two more Tibetans from Zachukha in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham for staging a protest in front of a Chinese police station in the region.
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DHARAMSALA, 21 Nov: China has demanded the US President to veto Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, a bill that supports human rights in Hong Kong or face ‘strong countermeasures’.
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DHARAMSALA, 21 Nov: US lawmakers have unanimously approved Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act as mass pro-democracy protests have gripped the island since June earlier this year.
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DHARAMSALA, 19 Nov: Chinese authorities have arrested four Tibetan monks from Zachukha in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham after hundreds of pamphlets demanding Tibet’s independence were thrown inside the courtyard of a Chinese government’s buildings in the region.
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DHARAMSALA, 16 Nov: Sweden has defied Chinese threat by awarding detained Chinese-born Swedish scholar and bookseller Gui Minhai.
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DHARAMSALA, Nov 16: Gu-Chu- Sum Movement of Tibet, an organization of former political prisoners of Tibet, marked ‘Day of the Imprisoned Writer’ with a poetry night in the woods in Dharamsala yesterday.
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DHARAMSALA, 15 Nov: The US Attorney General William Barr has said that Chinese technology giants Huawei and ZTE “cannot be trusted.”
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DHARAMSALA, 15 Nov: A bipartisan congressional commission of the US government has recommended against referring to China’s Xi Jinping as “president” and instead to call him by his party title, “general secretary.”
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