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Newlyweds at the Pride to Be event on June 25, 2024. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. This report by Hillary Leung was originally published at Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on July 6, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement. The banquet hall in Hong Kong’s Eaton Hotel has seen countless wedding celebrations, but never quite like this: there was not one newlywed couple, there were 10; and the officiant appeared not standing before them, but on a screen via Zoom, her time zone in the US state of Utah putting her 14 hours behind the city. Standing beneath a flower...
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A solitary first half goal from Hokuto Shimoda was enough for Machida Zelvia to see-off Nagoya Grampus 1-0 on Saturday, ensuring that the newly-promoted side would remain top of the J.League 1 table, while Gamba Osaka consolidate themselves in 3rd place courtesy of a 4-0 thrashing of Yokohama F. Marinos. Saturday's match at the Machida GION Stadium in western Tokyo marks the last appearance of young winger Yu Hirakawa, who is currently being linked with a move overseas to Championship side Bristol City. Fittingly, the Olympics-bound Hirakawa assisted former Oita Trinia captain Shimoda with the...
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Workers pick cotton in Uzbekistan. Image via Wikipedia. Creative Commons license CC0 1.0 In recent years, the international community has boycotted cotton sourced from Xinjiang, a vast region in northwestern China, due to concerns over human rights violations. Under the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Beijing has subjected Xinjiang’s Muslim minorities to arbitrary detention and forced labor. Some global cotton buyers, in response, have turned to other regions to fulfill cotton demands. The boycotting of Xinjiang cotton has created something of a ripple effect in other parts of the ...
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German giants Borussia Dortmund have announced that they will perform a tour of Asia for their 2024/25 pre-season, with the Black-and Yellow set to take on BG Pathum United in Pathum Thani on July 21st before traveling to Osaka where they will face Cerezo Osaka on July 24th. Fresh off finishing as runners-up in the 2023/24 UEFA Champions League and with former player Nuri Sahin at the helm, Dortmund will seek to further their presence in the Asian market with their trip to both Thailand and Japan. Former Dortmund star Shinji Kagawa is part of the current Cerezo team, while former Cerezo youngs...
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The ceremony of signing the agreement on the joint construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway in Beijing, China. Photo from the website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan. Fair use. This article was written by Andrew Gundal for Vlast.kz and published on June 21, 2024. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway plans are back on track. On June 6, representatives from the three countries signed off on the project in Beijing, setting in motion a key transportation project that has been in t...
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A Myanmar smartphone user checks Facebook in 2021. Photo from The Irrawaddy, used with permission. This article by Mi Ei Thinzar Myint was originally published in The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar. This edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Myanmar’s military regime blocked Facebook and other messaging apps following the 2021 coup in a bid to restrict freedom of expression and communication that it believes threatens its rule. The people of Myanmar were using virtual private networks (VPNs), either paid or free versions, to b...
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Image created from Public Domain Pictures by Oiwan Lam. License CC0 Public Domain China issued a set of guidelines for its judiciary on handling crimes related to advocating Taiwan's independence last Friday, June 21 2024. The new guidelines, jointly issued by China’s judicial and security authorities, list out acts of secession and authorize absentia trials and the punishment of “diehard” Taiwan separatists with the death penalty and no statute of limitations. Although the Chinese courts have no jurisdiction over Taiwan, the guidelines state that security authorities can issue global warrants...
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Image © 2024 Appcensorship. Used with permission. When the US House of Representatives passed the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok, a popular video app, to an American company or face being banned in the US, citing national security concerns, the Chinese government criticized the move as “an act of bullying.” Yet, ironically, TikTok, along with other globally popular social media platforms, is also unavailable in China. Conversely, ByteDance tailor-made a local version, Douyin, for Chinese users, to comply with the country’s stringent censorship rules. In fact, TikTok is n...
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The Democracy Movement Strike Committee-Dawei in Tanintharyi Region’s Long Lone Township organized a protest against the Myanmar junta by celebrating the 79th birthday of detained Myanmar leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo from the X post of The Irrawaddy, a content partner of Global Voices. “Flower Strikes,” community protests, and solidarity actions were held on June 19 across Myanmar to push for the release of detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and over 20,000 political prisoners. Suu Kyi celebrated her 79th birthday under the custody of the military junta which grabbed power in Febru...
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Japan youth international striker Rento Takaoka is set to join newly-promoted Premier League side Southampton after the 17-year old signed a pre-contract deal on Wednesday. Takaoka broke into the scenes during the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia, where he led Japan to the round of 16 with his four goals, all of them coming off the bench, including two crucial group stage goals against Senegal that squeezed the Young Samurai Blue into the knockouts. A student of the Nissho Gakuen High School in Miyazaki, Takaoka's exploits in the U-17 World Cup attracted global attention and it was Southa...
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