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Labour candidate and former journalist Yuan Yang has become the UK’s first ever Chinese-born member of the parliament, as her party trounced the ruling Conservative Party in a general election that also saw a record number of women voted in. The centre-left opposition Labour Party won the election on Friday after racing past the 326 seats needed to secure a majority in parliament, ending 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule. Labour leader Keir Starmer will become the UK’s next prime minister later on Friday, after outgoing leader Rishi Sunak of the Tories conceded defeat. With five constit...
Hong Kong Free Press
It’s early Sunday afternoon and Angelo*, a welder from the Philippines, sings Robbie Williams’ song Angels at the top of his lungs inside a flat he shares with fellow migrant workers in Sosnowiec, a Polish city of some 190,000 residents long known for its mining and steel production. In the background, there is the clattering of cutlery as another Filipino man chops onions and throws them into a large pot with pork, amid occasional giggles from his young daughter. More than 6,000 miles away, in the Philippines, she is following her father’s steps via a video call on a mobile phone balanced on ...
Hong Kong Free Press
Thirty five years have passed since the Tiananmen crackdown occurred in 1989. Hong Kong, which for 30 years was one of the only places on Chinese soil to host large-scale commemorations that marked the incident, has seen its candlelight vigils snuffed out following Covid curbs and the enactment of a Beijing-imposed security law. However, cities around the world held their own vigils, where people lit candles and sung protest songs to remember the hundreds, perhaps thousands, who died when the People’s Liberation Army cracked down on protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989, and the changes that h...
Hong Kong Free Press
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2005 – with Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs deeply divided following a brutal war in the 1990s – a bronze statue was unveiled in Mostar of a figure it was hoped everyone could agree on: Bruce Lee. The inauguration was attended by the late kung-fu star’s widow and the Chinese ambassador, and took place a day before a similar sculpture was revealed in Hong Kong, making it the world’s first public statue of the martial arts legend. Yet, after surviving a series of trials and tribulations, it mysteriously disappeared in March this year. Sculptor Ivan Fijolić’s ...
Hong Kong Free Press
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