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PLA modernizes Xinjiang's military posture
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 17 (ANI): There is abundant evidence, from online social media releases of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and state-controlled media, that the Chinese military has intensified efforts to modernize ground units in the Xinjiang Military District.
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Hong Kong Stock Exchange suspends trading in media tycoon Jimmy Lai's comp
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 17 (ANI): The Hong Kong Stock Exchange temporarily suspended trading of shares belonging to jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai's Next Digital before the market opening on Monday, two days after the Security Bureau froze nearly HKD 500 million of his assets.
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2,000 Hong Kong civil servants quit in 2020-21, the highest in 15 years
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 15 (ANI): Nearly 2,000 civil servants quit working for the Hong Kong government in 2020-21, the highest annual figure in at least 15 years, South China Morning Post reported.
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Hong Kong authorities freeze Jimmy Lai's assets worth HKD 500 million
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 15 (ANI): Hong Kong authorities have frozen nearly HKD 500 million of imprisoned media tycoon Jimmy Lai's assets under the draconian national security law.
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Hong Kong legislature approves bill requiring officials to pledge allegian
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 13 (ANI): Hong Kong's largely opposition-free legislature approved a new bill that will require public officers to pledge allegiance to the pro-China government.
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China continued to restrict activities, personal freedom of religious adhe
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 13 (ANI): The Chinese government in 2020 continued to assert control over religion and restrict the activities and personal freedom of religious adherents that it perceived as threatening state or Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interests, according to the US 2020 report o
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China banks' profit revival falters as lenders sucked in bad debt provisio
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 11 (ANI): China banks' profit revival falters as country's largest lenders get sucked into further support for ailing parts of the economy and struggling state-owned companies (bad debts), despite a broad recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
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China's 'relatives policy' emerging as part of broader crackdown on Uyghur
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 11 (ANI): China's 2016 'relatives policy', where Chinese government cadres are sent to live, work and sleep with families to promote national harmony in the country, has emerged as a major constituent of a broader crackdown on Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang
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Tibet, China's pioneer in social control
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 10 (ANI): As much as China is trying to silence critics and hide its pogroms against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, more and more is being exposed of its horrendous human rights abuses there. Unfortunately, China will not settle for just exorcising Uyghur culture, as other minority grou
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Chinese lawyer involved in Hong Kong fugitives' case barred from leaving c
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 10 (ANI): A lawyer in mainland China, who was deregistered after taking up the case of one of the Hong Kong fugitives captured while trying to flee to Taiwan, has been barred from leaving the country to the United States on national security grounds.
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Study uncovers clues on evolution, diversification of legumes
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], April 28 (ANI) May 9 (ANI): The most comprehensive study of the family tree for legumes, the plant family that includes beans, soybeans, peanuts, and many other economically important crop plants, reveals a history of whole-genome duplications.
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Jailed Hong Kong activist gets new prison term over Tiananmen Square vigil
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 6 (ANI): Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to serve 10 more months in prison on Thursday for joining last year's vigil to commemorate victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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