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TopicHong Kong protests

Topic: Hong Kong protests

Also streaming on TikTok now — climate change videos and social experiments

US teen Feroza Aziz's viral TikTok video on Chinese concentration camps is just one of the ways the platform is being used as a tool for activism.

Landslide victory for pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong district elections

A record 71 per cent people voted in the elections and the pro-democracy parties won a majority in 17 out of 18 councils.

12-year-old becomes youngest Hong Kong protester to be convicted

Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported Thursday that the student admitted to two counts of criminal damage.

Violent protests escalate in Hong Kong as Beijing sends in army troops

A stand-off between the police and protesters at the Polytechnic University over the weekend, left over 500 people trapped on campus.

Hong Kong on ‘brink of total breakdown’ due to protests, says city police

The pro-democracy protests entered its most violent phase after a 22-year-old protester died after the police used live fire against them.

Fake news and rumours deepen distrust, divide as protests roil Hong Kong

With Hong Kong witnessing a 23rd successive week of violent agitation, both the govt and protesters have stepped up online efforts to win the battle for public opinion.

Hong Kong to Haiti, Chile to Lebanon — what is common as world is up in arms against govts

A brief look at the mass protests in several countries over the last few months, the common thread and the transnational trends at play.

Street protests around the world show democracy is on the march, not in retreat

If democracy means rule of the people, and a demand for social equality, then we are witnessing its flowering in the most populous parts of the world.

Hong Kong protests turned into video game

Assembled in a week by a ragtag group of students and office workers, Liberate Hong Kong is a rudimentary first-person simulation of the anti-China movement that has gripped Hong Kong.

Iraq to Chile, protests across the globe have one thing in common

As protests go, those across the world are resulting in street rallies, violent clashes with police, damage to public property, etc. But there's one significant difference.

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