One crucial oversight and a single social media post may have changed everything for Disney’s upcoming Mulan — a live-action remake of their 1998 animation — set to hit screens in spring 2020. As mainland Chinese are showing off their wealth more than ever — enjoying extravagant holidays, buying up international real estate, and sending their ...
One of the most acclaimed Hong Kong writers, Ni Kuang, was born in Shanghai into an intellectual family from the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, China. In 1951, 16-year-old Ni Kuang was deeply moved by communist propaganda and became determined to pursue the ideal of creating heaven on earth as envisioned by the Communist Party. ...
A female panda at Germany’s Berlin Zoo recently gave birth to two baby cubs. When a local newspaper asked readers to suggest names for the baby twin pandas, “Hong” and “Kong” topped the list. Newborn twin pandas The cubs were born to Meng Meng (female) and Jiao Ching (male), two pandas that were loaned by ...
Lung Yingtai, a famous Taiwanese writer and cultural critic, recently took to Facebook to post her views on the anti-extradition protests and protesters. In her view, if China deals with Hong Kong as an enemy by using force, it is not that Hong Kong has betrayed its homeland; on the contrary, it is the homeland that has ...
The protests in Hong Kong are said to have negatively affected Hong Kong’s economy. Several businesses have been showing losses for the past few weeks and are worried about Hong Kong’s economic future. While pro-Beijing supporters are pointing fingers at the protesters for messing up the economy, the fact is that it is the Chinese ...
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon believes that China is playing a dangerous game trying to curtail the rights of Hongkongers. In an interview with the YouTube channel “Zooming In with Simone Gao,” he said that the world is not willing to accept another Tiananmen Massacre. Hong Kong and China Steve Bannon warned that ...
At 7 p.m. on August 23, the Hong Kong people responded to an Internet users’ initiative to build a human chain nearly 40 miles long. The “Hong Kong Way” came to life outside 39 metro stations stretching from east to west and north to south. More than 210,000 people were estimated to have participated, joining ...
In one of the protests at Hong Kong International Airport, a violent clash erupted between the demonstrators and police officers. The incident shocked many people as it was one of the most brutal conflicts between the two sides since the protests began a couple of months back. What really happened The protesters had surrounded two ...
The Hong Kong protests have split the celebrities of the city in two. While one group is trying to play it safe by backing Beijing’s “One China” rhetoric or simply keeping quiet, the other camp is openly supporting the protesters and has strongly criticized the Chinese Communist Party for its crackdown on freedom-loving Hongkongers. Allying ...
Chinese social media users are venting their anger against Starbucks after the company’s Hong Kong store started giving out coffee in cups with pro-democracy slogans. Starbucks controversy The controversy started with a Chinese Weibo user who visited a Starbucks barista in the Tsim Sha Tsui region of Hong Kong. When the user received the coffee ...
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