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Watchdog: Apple Daily trial typifies declining press freedom in Hong Kong

Voice of America 

washington — In the four years since Hong Kong enacted its national security law, the country's press freedom record is in free fall, according to media advocates.  More than 900 journalists have lost their jobs, several media outlets have closed or moved overseas, and some journalists, including pro-democracy Apple Daily publisher Jimmy Lai, are in prison.  "The Chinese and Hong Kong government's forced closure of Apple Daily and prosecutions of its owner and editors are very chilling, and they... Читать дальше...

UAAP: UP Fighting Maroons signs Gilas prospect Millora-Brown

Sports.inquirer.net 

University of the Philippines isn’t taking its last two runner-up finishes sitting down. The Maroons continued building up their talent cache, inking Gilas Pilipinas prospect Quentin Millora-Brown, who is not only trying to reconnect to a school he has roots in but also wants to link up with the national program. “We have been talking

Burning Questions: How did the Flames fare in free agency?

Calgary Herald 

On the latest episode of Burning Questions, Postmedia’s Rob Wong chats with Postmedia Calgary Flames writers Wes Gilbertson and Danny Austin about the Flames signing Yegor Sharangovich to a five-year contract extension, and how GM Craig Conroy did with the free agent signings of Ryan Lomberg, Anthony Mantha and Jake Bean.

Car bomb by police flats 'undermines peace talks'

BangkokPost.com 

An academic in Yala has criticised what he says is sluggish progress in the peace talks in the deep South following a car bomb outside police flats in this southern border province on June 30.