Iain Marlow
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Bloomberg @business diplomatic correspondent in DC via Hong Kong, New Delhi. Cyclist. @globeandmail @SOASpolitics alum. Views: own. Tips? imarlow1 @bloomberg .net
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Today I started a new role at Bloomberg's Washington DC bureau, where I'll be covering diplomacy and national security -- including the State Department, and all things foreign policy in DC. Excited to get started. So please reach out if you'd like to chat imarlow1
@bloomberg
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Spoke to several Hong Kong bankers, finance and insurance folks about why they came out to protest today. Almost all said police violence this week. Several mentioned violent scenes at CUHK. Said they wanted to show support for students on the front lines.
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Indian government advises TV networks not to broadcast anything that "promotes anti-national attitudes." In less than a week, India's government and security forces have already killed more protesters and taken more restrictive measures than Hong Kong and Beijing did in 6 months
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Amazing that India's diplomats are busy responding to newspaper articles in foreign countries like this (and blocking social media accounts) at the height of the world's worst outbreak, especially as other countries offer medical aid.
Urge
@australian
to publish the rejoinder to set the record straight on the covid management in India and also refrain from publishing such baseless articles in future.
@cgisydney
@CGIPerth
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So, India has no Covid-19 "community transmission" and wasn't invaded by China? Gotcha. Everyone move along.
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This story is so bizarre -- even for India -- that I have nothing to add: A Hindu nun accused of bomb blasts that killed six people, faked breast cancer, claimed she beat cancer by drinking *cow urine*, & is running in the election for India's ruling BJP.
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India's government is encouraging citizens to learn about their controversial citizenship law from a bearded mystic who admitted he hasn't read the legislation and recently tweeted about how corpses can walk.
Do hear this lucid explanation of aspects relating to CAA and more by
@SadhguruJV
.
He provides historical context, brilliantly highlights our culture of brotherhood. He also calls out the misinformation by vested interest groups.
#IndiaSupportsCAA
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Um, India and Pakistan are literally ringing each other's doorbells at night and then running away.
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“What we can see is a pattern of escalation whereby police tactics have functioned to radicalize the population,”
@cliffordstott
tells
@business
for our story: ‘Everyone Is Angry’: How police aggression fuels Hong Kong protests, by
@BlakeSchmidt
and I:
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Unbelievable that India's capital is seeing violent anti-Muslim riots during the visit of a US president. What does it say about India's political stability, law and order capacity and governance during the Modi era?
As houses are being burned to the ground in Khazoori Khas in North East Delhi- there is NO police present in the area.
This is 3rd day of
#DelhiRiots
. Why is this still on?
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Someone should try and explain to SBI the difference between a newspaper ad and a billboard.
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It's amazing that in India you can be arrested for a Facebook post criticizing Narendra Modi, but not for giving a speech -- widely available online -- that prompted Hindu-Muslim riots in the country's national capital during the high-profile visit of a US president.
“Kapil Mishra should be in jail,” said Rupesh Bathla, a businessman who says he has known Mr. Mishra since they were teenagers. “He started communal riots. He planted hatred in other people’s hearts.”
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Wow. According to the Hong Kong government, "expressing an objection in principle to the enactment of the National Security Law" means you don't uphold the Basic Law, and can't be a member of the Legislative Council.
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A woman beside me in Central was holding a Harrod's bag in one arm and put her other hand up in the air to signal the five demands.
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Just saw the Trevor Noah bit on India-Pakistan. India = not amused. "Not only did he fail to understand the severity of the situation between the two neighbouring countries, Noah took racist and stereotypical jibes at the Indian military forces."
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The appeals from Indians for oxygen and hospital beds on social media are harrowing and understandable. But they also speak volumes about the unreliability of Indian institutions in times of crisis. You simply can't rely on the system, so you need someone's mobile number.
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Just imagine how many inaugurations these flyovers would have required if they were built in India.
Don't get lost in this flyover in mountainous Guizhou Province
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On Twitter at least, it already looks like India is at war -- with itself, though, not Pakistan.
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THREAD: In Hong Kong, we've all been isolating/social-distancing for nearly two months. It wasn't perfect by any means. But Hong Kong started early and has so far managed to contain cases to around ~150, despite incredible exposure to China.
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Had a brief encounter with a BJP minister today.
He said because of Modi, there is only one word that matters in Indian elections now: Development.
I asked him about the word "termite," which Amit Shah just used to describe Bangladeshi migrants.
He changed the subject.
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Peak Bengal: Book-loving groom stresses he will not accept dowry as he marries a music student who also loves to read. Family, which consists of teachers, travels to a College Street bookshop in Kolkata and buys them 1,000 books as a wedding gift.
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I spent a lot of time talking to smart people about what will happen to Hong Kong in 2047 for
@business
. We also spoke to protesters about what they fear most about that date. Here's what they all told me.
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New Delhi appears to be in the throes of anti-Muslim riots on a day when it is ranked by far the most polluted city on Earth and as President Donald Trump pays a state visit. Unbelievable.
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This was Peel Street in Hong Kong last night. I know the cases are down, but I do believe that might be more than 8 people gathered for a common purpose.
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I'm confused. Why is The Hindu, one of India's best newspapers, not using the terms Hindu and Muslim to describe a riot during a US presidential visit?
"...members of the majority community thrashed those from the minority community."
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Chinese media are now citing India as example to justify censoring the internet.
"The internet shutdown in India has once again proved that the necessary regulation of the internet is a reasonable choice of sovereign countries based on national interests."
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Really unbelievable what's happening in Kashmir.
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To put this another way: India accidentally killed more of its own troops during a brief clash with Pakistan earlier this year than Pakistan did, even as India's politicians went out on the campaign trail boasting of air strikes.
During the middle of its brief clash with Pakistan, India accidentally shot down its own helicopter, killing six air force personnel and one civilian on the ground, according to
@manupubby
, after an officer ordered a ground-to-air missile fired.
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It's amazing to me that Modi can go out and flag off a new train a day after the Kashmir terror attack, and then address a rally and BJP party workers as Imran Khan goes on TV to address his nation about the prospect of war. Remarkable.
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It's worth remembering Hong Kong medical workers and activists actually protested very early on to make the govt (which was concerned about economy) take stricter actions. They did so cautiously, with masks, but still risked the virus to do so.
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One of the fundamentally broken things about Hong Kong's current Covid situation is that it has neither the scale/labor force/compliance of the mainland to do a draconian lockdown, nor the democratic accountability to ensure balanced, reasonable public health measures.
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Good thing India's prime minister built a massive "Statue of Unity" to counteract this sort of hatred. Oh, I see. This is an official BJP account. Nevermind.
Their is lot of similarities between Congress & Tippu
Both were anti Hindu
Both believed in suppressing Hindus
Both were responsible for Killing of Hindus
Both believed in minority appeasement
Both wanted to divide Hindus
No wonder Congress is worshipping tyrant Tippu.
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Image outside of
@appledaily_hk
HQ in Hong Kong shows the large number of police and vehicles assembled before their search of the building -- which comes after founder
@JimmyLaiApple
is arrested under the national security law.
Our story here:
#HongKongPolice
raiding the Apple Daily
@appledaily_hk
building
#HongKong
#PressFreedom
#NationalSecurityLaw
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Me to hotel manager in regional Indian city at 11:45 pm: "You told me the wedding music would stop at 11 pm."
Him: "Sir, this is culture."
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From "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" to "Recover Hong Kong, resist the virus of our times!" Our
@BloombergAsia
piece on how the virus is a new battlefront in the Hong Kong protests.
So much so the popular protest slogan has become “Recover Hong Kong, resist the virus of our times”
#hongkongprotests
#coronavirus
via
@bpolitics
@iainmarlow
@laiyanhoeric
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What's happening to the Hong Kong protests amid the
#2019_nCov
outbreak? Lots of people were asking. So
@natlungfy
and I spoke to protest organizers and others. Our piece for
@business
:
Hong Kong Protesters, Now on Pause, See Virus Fueling Movement
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World's three most polluted cities at the moment are all in India.
And, you guessed it, Delhi is the worst city for air pollution on Earth.
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You thought India's election was complicated? Indonesia is holding polls with nearly 200 million voters on 17,000 islands in *one day* (not six weeks). From Bloomberg's
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Perfect. RT
@ScottFilmCritic
: If you only see one mismatched headline and photograph today, make it this one.
http://t.co/1r7xF9lRk1
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Under Modi, India has only slipped further behind geopolitical rival China. My data-rich analysis for
@bpolitics
, with plenty of insightful comments from leading experts.
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How Beijing’s takedown of a pro-democracy newspaper is silencing a financial capital. My deep dive on the demise of Hong Kong's Apple Daily is this week's cover story for
@BW
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Also, the inability of Indian govt/institutions to plan ahead is striking once again. They only kick into gear in midst of an unfolding crisis. It's like seeing states/center bicker year after year over Indian air pollution only as the skies darken in Oct/Nov, when it's too late
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NEW: In Hong Kong, nearly 50% of foreign firms in a new survey said they planned to fully relocate their operations or partially relocate staff as a result of the city's tight Covid restrictions. The latest sign of Hong Kong's decline as a business hub.
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Hong Kong is marking national security education day today in a number of ways, including bulletin board competitions and letting kids get up close and personal with... this... at the Hong Kong Police College. w/
@KariSoo1
@ChloecLoNews
@stegersaurus
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Many Indians praised a former foreign minister for responding on Twitter to all sorts of consular complaints years ago, even though her very involvement highlighted the ministry's bureaucratic inaction on a host of files related to ordinary Indians low down the priority list.
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"People in Central are cold blooded, to be honest, they care about making money," one well dressed 40-year-old woman told me. "But right now, we want to show the Hong Kong government that we care."
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Interesting to see these campaigners out on Hong Kong's streets today. Also, a booth for the Democratic Party.
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The hamster culling is truly the icing on the cake of Hong Kong's increasingly degraded global brand in an era of trying to match China's Covid-zero approach. A tipping point in terms of ordinary friends outside of HK just messaging me with links/laughing emojis.
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Is the Shanghai lockdown Xi's biggest crisis yet?
'Pets beaten to death. Parents forced to separate from their children. Elderly folks unable to access medical care. Locked-up residents chanting “we want to eat” and “we want freedom.”'
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Pragya Thakur, the self-styled Hindu holy woman who was accused of bomb blasts targeting Muslims and who praised Gandhi's assassin on the campaign trail, is leading in her constituency against a senior Congress leader in Bhopal.
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On India's jump in the ease of doing business ranking, important to note World Bank release says it only looked at Delhi and Mumbai.
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A bit of personal news!
After three wonderful years covering India and South Asia for
@bpolitics
, I'm excited to be relocating to our Hong Kong bureau. I'll be reporting on regional politics, foreign policy, trade and security.
Feel free to reach out: Email info in my bio.
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Sri Lanka's Muslims had warned security officials about the group blamed for deadly Easter attack, handing over documents, names, videos, contact details.
"They have sat on it. That’s the tragedy," one Muslim leader told me for
@bpolitics
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During the middle of its brief clash with Pakistan, India accidentally shot down its own helicopter, killing six air force personnel and one civilian on the ground, according to
@manupubby
, after an officer ordered a ground-to-air missile fired.
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Hong Kong's pro-China political elite get a taste of their own strict Covid policies after forcing them on ordinary residents for two years. Guess what? They found it arbitrary, inflexible and pointless, even as the system bent to accomodate them.
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The news never stops in India. Here's to all the presswallas out there!
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"Fight for freedom! Stand with Hong Kong!" Huge crowd in Central today.
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Hong Kong police chief warns the organizer of some of the city's biggest protests that it may have violated the national security law... before it was actually enacted?
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I can't believe it but Modi's first press conference as prime minister on Indian soil ended without him fielding a single question. Amit Shah answered everything. Then they got up and left. Remarkable.
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As a comparison, Hong Kong and NYC roughly same size. HK has about 150 cases and 4 deaths after nearly 8 weeks of the virus. NYC implemented distancing nearly 1 1/2 months later -- and already has nearly 500 cases.
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A former BJP politician and the current sitting governor of the state of Meghalaya is apparently tweeting that Indians should effectively boycott the state of Kashmir and Kashmiri businesses elsewhere in India.
An appeal from a retired colonel of the Indian Army: Don’t visit Kashmir,don’t go to Amarnath for the next 2 years. Don’t buy articles from Kashmir emporia or Kashmiri tradesman who come every winter. Boycott everything Kashmiri.
I am inclined to agree
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Daily reminder of India's air pollution crisis: These blackened nasal filters are from my partner's yoga session this morning. It lasted just *one hour.* She was inside, with no air purifier, while outside the AQI was about 180. This is just a regular day.
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Protecting India's borders. Doing yoga on camels. The Border Security Force does it all.
#yoga
#YogaDay
#IDY
#IDY2019
#YogaDay2019
“योग: कर्मसु कौशलम्”
#जैसलमेर
#थार #मरूस्थल स्थित कर्मभूमि में योगाभ्यास रत सीमा प्रहरी
#BSF
#Borderman
#सीमा #प्रहरी
#जीवनपर्यंतकर्त्तव्य
#HappyHealthyForce
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Awful, awful news.
@FCCNewDelhi
once gathered Danish and other amazing Reuters photogs after their spectacular photos of the Rohingya crisis won the Pulitzer. A huge loss. Condolences to all that knew him. See some of his work here:
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An Indian cabinet minister in the country's most populous state says protesters should be buried alive.
Is that not a violation of Section 505 of the Indian Penal Code?
"Will bury alive those who are against CAA"
U.P Minister Raghuraj Singh makes an insensitive comment at a public gathering
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Say what you will about Indian police, but they are very quick to respond to biryani-related queries.
"His tweet prompted officials to visit the Ikea store and take samples of different dishes served in its restaurant."
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"I wish I had reporters like that... Where do you find these reporters?" Trump says, as he's asked a question from India Today at the Modi meeting. And then the network puts his praise in a promo ad. That's quite remarkable.
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It's astounding that Hong Kong is still banning airlines for importing 4 or more Covid cases per week when the city is seeing upwards of 30,000 (reported) cases every day.
⚠️🛫🇸🇬
Singapore Airlines banned from operating passenger flights from Singapore to Hong Kong for 14 days starting tomorrow.
Blackout dates: March 17th - March 30th 2022
Airline ban of 2022: 43
Ban trigger: 4 passengers positive within a 7 day period
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Many mentioned police violence as a reason for coming out today. "They're very unprofessional," said one 30-something auditor. "They're making more people come out and making people more violent."
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What India's economy truly needs: another 5-star hotel event in which people talk about how great the Indian economy will be in the future.
India wants to launch its own version of Davos, to carve out a bigger global role for itself via
@markets
@bibhu_pradhan
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People have asked me on Delhi recently why I'm still wearing a mask or using nasal filters "even in summer." This is why. The air pollution is still off the charts.
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Good news: Tested negative for Omicron (with expensive private test). Ready to fly back to Hong Kong from Canada after first trip outside the city in two years.
Bad news: Your Air Canada flight has been banned by the Hong Kong government, a day before departure.
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China's blocked scores of fleeing Hong Kongers from accessing their retirement savings.
@business
story with
@DeniseWee1
@ShawnaKwan
@kiuyanwong
@ecadman
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Amazing also that 1) There is no point number 1, and the letter starts on point number 2, and 2) the letterhead on this formal missive has an email address scribbled out and added in by pen (something I doubt the Indian bureaucracy would accept if submitted by ordinary folks)
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Additionally, it's somewhat to surprising to me that it's actually news for doctors -- in 2019 -- to come out and say drinking cow urine doesn't cure cancer.
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Ah, a Hindu nationalist group is shooting a gun at an effigy of Gandhi (which apparently oozed blood) and garlanding a statue of his assassin. Carry on.
Hindu Mahasabha leader shoots
#MahatmaGandhi
’s effigy; garlands Nathuram Godse
#MartyrsDay
Download the ET App:
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Tagore has dope sunglasses. (Something I didn't think I would ever say...)
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The world’s fastest growing economy has the world’s most toxic air. My deep dive on India's air pollution for
@bpolitics
@business
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India is beating China at vaccine diplomacy, winning influence across the developing world and ensuring millions get inoculated sooner. Big
@business
collab w/
@archchaudhary
@KariSoo1
@adevnath
@FaseehMangi
@bylijing
and others across Asia.
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Our rolling update on Hong Kong is here:
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One by one, many Hong Kongers I have gotten accustomed to interviewing and speaking to about the city's politics and future have fled into exile or been arrested.
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As Indian government continues to bar foreign reporters from Kashmir, diplomats ushered in on an official trip appear to be discussing the state's economic situation under silver chandeliers.
We (22 foreign envoys) are interacting with the traders, businesswomen & entrepreneurs in Srinagar about the status of business & tourism in J&K on the sideline of our tour to this beautiful valley.
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Looks like Canada is skillfully handling East Asia... with Justin Trudeau mistakenly referring to Japan as China... twice ... alongside Shinzo Abe. (From a CBC article.)
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How China's national security law forever changed Hong Kong in just one year. Our
@business
analysis:
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Bloomberg playing it straight with it's description of Hong Kong's confusing-as-ever approach to social distancing restrictions. "The scientific logic ... remains unclear."
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The government of India recommends people "instill two drops of sesame oil in each nostril daily in the morning" to help prevent the spread of the
#coronavirus
.
Advisory for
#CoronaVirus
Homoeopathy for Prevention of Corona virus Infections
Unani Medicines useful in the symptomatic management of Corona Virus infection
Details here:
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On my flight from HK to Toronto, I chatted with a couple in front of us (who kindly gave us stickers for our daughter) about why they were leaving for good. Even though they didn't have jobs lined up, they didn't want their young daughter to go through the changed school system
An exodus of expatriates and locals from Hong Kong is poised to intensify in 2022, as policy makers continue their crackdown on civil society via
@markets
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Modi completely dodged the WSJ reporter's specific questions on religious intolerance and freedom of speech with broad references to the constitution and democracy.
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NEW: Hong Kong Won’t Reopen to World Until Mid-2022, Lam Adviser Says. From me for
@business
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Interesting to see
@Uber
engaging in this type of gender stereotyping in India, of all places, given criticism of company lately
"Order on uberEATS and let your wife take a day off from the kitchen"
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The party that just crushed Narendra Modi's party in Delhi (after a bruising and extremely divisive campaign) reaches for emotive Bollywood references.
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To all my friends and anyone reading this in Hong Kong, I wish you the best through this outbreak, and know that you will take care of yourself and others as you all soldier through. The city is still full of resilient, resourceful and amazing people, despite all that's happened.
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As some have pointed out: Indian journalists traveling to Pakistan have been able to interview Pakistan PM
@ImranKhanPTI
, while no one has been able to do a real interview w/ their own Indian PM since he came to office.
Indian journalists can meet the Pakistan PM and ask him questions but can't do the same with their own PM. 😀
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Truly stunning. In the midst of a raging pandemic, with thousands dying every day, Modi's party is promising vaccines... if you vote his party into power in Bengal.
Always eye-opening to see state-level campaigning tactics on Twitter, among an audience they weren't intended for.
As soon as BJP government comes to power in West Bengal, COVID-19 vaccine will be provided free of cost to everyone.
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Instead, over the course of two years of Beijing eroding the city's democracy and local politics, Hong Kong's ruling class has been completely severed from the people, and chained ever-more tightly to performative acts to signal fealty to China, rather than its own residents.
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Of all the stark differences between Singapore and Hong Kong as they diverged on the pandemic, SG's steady, confident public health messaging, including big picture exit strategy, has stood out to me. In contrast, HK officials sound panicked, reactionary, always on the back foot.
“The vaccine and booster have turned a potentially life-threatening disease to a mild one – a bad sore throat,” wrote Ng Eng Hen, in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
99.7 % of Singapore's 12,000 covid cases are mild or asymptomatic
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Indian newspapers really hit a boundary or two in their attempt to analyze the budget solely through cricket analogies.
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