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Hongkongers should learn from how Britain treated the Gurkhas Tim I Gurung Captain Lachiman Gurung, a Gurkha who received the Victoria Cross, the British army’s highest honour, marks Veterans Day in London. Photo: AFP
Britain s recently adopted policy to grant Hongkongers with British National (Overseas) passports a pathway to citizenship in the UK seems to be a pretty generous offer. Indeed, many Hongkongers have already taken advantage of it.
But there s also something puzzling about this policy: it is the most interest the British have shown in Hong Kong s internal affairs since they handed the city back to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
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Top 10 Shocking Stories From People Who Should Be Dead
Everybody dies eventually. That’s just how life goes. But some people have stared Grim Reaper in the eye, gazed upon him unflinching, and lived to tell the tale. Even when everything went wrong, every possible scenario that should lead to your demise somehow, these people found a way.
Whether through pure skill and talent, timely help from others, absolute luck, or simply because the Grim Reaper was feeling lazy that day, these are the stories of 10 people who should be dead but aren’t.
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