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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Social media giant Twitter on Thursday launched an emoji for the Milk Tea Alliance, a global online pro-democracy movement that has united anti-Beijing campaigners in Hong Kong and Taiwan with protesters in Thailand, Myanmar and beyond.
FILE PHOTO: The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Activists welcomed the announcement of the emoji - a white cup set against a background of three colours representing different shades of milk tea in Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan - for the first anniversary of the movement.
Thursday, 08 Apr 2021 03:38 PM MYT
A mobile phone displays an internet meme of a growing online movement called Milk Tea Alliance to show solidarity between Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong, in this illustration taken on April 15, 2020. Reuters pic
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BANGKOK, April 8 ― Social media giant Twitter today launched an emoji for the Milk Tea Alliance, a global online pro-democracy movement that has united anti-Beijing campaigners in Hong Kong and Taiwan with protesters in Thailand, Myanmar and beyond.
Activists welcomed the announcement of the emoji ― a white cup set against a background of three colours representing different shades of milk tea in Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan ― for the first anniversary of the movement.
Twitter rolls out Milk Tea Alliance emoji as movement gains momentum
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Twitter on Thursday introduced an emoji for the Milk Tea Alliance.
Milk Tea Alliance is a global online pro-democracy movement that has united anti-Beijing campaigners in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Activists welcome the announcement of the emoji for the first anniversary of the movement.
Twitter on Thursday introduced an emoji - a white cup set against a background of three colours representing different shades of milk tea in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Taiwan - for the Milk Tea Alliance.
Milk Tea Alliance is a global online pro-democracy movement that has united anti-Beijing campaigners in Hong Kong and Taiwan with protesters in Thailand, Myanmar, and beyond.
Milk Tea Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-democracy activists
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image captionThe movement has united activists from locations including Hong Kong and Myanmar
Twitter has launched a new emoji for the Milk Tea Alliance - a movement uniting Asian pro-democracy activists.
The alliance has brought together anti-Beijing protesters in Hong Kong and Taiwan with pro-democracy campaigners in Thailand and Myanmar.
The emoji, a white cup set against three different shades of a popular regional tea, marks a year since the #MilkTeaAlliance hashtag started.
One target is Chinese dominance, and Beijing says it is full of biases .
What is the Milk Tea Alliance?