The Bangladeshi government is apparently under pressure from some pro-Chinese high-ups to switch to the Chinese currency Yuan for foreign transactions.
Uyghurs throughout the world are denouncing a statement made by a delegation of thirty Islamic clerics and intellectuals led by Emirates scholar Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi on behalf of The World Muslim Communities Council (TWMCC), during a visit to Xinjiang this month, reported Bitter Winter, an Italy-based magazine on religious liberty and human rights.
then they arrested five of the executives at that newspaper. they frog marched them right out the front doors. apple daily was an independent pro-democracy newspaper, the last remaining independent paper operating in the city of hong kong, as of last june, following escalating crackdowns on journalism by the pro-chinese government. after that raid in june, authorities froze the assets of the newspaper, and then they started arresting not just executives but also journalists who worked for apple daily, so apple daily shut down. they had no assets, no way to pay people or fund their operations. their employees were being thrown in jail, and so the last pro-democracy paper in hong kong was forced to close. this was the scene outside the apple daily offices late on the final night of publication. these people gathers outside in