The 1957 Pro-democracy activists, students and residents, co-organising more than a million people, converged on Tiananmen Square. The student hunger strikers who lay on hot sun, some of them refusing even water, quickly fell ill. #...

‘We’re sending a message of hope’ Junior Mayema was explaining to me why he’d taken the bold step of appearing in From the Same Soil , a new film that beautifully documents the experiences of three refugees in Cape Town. All three fled...

Duan Changlong (段昌隆)，Graduate of Qinghua University (admitted in 1984) Chemical Engineering Department. On the night of June 3, 1989, Duan left home on his bicycle, and encountered the martial law troops involved in a confrontation...

# 八九六四 # 八九六四二五 # 89june4 # 八九民主运动 25年前的今天（5月16日）学生绝食请愿进入第四天，由开始的3百人增加到3千人。前往天安门广场声援的各阶层人士多达几十万人。

The Indian elections are the largest voting exercise the world has ever seen. More than 550 million Indian voters have gone to the polls to elect a new government in the world’s largest democracy. The elections have been a potpourri of...