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Jul 7 2009 5:07AM
Urumqi Massacre & Genocide

The CCP distracted people’s anger under its tyrannical rule by provoking racial hatred between Han Chinese and Uighur. The CCP produced another Massacre in Urumqi immediately after it incited bloody incident against Uighur in Guangdong...

Jul 6 2009 10:16AM
Ethnic tensions lead to more violence in China

The plight of the Uighurs – the much-persecuted, muslim ethnic majority in China’s distant north-western region of Xinjiang – was brought to the public’s attention this morning, and all for the wrong reasons. Getting reliable info from...

Jul 6 2009 8:20AM
Moonwalk this: rockets or rickets?

There was a fascinating footnote to last night's BBC4 programme, Man on the Moon , which told the story of the US space programme and the billions spent to put a man on the moon before the Soviets. On the eve of the Apollo 11 mission...

Jul 5 2009 2:58AM
Press for union freedom in the Gambia

Criticise Gordon Brown and you get lost in the crush. Criticise Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, President of the Gambia, and you, your colleagues and your union leadership get charged with sedition and slung in jail. That's what's...

Jul 3 2009 10:24AM
London 'Pride' Calling

The question of how free people really are to express themselves and their sexual orientation in particular is a complex one. In the UK at least it seems like a very long time ago that it was actually against the law to be gay although...