Helier Cheung
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Breaking news editor at The Washington Post.
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Love this story from our Seoul team on the K-pop-ification of the impeachment protests: With K-pop and light sticks, South Koreans demanded Yoon’s impeachment
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
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With K-pop and light sticks, South Koreans demanded Yoon’s impeachment
K-pop fans, many of them young women, were especially visible at the party-like protests that preceded the South Korean president’s impeachment.
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December 14, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Love this story from our Seoul team on the K-pop-ification of the impeachment protests: With K-pop and light sticks, South Koreans demanded Yoon’s impeachment
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Reposted by Helier Cheung
There were buildings like this in every Syrian city: pillars of a security state so pervasive that people said even the walls had ears. Long before prisoners reached the notorious jails, they were surveilled and interrogated in their neighborhoods: t.co/79NcTnYgkN
December 14, 2024 at 6:40 PM
There were buildings like this in every Syrian city: pillars of a security state so pervasive that people said even the walls had ears. Long before prisoners reached the notorious jails, they were surveilled and interrogated in their neighborhoods: t.co/79NcTnYgkN
Reposted by Helier Cheung
Ten years ago Hong Kong saw a political awakening. Now it's in the grip of Beijing that's erasing a decade of protests. But for many HKers the memory of a freer city defiantly lives on. My long read written with my colleagues Grace Tsoi, Vicky Wong and Joy Chang. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hong Kong: A decade of protest is now a defiant memory
The BBC speaks to Hongkongers whose hopes for a freer city have withered.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Ten years ago Hong Kong saw a political awakening. Now it's in the grip of Beijing that's erasing a decade of protests. But for many HKers the memory of a freer city defiantly lives on. My long read written with my colleagues Grace Tsoi, Vicky Wong and Joy Chang. www.bbc.com/news/article...