China promises to freeze the squeeze on Uyghur people
BEIJING (UCAN): Chinese authorities promised to freeze the squeeze on the Muslim Uyghur population, who have been blamed for fuelling violence in Xinjiang province over the past two years.
They promised that repressive measures would end, even though the fight against terrorism and separatism in the remote region will be renewed.
A call to Housing Authority for minority group-sensitive services
HONG KONG (SE): The Hong Kong Pakistani Concern Group on Public Housing visited the Housing Authority on November 6 to highlight to the staff the problems that people from minority groups face in accessing public housing, simply because they cannot read the writing on the wall.
Who are the scribes and Pharisees in the right of abode debate?
The recent judicial review for foreign domestic workers on their right of abode seems to have torn Hong Kong apart.
Newspaper columns make remarks, legislators express their views and groups rally, but the bulk of mainstream opinion has been against foreign domestic workers having the right to apply for abode.
