Three columnists at the Chinese-language daily that sacked a top editor last week have submitted blank columns in protest at the move.
The empty column spaces were run in Ming Pao’s print edition on Sunday but included an editor’s note justifying the controversial dismissal, which has raised concerns about a perceived decline in press freedom in the city.
Keung Kwok-yuen, Ming Pao’s former chief executive editor, was abruptly fired last Wednesday to cut costs, according to management.
She was described in this month's Vogue as the new 'It girl' of athletics. Lord Coe this week called her 'outstanding, the real deal'. And yet, if you uttered the name Keely Hodgkinson to most of the nation, they would probably reply: 'Keely who?'
The 21-year-old is already an Olympic and world silver medallist. She is arguably Britain's best bet for an individual gold medal at this year's World Championships, arriving in Budapest as the top-ranked 800metres runner.
Atop a sacred hill in Lima, Peruvian shamans scatter coca leaves and flower petals while a snake named Maria slithers over posters of world leaders including Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
It’s the time of year that the shamans beat drums, chant, blow smoke and drink a potent hallucinogenic brew to make their divinations for the 12 months ahead.
What did they see on the proverbial cards for 2023?
A Dalton, Ill., man was released on bond after police say he drove a stolen ATV into oncoming traffic then ran from officers.
Xavier Harding faces felony charges of possession with intent to deliver , second-degree theft and having no drug tax stamp, as well as multiple traffic-related misdemeanor charges.
Shortly before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, a Davenport police officer tried to stop a black ATV with no plates or headlights going the wrong way in the 5100 block of Welcome Way “recklessly with several vehicles into oncoming traffic,” an arrest affidavit says.
If you're not freaked out by the recent climate news, I don't know what to tell you. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's just-released report shows, we're nearly out of time to prevent disastrous, cataclysmic global warming and sea level rise. As far back as 2011, experts have emphasized that we can't shop our way out of this enormous problem — it will take government action to force profiting companies away from the activities leading to our planet's demise.