Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong jailed for 13-1/2 mths for 2019 anti-government protest

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'I know the coming days will be tougher, we will hang in there,' Joshua Wong shouted after the sentence was read out.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed 10 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore as of noon on Tuesday , taking the country’s total to 58,228.China has doubled down on its criticism of Australia after refusing to remove a tweet featuring a digital illustration of an Australian soldier appearing to murder a child in Afghanistan and accusing the Australian government of using the row to divert attention from alleged “atrocities” by Australian soldiers.

A former Hong Kong grocer has been sentenced to 16 months in jail for threatening to kill a stolen poodle if the owner did not pay a HK$40,000 ransom.Lau Tsz-kit, 24, told his blackmail victim that he would throw the nine-month-old dog into the sea or chop the animal up in the absence of swift payment, behaviour the magistrate called “despicable”.West Kowloon Court heard on Tuesday that Coffee the poodle was stolen from the 37-year-old owner’s shop in Sham Shui Po at about 1am on September 5.

 

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