Hong Kong bookstore staff arrested for allegedly selling ‘seditious’ Jimmy
Lai biography, broadcaster reports
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Owner of Book Punch store and three staff accused of selling copies of a
biography of Jimmy Lai, a jailed pro-democracy activist and publisher
Hong Kong ...
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If you think you’ve got it tough living in America, just be glad you’re not going to be in Greece as that nation begins to confront the true reality of austerity.
ReplyDeleteFrom a 15 percent cut in public wages to cigarette and alcohol taxes to Social Security reductions and means testing, the Greek measures will instill pain, necessary though it may be, for years to come.