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Amitav Ghosh’s Reckoning With Opium
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIt takes some daring to choose opium as your historical protagonist. The milky sap of the poppy flower has taken so many forms across so many centuries...
Ramaswamy says in GOP debate that we're in 'modern opium war' on overdoses in Alabama, US
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDuring the Republican presidential primary debate in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday evening, biotech...
Timeline: Hong Kong under 25 years of Chinese rule
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe following are key events in the history of Hong Kong, which marked the 25th anniversary of its handover from British to Chinese rule on Friday. China...
Economic might and resources are keys to battling China
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt’s no state secret that China’s Xi Jinping is a bad guy. His Communist values differ wildly from...
Why is China denying Hong Kong was ever a British colony?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoChinese and Hong Kong flags on Friday mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China...
Drugs, wars and international intrigue on display at Forbes House Museum in Milton
Patriot Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMILTON − The opium that flooded 19th-century China destroyed lives and unraveled society under the...
UPDATE 4-As he seizes Ukrainian lands, Putin is silent on war failings
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoIt was billed as a historic ceremony to expand Russia's borders, but President Vladimir Putin was in no hurry to get the treaties signed. Before inking documents to annex four regions of Ukraine ...
Xi Jinping’s Historians Can’t Stop Rewriting China’s Imperial Past
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoCHINA NEWS China’s Communist Party often speaks proudly about what it claims to be 5,000 years of...
Opinion: America's movement toward true multi-ethnicity has been filled with resistance
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoI grew up in China where I was part of an ethnic minority. Many of the people there called us...
Hong Kong airline terminates flight attendants accused of mocking passengers' English and saying...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCathay Pacific Boeing 747.LAURENT FIEVET/Getty Images A voice recording apparently showing Cathay...
