Some Australians were in no mood to celebrate the country’s national day on Sunday because they had long seen it as a reminder of colonial oppression. A few protesters took that antipathy a step further — by vandalizing statues to British settlers and an English king. The damage done in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra was…
Sixty-six Hermes handbags worth HK$10 million (US$1.3 million) have been stolen from a second-hand shop in a busy Hong Kong financial district, police have said. The force said it received a report at 7.54am on Saturday that three robbers broke into the shop at New World Tower on Queen’s Road in Central, smashed the glass…
I was saddened when a small group of Pomona College students in the United States recently barricaded themselves inside Carnegie Hall, causing significant damage and choosing violence over discussion. They were a minority in a group that included masked protesters, some later identified as students from other Claremont Colleges, a consortium of seven independent institutions…
Six Hong Kong police officers have been sentenced to up to 41 months in prison for framing a street sleeper for drug possession and destroying evidence of the attempted cover-up at a park four years ago. The District Court on Thursday jailed the four men and two women after finding them guilty of a total…