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Downtown Hong Kong waterfront. Photo by 蓝茶 Bluetea on Pexels, used under Pexels licence. This post first appeared in The Hong Konger on July 2, 2024. The Hong Konger is an independent global English-language platform that explores Hong Kong identity and the discourse of the diaspora through rich and diverse content about society, politics, business, culture and lifestyle. This edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. “Exile is a heavy word,” I told my friend when she asked if I considered myself an exile. She urged me not to label myself as su...
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A non-league team as recently as 2009. Zero experience whatsoever in the top-flight. A head coach that was formerly a coach at high school level. Currently four points clear on top of the J.League 1 table. Few have came to match Leicester City's fairytale title-winning season in 2015-16, but the story of Machida Zelvia might as well surpass that of the Foxes. Saturday's 4-0 win over Jubilo Iwata meant that Machida maintained their healthy distance over second-placed Sanfrecce Hiroshima, who edged out Nagoya Grampus 2-1 on the same day, while at the same time taking advantage of third-placed Ka...
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An intriguing matchup has been served in the 2024/25 AFC Champions League group stages as Indonesian champions Persib Bandung will go head-to-head against Thailand's Port FC, the current club of Indonesia national team captain Asnawi Mangkualam. Both sides were drawn into Group F of the competition's East Zone, with China's Zhejiang FC and Singapore's Lion City Sailors completing the quartet. Former PSM Makassar man Asnawi completed his move to Port in the second half of the 2023/24 season, after spending two years in South Korea with Ansan Greeners and Jeonnam Dragons. Despite being often uti...
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Chinese outfit Shandong Taishan secured their place in the league stage of the 2024/25 AFC Champions League Elite after defeating Thai giants True Bangkok United 4-3 in a tense penalty shootout during their Preliminary Stage 2 match on Tuesday at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium. After a hard-fought 1-1 draw over 120 minutes, Shandong triumphed in the penalty shootout to confirm their entry into Asia's premier club football competition. Bangkok United, on the other hand, will drop down to the 2024/25 AFC Champions League Two group stages. The Chinese side started brightly, with Portugue...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attendance at NATO's 75th annual summit in Washington once again underlined the fundamental ways in which Ankara seeks to undermine the alliance’s vital security interests. NATO is a military alliance, consisting of 32 countries, which came into existence in 1950, with the premier mission to counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union. While this alliance has historically been fairly unified, Ankara is pursuing a strategy of hedging against NATO, thereby endangering the group's efforts to mitigate the security challenges of great pow...
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Image via Canva Pro. China controls over 75 percent of Tajikistan’s output of gold and for the last 30 years, it has remained the biggest foreign investor in the country’s struggling economy. There are currently 40 known gold deposits in the country with an estimated 500 tons of total gold resources — much of which has remained unexplored. The government of Tajikistan has strategically focused on increasing mining production for the three decades since its independence in 1991. This is because 93 percent of its territory consists of mountainous areas that contain more than 50 types of minerals...
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Japan international and future Mainz 05 signing Kaishu Sano has been arrested along with two other men in connection to a sexual assault on a 30-year old woman at a hotel in Tokyo on Wednesday morning. 23-year-old Kaishu, who earned his first cap for Japan last November, and two men in their 20s are accused of collaborating in a sexual assault in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward between 2 am and 4:30 am on Sunday. Tokyo police have not disclosed how the three responded to the allegations. The woman, in her 30s, contacted law enforcement immediately after the alleged assault. Officers located the three men ...
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On the streets of Chinatown in Pusan, South Korea. Photo by Ludi Baikala, used with permission. Online independent media Ludi Baikala (People of Baikal) published a long read by Sofia Sukhonos about the life of illegal immigrants from Russia in South Korea. Global Voices translated and shortened the article, and edited for clarity. It is republished with permission from Ludi Baikala. Each year, the number of illegal immigrants in South Korea increases. By March 2024, 419,000 foreigners were living in the country without official permission, among a total population of 52 million. This is twice...
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FC Tokyo have broken their own attendance record when a bumper crowd witnessed the Gasmen's 2-0 win over Albirex Niigata in Saturday's J.League 1 action at the National Stadium in Tokyo. Around 57,889 people flocked the stands of the National Stadium to witness FC Tokyo record their 10th win of the season, which cemented the Gasmen's position in the top half of the J1 table. FC Tokyo's previous record attendance was made last season in a match against Tamagawa Clasico rivals Kawasaki Frontale where 56,705 people spectated the match at the National Stadium. The match itself served as a farewell...
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A Nissan leaf electric vehicle operating as a taxi in Rio de Janeiro. Image from Wikipedia license CC BY-SA 3.0 Brazil has the sixth-highest greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, with transport alone responsible for around 16 percent of the country's total emissions. One of the main reasons for this is the significant consumption of diesel and gasoline. Research shows that electric vehicles (EVs), despite requiring more energy to manufacture due to their batteries, produce significantly less carbon emission over their lifetimes compared to gasoline-powered vehicles. Because of this difference in...
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