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Znet Article Tiwari: Kong Yee Sai Mau

Znet Article, December, 24 2005 Pranjal Tiwari
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  Sat Dec 17, Hong Kong—It’s 1:30 am in Hong Kong. We have just returned to the house after being in the Hong Kong streets all afternoon and evening in the most intense street battle that we have ever seen. We are taking turns sho...

Znet Article Tiwari: Paper Tiger, Rising Dragon

Znet Article, May, 19 2005 Pranjal Tiwari
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May 18 is annually celebrated as Flag Day in Haiti. It is a day for remembering the struggle that led to the creation of the “world’s first Black Republic”, and for celebrating its liberation from slavery and colonialism. T...

Znet Article Tiwari: Hong-Kong's Democracy Movement

Znet Article, May, 09 2005 Pranjal Tiwari
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[Author’s Note: This article was originally written in late November 2004 and published on the weblog In The Water . It was meant to provide some wider analysis on the mainstream democracy movement in Hong Kong that was particularly active...

Znet Article Tiwari: Real Men Pick on Pregnant Women

Znet Article, December, 19 2004 Pranjal Tiwari
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At a recent gathering of corporate and state managers in Thailand, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra described George Bush as a "good friend and a Texan." "We're both Texas cowboys," Thaksin added. Though Thailand hasn't invaded and occupied a...

Znet Article Tiwari: Letter to a Chicken

Znet Article, February, 13 2004 Pranjal Tiwari
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Several million pink slips of paper were recently discovered at the site of a disused chicken farm. Witnesses we interviewed say the messages were dropped by military aircraft apparently patrolling the area before a general quarantine was called d...

Znet Article Tiwari: All In The Timing

Znet Article, May, 26 2003 Pranjal Tiwari
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Timing is everything, as they say. The day before East Timor celebrated the anniversary of its independence from Indonesia, the Jakarta government launched an all-out attack on another independence movement, this time in Aceh, a northern Sumatran ...

Znet Article Tiwari: Fog of SARS

Znet Article, May, 03 2003 Pranjal Tiwari
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Much has been made in the press about the adverse macroeconomic effects of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), as it affects "market confidence", "projected GDP growth" and the like. Indeed, it was recently reported that some entity known ...

Znet Article Tiwari: Free the Liaoyang Four

Znet Article, January, 13 2003 Pranjal Tiwari
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An important court case for working people everywhere is about to be heard in China. Two days from now, organisers involved with massive labour-based protests in the country’s northeast last spring will go on trial, appearing on charges ...

Znet Article Tiwari: Demonstrations in Hong Kong

Znet Article, December, 17 2002 Pranjal Tiwari
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On a day of protest in Hong Kong, more than 63,000 people took to the streets in two demonstrations targetting two particularly odious government proposals. By far the larger march was the one later in the day, a 60,000-strong demonstration agai...

Znet Article Tiwari: Worse than Commodities

Znet Article, November, 19 2002 Pranjal Tiwari
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I recently had the pleasure of talking with Aurelio “Gi” Estrada, Education and Research Program head of the Hong Kong-based Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants. Among other topics, we discussed some of the history of migrant workers...

Znet Article Tiwari: 'Tell the truth or you will be killed'

Znet Article, November, 13 2002 Pranjal Tiwari
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 An old, despairing joke has made the rounds over the years in many parts of South Asia. It relates the story of a businessman whose wallet has disappeared. He reports the incident to his local police station, then goes home to lament his los...

Znet Article Tiwari: Article 23

Znet Article, October, 21 2002 Pranjal Tiwari
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The government of Hong Kong has recently announced its desire to enact, as soon as possible, a set of repressive new laws aimed at criminalizing such vagaries as "sedition, subversion, and treason". Passing the legislation, according to the territ...

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