The trading of stock in Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy media group was halted Monday, days after authorities froze the assets of its jailed owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law. The announcement came the same day Lai — who is already in jail — pleaded guilty alongside nine other activists to “unlawful […]
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US firm to stop selling China equipment for Uighur ethnic minority DNA database
US biotechnology manufacturer Thermo Fisher on Thursday announced it would stop selling to China equipment used to create a DNA database of the country’s Uighur minority. Since 2016, there have been regular reports of Chinese authorities taking blood samples in the Xinjiang region. Xinjiang is home to most of China’s Uighur ethnic minority and has […]