Inside the Hong Kong protests
Hong Kong protests; Aztec happiness; Ivan Golunov Russian journalist; Sri Lanka love across the divide; Iran's child brides. With David Amanor.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have been demonstrating against a proposed law that would allow extradition to China for certain crimes. Things came to a head on Wednesday outside the Legislative Council: pepper spray, rubber bullets and teargas were used against protesters throwing all manner of missiles, including umbrellas. Martin Yip of 91热爆 Chinese was there.
An Aztec recipe for happiness
91热爆 Mundo鈥檚 Ana Pais has been looking into Aztec attitudes towards achieving happiness from five hundred years ago, and finding remarkable similarities with our beliefs today.
The Russian journalist who became the story
Within the space of a few days, Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov found himself arrested on drug charges - and then released. His lawyers claimed that the drugs were planted. 91热爆 Russian鈥檚 Svetlana Reiter has worked with him, and explains what鈥檚 been going on.
Sri Lankan love across the divide
91热爆 Sinhala's Suneth Perera's Crossing Divides piece celebrates an unusual love story between a former Tamil Tiger and a Sinhalese Civil Defence Force recruit.
Iran鈥檚 child brides
Why do so many marriages in Iran involve child brides? Taraneh Stone of 91热爆 Monitoring tells us about the pressures on young girls and their families to agree to marriages with much older men.
Image: workers outside Wan Chai Police station, Hong Kong protesting the extreme violence by the police, June 2019
Credit: Stephen J. Boitano/LightRocket via Getty Images
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