November 19, 20240 Comments

Who are the campaigners jailed in controversial national security trial?

BBC Forty-five people are due to be sentenced on Tuesday A court on Tuesday handed out jail sentences for some of Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy icons, including Joshua Wong and Benny Tai, in a controversial national security case. They are part of a group known as the Hong Kong 47 who were charged three years ago in a crackdown under the national security law (NSL) imposed by China. Two of

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November 11, 20240 Comments

The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres

Julie Bolthouse Julie Bolthouse is opposing new data centre planning applications in Northern Virginia Environmental campaigner Julie Bolthouse points out that Northern Virginia has the world’s largest concentration of data centres. This is not something she is thrilled about. “We’re the Wall Street of the data centre industry,” says Ms Bolthouse, who is a director of local Virginian charity and campaign group Piedmont Environmental Council. Data centres are vast warehouses

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