The dawn of a pandemic—as seen through the news and social media posts that vanished from China’s internet. LATE ON THE night of February 2, as her insomnia kicked in, a Beijing woman whom I’ll call Yue took out her phone and religiously clicked open WeChat and Weibo. Over the past […]
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More than a billion Muslims anticipate ‘sad and quiet’ Ramadan in coronavirus isolation
Erwin Renaldi and Max Walden Posted 28 minutes agoSun 19 Apr 2020, Copied, compiled & edited by George W Rehder 19/04/2020 Some 1.8 billion Muslims around the globe will celebrate the most important month of the Islamic calendar very differently this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Key points: Communal […]
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