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A Wymondham man has shared of his upset after a flag flying for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee was stolen from his Market Place home.

When Salih Hudayar was born in the small city of Artux, East Turkestan, in May, 1993, the land of his birth had been under Chinese control for 44 years. A Uighur by birth, Hudayar was just seven years old when he and his family moved to the US in 2000, arriving as political refugees before settling in Oklahoma, where he went to school and eventually joined the US Reserve Officer Training Corps. Always aware of his background and family heritage, however, in 2017 Hudayar established the East Turk...

When he woke on Feb. 24, Arthur Kharytonov, the President of the Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine (LDLU), checked his phone. Overnight he had received 20 messages from Hong Kong Democracy leaders, a group he has supported since 2014, in his secondary role in politics as the main coordinator of Ukraine’s Free Hong Kong Center. Only after reading some of those messages did he learn, as he said himself “that the war [with Russia] had started” Confusion followed. “I checked the news, an...

The Witnessed Account of British Resident: John Dodd at Tamsui is a book essentially built around the diary of the British tea merchant and the hardships he faced as a result of a blockade by French forces taking part in the wider Sino-French War of the mid-1880s. A valuable record of the period, to any history buff it is just as valuable for the numerous French military maps included at the front of the book — many showing forts in and around the Keelung area that no longer appear on contemp...

The women’s national soccer team made its mark on the soccer world stage with a stellar performance at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian Cup in India last month and early this month, with fans at home and abroad increasingly adopting the nickname “Blue Magpies.” Surviving the group stage with a 5-0 win over Iran, the team qualified for a 10-team inter-confederation play-off tournament in February next year, where the Blue Magpies are to try to qualify for the FIFA Wome...