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Trump promised to free Jimmy Lai. Xi's visit is the time to do it.

I’ve spent many hours over the last few years thinking about a man I’ve never met, Jimmy Lai. A newspaperman, media mogul and democracy advocate, Lai, 78, has been languishing in a Hong Kong prison since 2020. As the chief executive of Index on Censorship, I have spent my working life documenting how authoritarian regimes silence...

Trump promised to free Jimmy Lai. Xi's visit is the time to do it.

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Kalimantan Air Quality Reaches Hazardous Levels, Says BMKG

Even Greenpeace Indonesia says Kalimantan's haze is "no longer fit to breathe" as Pontianak's air pollution reaches 20 times Jakarta's level.

  • Kalimantan's air quality reaches hazardous levels, per BMKG
  • PM2.5 concentrations averaged in very unhealthy/hazardous range
  • Forest and land fires likely cause of poor air quality

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