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New docs reveal what really happened in Beijing, 1989

NEWLY UNEARTHED DOCUMENTS today reveal what really happened in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in 1989—how the protests were prepared, how teams caused them to escalate, and how they really came to an end. And they provide the most detailed account yet about one of the biggest hoaxes in modern history—one so successful that the perpetrators, an…

June 1, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

When every picture did tell a story

THIS WRITER HAD a nostalgic lunch yesterday with Martin Lee Chu-ming, Liu Kinming and others to celebrate a new book by top Hong Kong photographer Liu Heung Shing, known as H.S. H.S., who is now 70 years old, was born in Hong Kong, and educated in the United States but became a top photographer for…

June 10, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Seven things I got wrong: a journalist owns up

I GOT IT WRONG. I thought Vladimir Putin would stay on his side of the border. But nope, not correct at all. I. Got. It. Wrong. Journalists get thousands of things wrong in our careers, and in that regard, I consider myself the Chief of Sinners. We try to excuse ourselves by saying that…

February 27, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

New docs reveal what really happened in Beijing, 1989

When every picture did tell a story

Seven things I got wrong: a journalist owns up

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