Category: news commentary

Edwin Law  2022-06 n mid-April 2022, Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest businessman and entrepreneur, and Twitter’s board of directors reached a preliminary agreement on a $44 billion acquisition plan. Musk proposed the acquisition less than a month ago and finally got the seemingly improbable deal within a week. However, this acquisition proposal has caused a lot of controversy from all over the world. The rich buying media companies happens quite often in recent history. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the super-rich owning a newspaper is like holding a personal megaphone. One famous example is News Corp, owned by Rupert Murdoch, controlling hundreds of news and media

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Author: Kenneth Li “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I give not as the world gives.  Let not your hearts be troubled, and let not be afraid.” (John 14:27) At the beginning of the new year, I wish you all peace, joy, health and blessings in 2022! “Happy New Year, End to the Pandemic soon !” When relatives and friends bid farewell to the old year and exchange blessings of the New Year, I also would like to wish everyone a happy new year. Anxiety and distress caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic has deeply enveloped the world. It has been 2 years since the

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By: Timothy Tin According to a BBC report, “since 2012, approximately 5 million Afghans fled their homeland and were unable to return, some without homes within the Afghan border, while others fled to neighboring countries to seek shelter” The number of displaced Afghans is ranked as the world’s top third most number of displaced refugees. When the American troops planned to withdraw its forces on August 31, 2021, Afghans were facing the imminent choice between life and death in the great escape of the end times. Those who boarded departing planes from Afghanistan were escorted down the path to peace and stability, but those who could not manage

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By: Helen Man In August 2021, the United States completely withdrew from Afghanistan, ending the 20-year-old war. President Biden claimed that the withdrawal from Afghanistan would not look the same as the withdrawal from Vietnam; no one would be dragged off the roof of the US embassy; no Americans nor Americans’ friends would be left behind. The President also cited that the US has trained and equipped nearly 300,000 troops in Afghanistan, which is more than enough to deal with the Taliban; and this is a glorious withdrawal. However, what happened after the US military left was that the Afghan government had no intention to defend the country and

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