Shot, blinded or beaten: the high cost of protesting in Chile
After just five minutes at a demonstration in his Santiago neighbourhood, Diego Foppiano Jara was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet, leaving him half blind.
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Category: WORLD
Deserted and paralysed: the other side of the Hong Kong protests
Central News reporter Melanie Wong has discovered that away from the globally covered CBD riots and university battlegrounds, Hong Kong’s streets and shopping centres are deserted – and locals are retreating behind closed doors.
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On the streets of #ChileEnCrisis
Tys Occhiuzzi returns to the epi-centre of yesterday’s million-strong protest in Santiago Chile.
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Chile protests: UTS student captures a country in crisis
A UTS journalism student on exchange in Chile, has captured scenes of a country in crisis.
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Australia’s Chileans in exile: remembering the past as they fear the future
Australia’s “Chileans in exile” are concerned that Chile today is increasingly like Chile under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
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US diplomat on troops withdrawal: ‘We heard about it the same way you did
“The president, like every national leader, approaches his interpersonal relations with other leaders how he wants.”
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Hong Kong: chaos returns to airport
Tuesday August 13: Protestors have forced the cancellation of flights in and out of Hong...
Read MoreThe basket weavers banking on tradition
The indigenous women of Coron in the Philippines’ northern islands, are adapting to their rapidly changing environment by turning to their past. A shortage of fish – at a time of rising tourist numbers – has...
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