Ecuador said on Thursday it was waiving preferential rights under a US trade agreement to demonstrate its principled approach to the asylum request of former American spy agency contractor and...
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Edward Snowden
30-year-old American Edward Snowden, a contract employee at the National Security Agency, is the whistleblower behind significant revelations that surfaced in June 2013 about the US government's top secret, extensive domestic surveillance programmes. Snowden flew to Hong Kong from Hawaii in May 2013, and supplied confidential US government documents to media outlets including the Guardian.
27 Jun 2013
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Thursday rejected the US government accusation that the city's officials had feigned confusion over Edward Snowden’s name as a pretext for not...
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27 Jun 2013
A Russian passenger plane left Moscow for Havana on Thursday without any sign of former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden on board, witnesses said.
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Pinpointing the American students who have ties to the US intelligence community has become a seeming obsession at the top echelon of the university, which known as a bastion of Communist Party...
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27 Jun 2013
Amid the thousands of people passing through Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, Edward Snowden is – if Russia’s government is to be believed – staying put. That makes his situation unusual, but for...
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27 Jun 2013
“That Hong Kong would ask for more information about his identity demonstrates that it was simply trying to create a pretext for not acting on the provisional arrest request,” a US Justice...
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Edward Snowden's holing up in Hong Kong, his revelations about US spying activities and the circumstances of his departure prompted a harsher response from Washington than should have been...
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As the Hong Kong government asks the US to clarify Edward Snowden's claims of hacking in the city, an internet security expert says it's tough to trace when hackers attack, where they operate from...
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Hong Kong's refusal to detain Edward Snowden may yet have consequences for the city. A State Department official in Washington warned that the row could prevent progress on plans for visa-free...
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There's no sign on the door of the Hong Kong Internet Exchange. The grey, bunker-like structure could easily pass for any other building on the bland-looking Sha Tin campus of Chinese University...
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Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's net approval rating with Hongkongers has hit a record low, a survey shows. It also found that satisfaction with the government was at a 12-month low.
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Whatever else is said about Edward Snowden, he has achieved his objectives. Pre-Snowden, most people knew little about the shadowy US government arm that journalist David Rohde, in a recent...
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