Charlie Fong

Tommy Fung, Johnny Chan, and Desmond Yuen discuss their evolving identities as people with dual and intersectional identities, as they grapple with how their personal journeys are intertwined with the changing state of the world.

A court in the United Arab Emirates has handed life sentences to 43 Emiratis for "terrorist" links, state media said Wednesday, after a mass trial heavily criticised by UN experts and rights groups.Government critics and human rights activists were among the 84 defendants brought before the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal, most of whom have been in jail since a similar trial of 94 people in 2013, according to rights groups. The Abu Dhabi court "sentenced 43 defendants...

“Every day, at night, people hit the pots and pans at their homes to show their disapproval of the coup d'etat,” said Maung Khant Phyoe, an NYU Abu Dhabi student from Myanmar. When the conflicts are near my home, I can hear the mobs shouting. Two nights ago, I heard gunshots near my home.”

Dawn turned 30 in April. Her birthday celebration, like for many in pandemic-hit Hong Kong, was low-key this year—just a video game marathon and a gathering at home with friends and family.
As she leaned over the candles of a store-bought cake, her wish for her turn of the decade was simple: The devout Christian prayed for birth certificates for her and her 29-year-old sister, Kaye. They had been waiting for them anxiously since applying in Oct. 2019.
The two siblings were born in Hong Kong, the...