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Hong Kong (AFP) - More than 40 civil groups in Hong Kong appealed to the United Nations Tuesday demanding action to protect rapidly disappearing freedoms as Beijing increasingly tightens its grip on the freewheeling city.

After closing the doors on new applications from international students, Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Board of Governors has recently voted to approve a 15 per cent increase in tuition fees for international students.

On Thursday, the Shingrix Pharmacy Tour is coming to Richmond, educating residents aged 50 and older about the shingles virus. The herpes zoster virus, more commonly known as the shingles virus, is also the virus that causes the chickenpox.

Vancouver’s 2018 cruise season is set to launch April 10, and welcome what Vancouver Fraser Port Authority executives expect to be 895,000 passengers, or 7% more visitors than last year.

Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert to lead three-person task force

Paris (AFP) - China's critically endangered Yangtze River porpoise is a distinct species, meaning it cannot interbreed with other porpoise types to pass on its DNA, a major analysis of the creature's genome revealed on Tuesday.

Jakarta (AFP) - Indonesia's deadliest bootleg liquor crisis in years has killed at least 90 people, authorities said Tuesday, prompting one region to declare a state of emergency.

The Kwantlen Public Interest Research Group Society, a non-profit set up by the Kwantlen Student Association, is suing former director Richard Hossein for allegedly defrauding the society out of thousands of dollars.

A North Vancouver senior has been awarded $93,000 in damages by a B.C. Supreme Court justice after she injured herself falling into an open water meter box set into a West Vancouver sidewalk.

The Justin Trudeau government has seven weeks to provide “final clarity,” or Kinder Morgan Canada (TSX:KML) says it will take a $1.1 billion write-off and pull the plug on its $7.4 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.