Looking back at Tiananmen Square

We were watching T.V.
Watching T.V.
We were watching T.V.
Watching T.V.
In Tiananmen Square
Lost my baby there
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes**
Last week it was 20 years ago that the Tiananmen Square massacre took place. For those of us who are too young to remember: after weeks of continued protests on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, on the 4th [...]

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The market and the theater

Four days a week it is open, more or less all through the year, the central marketplace in The Hague called the Haagse Markt. Claiming to be the biggest marketplace in Europe, it offers the visitor around 500 different stalls with products ranging from fruit and vegetables to clothing and shoes. It is a [...]

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