https://www.scmp.com/rss/503130/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Ill and defeated, Xu Chunlin approached the railing, the limits of a search for justice. Before him was a nine-metre plunge into Shenzhen’s rush-hour traffic. Behind him stood police he had just clashed with. On the overpass with him were about 80 other former construction workers considering the same desperate calculus. Leap now? Or wait to die when their lungs gave out? The journey that led them to that bridge began in the early 1990s. The men were young and healthy then, wide-eyed migrant... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3042557/migrant-workers-helped-build-chinas-economic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3042557/migrant-workers-helped-build-chinas-economic?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Dec 2019 01:30:08 +0000 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In a move to regulate how users access its microblogging service, Twitter announced new restrictions that sternly discouraged independent software developers from creating Twitter apps. While the move is not expected to immediately affect how current Twitter users across the world access the service, the new rules will likely nudge new users toward Twitter's own apps while slowly ushering the demise of popular third-party clients like Tweetbot. Twitter, which has been... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1017087/twitter-tightens-strangle-hold-apps-new-restrictions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1017087/twitter-tightens-strangle-hold-apps-new-restrictions?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:24:38 +0000