Every year, our sister company ranks the world cities to determine the best places live. Which city came out on top this yer? Let's just say there's no hiding from the truth. In many countries, Pride is a time when people of all sexualities, engenders, are celebrated with music, dancing and copious rainbow flag. But pride started as a protest to reject the shame felt by lesbie and gay by an tranced people. And these protests were often stamped down by local authorities - including china.
In much of the world, things are improving for sexual minorities.
The opposite is true in China, where authorities are cracking down on the LGBT community. Bangladesh is suffering its worst flooding in living memory, but with a surprisingly low death toll (so far). And which city topped the EIU’s annual
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