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In South Korea, 12 people died from heat-related deaths last weekend, while in Japan, three people died including a 13 year-old on her way back from schoolTwelve people have died from heat-related causes in South Korea as it swelters through a heatwave…
Read MoreThis blog is now closed. You can read our full story on the shooting in Auckland at the link below:Full report: two dead and six injured in Auckland after shooting at building sitePrime Minister Chris Hipkins has cancelled a trip to the city of Hamilto…
Read MoreUeno’s books are hugely popular in China, where a crackdown on large-scale organising has stifled a nascent feminist movementTo find evidence that China’s feminist movement is gaining momentum – despite strict government censorship and repression – che…
Read MoreProgramme is for people aged between nine and 24 who are experiencing extreme social withdrawalSouth Korea is to offer reclusive youths a monthly living allowance of 650,000 won ($490) in order to encourage them out of their homes, as part of a new mea…
Read MoreRussian president accused of ‘unlawful deportation’ of children ‘from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation’What we know on day 387 of the invasionThe state-owned Russian news agency RIA is reporting that Russia’s defence secretary, Serge…
Read MoreDanmei is by some measures the most popular genre of fiction for women in China, and its popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Communist party“The hand around his waist held him tighter, their bodies pressed closer together, and Xie Lian’s struggling…
Read MoreBeijing and Washington are battling for influence in the strategically important Pacific regionLocated between the US, China and Australia, the Pacific island countries hold strategic importance for security and defence. The US has long maintained infl…
Read MoreRooney is among a number of successful western authors who have found a growing audience in China’s restless younger generationWhen the manuscript of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends first arrived in Peng Lun’s inbox, he hesitated. It was 2017…
Read MoreThe idea emerged during the American civil war, so what is their appeal now, in the age of the satellite?Pentagon says it is monitoring Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over USOn Thursday, the Pentagon said it was tracking a Chinese spy balloon flyin…
Read MoreFrom climate change to women’s rights, what effect will the demographic time bomb at the heart of China’s economy have?China has entered a period of “negative population growth”, an important moment in the history of the country. As recently as 2019, t…
Read MoreAnalysis: the moralistic aspects of the new criminal code risk obscuring wider concerns about a stifling of protest and criticism of the stateShare your views on Indonesia’s new laws criminalising sex outside marriageIndonesia’s new criminal code limit…
Read MoreProtesters in China deploy creative means to make political statements in order to evade censorsBlank sheets of paper, mathematical equations and even alpacas: protesters in China have found creative ways to express anger at the government’s zero-Covid…
Read MoreTao Huabi rose from humble origins in south-western China to create a beloved condiment that can now be found in fridges around the worldThere is a saying about the south-western Chinese province of Guizhou: “Not three feet of flat land, not three days…
Read MoreGovernment pauses reopening plans after 837 new daily infections, despite just four deaths in a month among 80% vaccinated populationSingapore has reported its highest one-day Covid case total in more than a year, with 837 cases recorded on Tuesday.In …
Read MoreBiden confirms end of 20-year military presence; US secretary of state says support for Taliban ‘will have to be earned’; Taliban fire guns into the air in Kabul in celebrationChaos and bloodshed as last US flight leaves KabulAfghanistan: what can refu…
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