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In the Asian country, there are three different ways of calculating your age – one of which means a newborn baby can be two years old. Now the president-elect is pushing for change Name: The Korean Age.Age: Korean. Continue reading…
Women signing up to a groundbreaking digital journalism school follow a four-week course on their mobile phonesHolding her phone at arm’s length, a crowd gathered behind her, Amreen Khan speaks into the camera. “Today, I am in Chandpura village,” she s…
According to WHO analysis, figure for country is more than 4 million and not official tally of 520,000India has been accused of attempting to delay an effort by the World Health Organization to revise the global death toll from Covid-19 after its calcu…
While the pandemic has not led to a jump in unemployment, its impact on the over-50s and public sector staff is particularly troublingAt first glance, the UK jobs market is in rude health. The unemployment rate is back to where it was before the Covid …
Led by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand women are entering uncharted territory in politics – and encountering increasing levels of abuseIn January 2020, a New Zealand man sent two emails to prime minister Jacinda Ardern: one threatening to “personally wipe …
Jakki Moxham reflects on the experience of a family who came to Britain last year, and the systemic failures of Operation Warm WelcomeI read your feature with great interest (Welcome to Britain … now what? Afghan families on their lives in limbo, 26 Ma…
Rally and vigil held in Islamabad to highlight discrimination and attacks on community, including murders of five trans women in MarchMano had gone to meet her boyfriend at a printing press in Peshawar’s Qissa Khwani bazaar to get back some money he ha…
Landmark agreement to protect garment workers from violence follows last year’s murder of Jeyasre Kathiravel, a Dalit womanH&M has signed a legally binding agreement with one of its largest Indian clothing suppliers that pledges to end sexual viole…
Support slashed despite warnings about impact, with offices told not to discuss plans with local partners, says National Audit Office reportThe British government forced through £4.2bn in aid cuts so quickly it had little time to plan the impact they w…
Unions say strike over ‘anti-worker’ government policies a success despite limited impact, with far fewer than predicted taking partAn estimated 50 million people joined India’s two-day national strike this week, a fraction of the number expected to pr…
Concern about economy leads city to try targeted approach with rolling restrictions of individual neighbourhoodsShanghai has recorded a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, but officials have ruled out a full lockdown over the damage it would do to the econom…
A lack of teachers and school uniform issues blamed for school closures but confusion is a sign of differences in vision for Afghanistan’s futureEarlier this week, girls across Afghanistan arrived for lessons on the day secondary schools were due to op…
Hardline rulers bow to pressure from rural tribes after it had been suggested all students would return to schoolThe Taliban have decided against opening schools to girls in Afghanistan beyond secondary school age, an official said Wednesday on the fir…
Second whistleblower suggests to committee that top civil servants lied to cover up episodeA second whistleblower has gone public to say it was “widespread knowledge” in government that Boris Johnson ordered the prioritisation of an animal charity base…