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Country steps up efforts to control a surge in coronavirus cases as it tries to maintain its zero Covid policy. Major cities such as Shenzhen and Changchun have been locked down as Covid cases hit a two-year high. Nearly 90% of new infections are in Ji…
‘Dynamic zero-Covid policy’ under scrutiny in region with highest death rate in developed world Staff meetings are often mundane affairs and rarely end in tears. But on Wednesday Ho Hiu-fai, the accident and emergency chief at Hong Kong’s Queen Elizabe…
As female students are denied schooling and career prospects, medical staff warn of a rise in mental health problemsThere was an English exam under way when news began to circulate that the Taliban had reached Kabul. Panic spread and Yamna was among th…
Report warns that rise in support for conspiracy theories is fuelling recruitment for far rightSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than a quarter of people believe Covid-19 was likely to have been a biological weapon intentionally spread by the Chines…
Zahir Jaffer tortured and beheaded Noor Mukadam, in July last year, in case that sparked outrage over violence against womenA court in Islamabad has sentenced to death the tycoon’s son who raped and murdered Noor Mukadam, a case that sparked outrage in…
Shows about ‘aunts and uncles’ looking for love go viral as they debunk negative stereotypes of elderly people Standing before the studio audience the slim older man holds a microphone in front of his blue polo shirt, buttoned to the neck. Wang Qingmin…
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Sri Lankan beaches buried in pellets only ‘tip of the iceberg’ of environmental harm after analysis of nurdles from burning shipContainer ship accidents at sea should be considered the “oil spills of our time”, warned environmental organisations that f…
As temperatures fall below freezing, children as young as four trying to make a living on the Afghan capital’s streets are all that stand between their family and starvationAmid the roadside restaurants and bustling crowds in one of Kabul’s busiest mar…
Hlaing Thayar was at the centre of Myanmar’s protests, but brutal crackdowns and the collapse of the local garment industry have taken their tollRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesAs Thitsar* walked through her neighbourhood one December morning,…
Debate over treatment of people with mental illness revived as authorities launch investigationA video of a woman apparently locked against her will in a filthy shack has gone viral in China, prompting an investigation as well as a conversation about t…
Funds will go only to those provinces where girls are in school if Taliban renege on promise, diplomats sayThe west is planning to incentivise the Taliban to abide by their promise to allow girls to be educated by providing funding for teachers’ salari…
Many swear words in India, as elsewhere, have one thing in common – they target and shame women. Sunil Jaglan wants to empower women and end the culture of profanitiesOn a cold January afternoon, women gather on the veranda of a government-run nursery …
Chinese women in particular prioritising education and careers, a trend alarming authorities facing ‘demographic timebomb’Early in January, China’s state news agency Xinhua posted a video reminding young Chinese men born in the year 2000 that they were…