LGBTQ rights, deepfake threats, falling fertility: Asia’s gender equality landscape in 2024
[South China Morning Post] - 12/28/2024
In 2024, Asia’s gender equality landscape saw advancements in LGBTQ rights amid alarming rates of violence against women, highlighting ongoing challenges.
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Turkey’s pro-Kurd party to meet jailed PKK leader on Saturday
Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is serving a life sentence on a prison island off Istanbul.
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024
Former Indian Prime Minister cremated in New Delhi, mourned worldwide
Singh was known as a mild-mannered technocrat and was widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024
Number of Hongkongers leaving city over Christmas holiday rose by 50%
Immigration data shows 905,035 local residents left Hong Kong on Christmas Day and Boxing Day of this year, compared (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024
China’s Xi Jinping calls on Politburo to lead by example in anti-corruption fight
Fight ‘all forms of misconduct and corruption’ and keep an eye on both ‘family members and staff’, Xi is quoted as (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024
Azerbaijani and US officials suggest plane that crashed may have been hit by weapons fire
Assessments echoed those made by outside aviation experts who blamed Wednesday’s crash on Russia.
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024
From Taylor Swift to Messi: looking back at Hong Kong’s 2024 mega-event flops
City held more than 110 mega-events in first half of 2024 as part of efforts to bolster the local economy, but some (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024
Elon Musk backs right-wing AfD party in German newspaper opinion piece
Soon after article was published online, editor of the opinion section said she had submitted her resignation, with (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024
Famed China hotel mocked for charging US$40 for coffee and cake, says price includes tour
Hotel went viral on social media after appearing in popular TV series Blossoms Shanghai earlier this year.
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024
China’s final 2024 rocket take-off fails but it is still a record year for space launches
Four-stage Kinetica-1 Y6 suffers ‘attitude instability’ three stages in, with makers CAS Space investigating causes.
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024
China names senior UN envoy Dai Bing as new South Korean ambassador
Dai, 57, has no background in East Asian affairs, but his experience of international issues may be an asset, (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024
Aid reaches south Khartoum in Sudan civil war amid humanitarian crisis
Civilians in the paramilitary RSF held capital of Sudan received their first aid convoy since the war began 20 (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 28/12/2024