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Diversity and inclusion: all stories

Diversity and inclusion: all stories
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Thailand’s annual military draft lottery has turned into a beauty pageant of sorts for the country’s transgender women. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/QQ.com
Viral stories

‘Beauty pageant’: Thai transgender women seek publicity during military lottery

Annual event mixes anxiety with celebration, one potential soldier holds amulet in mouth in hope of avoiding draft.

United States

Letters | If the US wants to protect rule of law, start with its own backyard

Trending in China

Shock as Malaysia teacher tells pupil struggling with dialect to ‘go back to China’

Hong Kong

Engineer by training, brewer by profession – and she’s breaking barriers

Anushka Purohit founded food upcycling craft beer brand Breer at just 18 – it’s been a long road of breaking ageist and sexist stereotypes.

Breer co-founder Anushka Purohit has battled gender stereotypes throughout her career. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Having more women on boards makes business sense. Hong Kong gets it

In this increasingly complex world, it is vital for businesses to embrace gender diversity, and diversity more broadly, for long-term success.

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Hong Kong stock market

Women hold 1 in 5 board seats in Hong Kong for first time: report

Significant disparities remain in senior-management representation and pay equity, reports show.

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Hong Kong culture

Opinion | Like the US, Hong Kong’s challenge is to balance progressive ideals

As the US roils from a rollback in diversity policies, Hong Kong must beware of overcorrection in its patriotism push.

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A sign outside US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office in Washington on February 25, 2021. Trump’s efforts to roll back diversity policies and defend women’s rights against the transgender lobby are rippling through US society. Photo: Reuters
Aviation

Stressed US aviation system in focus as crash investigators search for clues

Political pressure mounts in Washington to identify what failed, leading to deadliest American air disaster in decades.

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Trending in China

Classmates’ love dispels fears over Chinese girl with different coloured eyes

Acceptance of fellow pupils, teachers sees seven-year-old girl with rare eye condition blossom at school despite mother’s discrimination fears.

Hong Kong

Meet the women changing the face of Hong Kong’s construction industry

Once the sole preserve of men, the construction industry is welcoming ever more women bosses – PostMag meets the Hongkongers changing the game

The women changing the face of Hong Kong’s construction industry. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong society

Opinion | Paris Games and philanthropy show power of the human spirit

The new norm of navigating good and bad news simultaneously reminds us that what truly matters is how we choose to respond.

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Athletes take part in the closing ceremony of the Paris Paralympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris, on September 8. Photo: Kyodo
Architecture and design

How can we make public spaces more welcoming for neurodivergent visitors?

People with autism and ADHD interact with the world differently – and designing for inclusivity has never been more important

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Record number of LGBTQ athletes competing at the 2024 Olympics

Organisers of the Paris Olympics have underscored diversity and inclusion as major themes, showcasing drag queens and refugee athletes in Friday’s opening ceremony.

Australia

Will multiculturalism road map help boost ‘sense of belonging’ in Australia?

A new report has suggested nearly 30 steps to boost Australia’s cultural diversity, including offering citizenship tests in non-English languages.

Lanterns hang from above as crowds flock to Dixon Street Mall as part of Lunar New Year celebrations in Chinatown, Sydney, Australia, in January 2022. Photo: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Trending in China

China groom nets US$23,000 in cash garlands at wedding highlighting son bias

The wedding day of a couple in China has attracted attention for the large amount of cash given to the groom by his elder siblings because he was the only boy in the family, upholding a dwindling custom.

A groom in China has been showered with cash gifts by his sisters in a display of gender bias which shows that the desire to have a male child persists in the country. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Douyin
Trending in China

China KOL criticised for costume-makeup video that ‘reinforces Asian stereotypes’

A US-based Chinese TikToker is facing serious backlash in China for a video that critics say “reinforces Asian stereotypes”.

Trending in China

Backlash for Chinese actors who went blackface in film about African peacekeepers

Two top actors from China are facing a backlash over racism after they appeared in a movie in blackface makeup.

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Trending in China

Outrage after armless man in China is asked to prove disability by train staff

A man in China with an obvious disability forgot his government-issued pass at a railway station and was asked by staff to show evidence he was eligible to travel without paying.

There has been outrage on mainland social media after an armless man in China was denied free metro ride because he had forgotten his disability pass. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
Trending in China

Racist British Airways cabin crew pair sacked for mocking Chinese passengers

Two women flight attendants have been sacked by British Airways for mocking Chinese passengers by sneering at their inability to speak English and making slant-eye gestures.

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Women and gender

Letters | How companies can ensure gender bias doesn’t hold women back

On International Women’s Day, readers discuss the need to better support women as they move up the career ladder, migrant domestic workers’ efforts to create a more inclusive city, and the Hong Kong government’s baby bonus.

Hong Kong society

Opinion | Gender inequality hurts men and boys too. Inclusion is everyone’s fight

From men’s reluctance to seek mental help to women’s low workforce participation, harmful gender-based social norms and unequal power dynamics hurt everyone. Men and boys must go beyond being supportive allies to taking shared ownership of the cause.

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Video gaming

With ‘Lucia’, Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer caps video gaming’s diversity trend

The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer shows the series introducing a playable woman character for the first time, capping a wider trend towards more diversity and inclusivity in the video gaming industry.

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“Lucia” is seen in this still from the trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, which Rockstar Games will release in 2025. The first playable woman character in the series, she represents a growing focus on diversity and inclusion in video gaming. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong society

Why the South China Morning Post is one great melting pot

With well over 700 people of nearly 30 different nationalities at the Post, a more diverse and inclusive workplace is hard to find.

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ESG investing

Boards of China’s 100 most valuable firms have only 14% female directors

The top performers in diversity terms were privately-owned enterprises, many of which operated in high-growth industries.

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China economy

The View | How businesses still upbeat on Asia can adapt to new norm of uncertainty

China’s growth, global economic conditions, geopolitical tensions and energy transition ambiguity are all risks. Businesses can prepare by boosting in-house intelligence and diversity in recruitment and operations.

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More diverse teams and leadership are an asset in an environment of heightened uncertainty. Studies show that diversity fosters creative ideas, which helps teams adapt more quickly to unforeseen events. Photo: Shutterstock
Britain

UK pays Chinese, Indian workers more than other ethnic minorities, fails to address racial diversity

Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers earn up to 16 per cent less than White British workers; Indian and Chinese earn 16 per cent and 23 per cent more – a gap easily overlooked if if ethnic minority individuals are lumped together under umbrella references such as ‘Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic’.

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While Rishi Sunak is Britain’s first Asian Prime Minister, a report by the Institute for Black Economic Mobility indicates momentum in racial equality has stalled in the country. Photo: Reuters
Fashion

‘So comfortable in my skin’: Indian size-inclusive fashion satisfies a need

Plus-size fashion used to be hard to find in India, or unaffordable thanks to a ‘fat tax’. Today independent brands have sprung up offering flattering clothes at fair prices in a size-inclusive range.

Gender

Lunar: Malaysia’s May Tan looks back on trailblazing banking career in Hong Kong

Veteran Hong Kong-based banker May Tan tells Lunar about breaking the glass ceiling, male allies and helping to bridge the gender gap in boardrooms

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