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#MeToo in China

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Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu appeals against rape sentence

Video | Kris Wu appeals rape conviction in Beijing

26 Jul 2023 - 7:00PM

The women leading China’s Covid-19 protests

5 Dec 2022 - 6:17PM

Has the #MeToo movement brought structural change in Asia?

17 Oct 2022 - 8:32AM

Monkeypox isn’t a ‘gay disease’

Discrimination against the LGBTQ community in Asia makes tracking new clusters of monkeypox more difficult.

12 Aug 2022 - 4:00PM

Monkeypox isn’t a ‘gay disease’

New Korean drama draws praise and criticism among autism community

Cases of high-functioning autistic people exist, but are a rare part of the autistic experience.

22 Jul 2022 - 5:10PM

Women’s health matters - beyond fertility

Japan says apart from the risks to a woman’s health, an underweight body mass index could endanger newborn babies.

16 Jul 2022 - 12:06PM

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China proposes first-ever sex offender registry to stem campus assault epidemic

Plans for a nationwide sex offender registry for schools and universities would be the biggest change to laws on sexual assault in China in almost two decades, but some have criticised the absence of penalties for offenders.

2 May 2022 - 9:12AM

A human chain of protesters in support of the Chinese #MeToo movement. Photo: Xinyan Yu

Banking & finance

Climate activists challenge HSBC over net-zero policies at annual meeting

Campaigners calling for HSBC to end its financing of fossil fuels interrupted the bank’s annual meeting in London.

30 Apr 2022 - 12:09AMvideocam

In Hong Kong’s 5th wave, domestic workers’ lives have fallen apart

8 Apr 2022 - 8:33PM

Foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong

‘Treat us as human beings’, say Hong Kong domestic workers who caught Covid

Dozens of domestic workers who tested positive for Covid-19 have been left homeless and facing discrimination; crisis highlights need to revise rule forcing them to live in the same house as employers.

3 Apr 2022 - 11:57AMvideocam

A foreign domestic worker in Hong Kong in February, amid the coronavirus outbreak. Few have suffered more during the city’s pandemic restrictions than the hundreds of thousands of women, mainly from the Philippines and Indonesia, who work as domestic helpers. Photo: AFP

Opinion | Indonesia’s G20 needs to secure open trade for recovery from crisis

Russia’s war in Ukraine can be a catalyst for strengthening the World Trade Organization – the scaffolding that holds up the global economy, write Shiro Armstrong and Yose Rizal Damuri.

23 Mar 2022 - 2:27PMvideocam

Officials prepare exhibition stands at a venue for a G20 meeting in Jakarta. Photo: AFP

#MeToo in China: academic fired after affair with student who fell pregnant

In the latest high-profile case of sexual misconduct to rock China a married doctor and medical academic who got a student pregnant has been fired from his university post after an investigation.

25 Feb 2022 - 6:00PMvideocam

Lunar: Newsletter

Romance scams, Eileen Gu’s nationality and more

8 Apr 2022 - 9:06PM

Video | Chinese #MeToo pioneer fights on

19 May 2022 - 12:02PM

'We need to let the courts hear us': Chinese #MeToo pioneer vows to fight on

Sexual assault in the metaverse, viral dance, and Asian aunties

8 Apr 2022 - 9:06PM

Sexual assault in the metaverse, viral dance, and Asian aunties

Murder, botched surgery and greed — crime stories that shocked China

A child bride calling police to stop her own wedding, a man who murdered his two small children to make room for a ‘new family’ and other stories that stunned China since last Lunar New Year.

4 Feb 2022 - 9:08AM

Sexual harassment and assault

‘Laws don’t support women’: China’s #MeToo accusers crushed by burden of proof

Activist says Beijing’s crackdown on feminists in recent years, coupled with male-dominated power, may push more women to fight back against oppression.

14 Feb 2022 - 2:17PMvideocam

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China Football Association

Fan Zhiyi says Chinese football ‘must change’ after shock loss to Vietnam

The former Crystal Palace defender questioned whether Chinese football can rebuild in a lengthy Weibo post viewed more than 1.3 million times.

2 Feb 2022 - 10:42PM

Fan Zhiyi surrounded by media after China’s historic 1-0 victory over Oman at the 2002 World Cup qualifier. Photo: AFP

Lunar: Newsletter

Lockdown love, #MeToo in South Korea, and more

21 Jan 2022 - 4:06PM

Kate Middleton’s favourite outfits, and her habit of re-wearing them

As Kate Middleton approaches her 40th birthday, we look back at her top fashion choices and habit of repeating her favourite outfits, sometimes years later.

7 Jan 2022 - 4:15PM

Women and gender

Opinion | China’s leaders want gender equality, but without any input from women

An amendment by the Chinese government to further safeguard the rights of women is laudable, but claims that change should only come from the top ignore centuries of women’s grass-roots struggles for equality.

29 Dec 2021 - 9:15AMvideocam

Delegates chat during the 19th Party Congress in Beijing on October 18, 2017. Women make up just 28 per cent of the Party’s 91 million members. Photo: Reuters

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

Exclusive | US applies for officials to attend Winter Games amid diplomatic boycott

US government applies for three-month visas for 18 people to provide ‘security support operations’ at Beijing Games.

24 Dec 2021 - 10:30PMvideocam

Of the 18 names of US officials submitted for visa applications to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, 15 worked for the US State Department and one worked for the Pentagon, according to a source. Photo: AFP

Women and gender

China looks to ‘update and strengthen’ women’s rights law

Proposed revision includes outlawing superstitious practices, and banning employers from asking female applicants about marital or pregnancy status.

11 Jan 2022 - 7:18AMvideocam

Scholars call on China to release detained #MeToo, labour activists

Sophia Huang, who was awarded the UK scholarship, and her friend Wang Jianbing were arrested three months ago on suspicion of ‘inciting subversion of state power’.

9 Dec 2021 - 5:27PMvideocam

Sexual harassment and assault

How Peng Shuai is fanning the embers of China’s #MeToo movement

Campaigners against sexual assault say the case is heartening despite the silencing of discussion inside the country.

5 Dec 2021 - 11:46PMvideocam

illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Once China’s ‘golden flower’, tennis star Peng Shuai is now the centre of an international #MeToo storm

In this issue of Global Impact, we look at the case of Chinese tennis pro Peng Shuai and summarises what we know so far.

28 Jan 2022 - 10:49AM

Once China’s ‘golden flower’, tennis star Peng Shuai is now the centre of an international #MeToo storm

US-China relations

IOC aided Beijing’s ‘disappearance’ of Peng Shuai, US lawmakers’ measure says

‘The IOC cares more about appeasing the Chinese Communist Party and the Olympics’ corporate sponsors than the well-being of Olympic tennis star Peng Shuai,’ says one of the lawmakers who introduced the resolution.

4 Dec 2021 - 7:12AMvideocam

Lunar: Newsletter

Bollywood and breastfeeding, Canada Goose, and a woman neon artist

3 Dec 2021 - 4:00PM

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