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Single Chinese woman wants the country to allow her to freeze eggs for IVF

Under Chinese law, unmarried women are not allowed to freeze their eggs for in vitro fertilisation. Xu Zaozao, a 31-year-old single woman, says it is time to change the rules.

December 25, 2019
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The World Trade Organization has appointed Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as its director general. She will be Africa’s first WTO chief and the first woman to lead the Geneva...02:03
World Trade Organization (WTO)
New WTO chief makes history twice
February 16, 2021
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After watching a documentary about shark finning, Marine Thomas was left distraught and feeling that she needed to take action. Thomas ended up leaving her career in luxury fashion to take up...12:10
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On a mission to save Hong Kong’s marine life
February 16, 2025
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Hong Kong swimmer Siobhan Haughey appears unstoppable. She won two silver medals at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and in 2024, gold at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha. Haughey started...16:41
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Swimming world champ Siobhan Haughey's journey to success
March 8, 2024
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Read more about Yu Yau-pui here: https://sc.mp/bm0x ...14:29
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How this Hongkonger skipped university to make MMA history
December 24, 2023
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Read more about Splash Foundation here: https://sc.mp/9v2sz ...10:44
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How free swimming lessons can change lives
October 28, 2023
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Read more about Olivia Cotes-James and LUÜNA here: https://sc.mp/qqlg ...12:46
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This start-up is challenging taboos about menstrual cycles
September 23, 2023
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Read more about Asha Cuthbert here: https://sc.mp/ydnh  ...10:20
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'Too white' for roles on Hong Kong TV?
August 19, 2023
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Body Banter founder Stephanie Ng’s journey from anorexia to being a mental health advocate
July 8, 2023
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Chung Siu-king was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 1992. Suffering from paralysis, swollen joints and brittle bones, Chung had a serious fall six years later that left her wheelchair-bound...07:47
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Empowerment through dance
November 10, 2021
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Pan Baoxin, otherwise known as Long Long, has a unique way of keeping a food journal. Instead of words, photos or videos, she creates miniature clay imitations of her food, with some as small as a...03:59
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Bite-size food clay creations
October 31, 2021
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Meenakshi Amma, a 78-year-old granny, has been practising kalari, a 3,000-year-old traditional martial art, since she was seven years old. Once banned in 1804 under British colonial rule in India,...03:10
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Indian granny revives ancient martial art
October 2, 2021
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has expressed concern for her “Afghan sisters” after Taliban militants took control of Afghanistan. She survived being shot in the head by a Taliban...04:33
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Afghan women under Taliban rule
August 23, 2021
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Hong Kong’s best-ever Olympics got even better with the team picking up two bronze medals on day 13 of the Tokyo Olympics. The Hong Kong women's table tennis team got things off to a perfect start,...04:10
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HK celebrates historic bronze medal haul
August 5, 2021
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India’s economic slowdown, triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, has led to major unemployment in the nation. Women are particularly vulnerable as they’re often the first to be laid off by factory...02:40
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Indian women lose jobs during Covid-19
August 3, 2021
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Kodi Wan has taken Hong Kong’s waste problem into her own hands by practising what she calls a “minimalist” lifestyle. Wan started as a co-founder of an online second-hand item swapping platform,...03:53
Green living
Living a minimalist lifestyle in HK
July 17, 2021
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Malaysian teenager Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam has unwittingly sparked a #MeToo movement in school and beyond, after exposing a teacher’s rape joke in the classroom. The teacher allegedly joked about...02:23
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Malaysian teen exposes teacher’s rape joke
June 3, 2021
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With the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games just less than two months away, 30-year-old weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz is preparing for her fourth, and likely last, Olympics with one goal in mind:...02:17
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Philippines’ Olympic gold hopeful
May 28, 2021
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Activist Neola Pereira has been inspiring other young people to join her fight to save Mollem National Park in India’s Goa state. The group has been campaigning for months against a government plan...03:53
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Indian woman leads fight to save forest
April 20, 2021
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Hundreds of Pakistani Hazara women are defying cultural norms to learn how to deliver sidekicks and elbow blows to defend themselves using Chinese martial arts. In the conservative Muslim-majority...03:09
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Pakistan’s Hazara women pack a punch
April 13, 2021
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Khine Mar Nwe has not been home with her family for more than a month since she left them to join Myanmar’s anti-coup protests. The 26-year-old mother and leader of a garment factory union has...02:39
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Women in Myanmar’s anti-coup movement
March 10, 2021
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Nikmatul Rosidah Dobson is one of Hong Kong’s most popular YouTubers. But instead of videos produced in the city’s official languages, English or Cantonese, the shy housewife’s clips use the Bahasa...05:59
International Women's Day
Housewife Nikmatul Rosidah cooks up hit with everyday videos
March 8, 2021
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International Women's Day 2021 is being observed more than a year after the coronavirus started to shake the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to its core. Speaking before the March 8 observance,...04:31
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Women on front line of Covid-19 fight
March 8, 2021