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Hong Kong’s Bethune House puts out call for help

Hong Kong’s Bethune House Migrant Women’s Refuge is calling for donations to keep its doors open.

Chappell Roan speaks out against predatory fan behaviour

New Miss Hong Kong lays out ambitions

After beating illness, starting PhD, ex-world No 1 Zhu back playing table tennis

The Chinese star, who was diagnosed in 2020, says sport is now just a hobby, alongside her life as professor, student and businesswoman.

Zhu Yuling returned to the international arena for the first time in 4½ years last week, representing hosts Macau at the WTT Champions event. Photo: World Table Tennis

Controversy grows over sex education guidelines in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong government’s new guidelines on sex education have been met with both mockery and criticism.

Deepfake chatroom crisis sparks furore in South Korea

South Korea has been rocked by revelations of sexually explicit deepfake images circulating in Telegram chatrooms.

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Gender controversy strikes the Olympics

Boxers Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif have found themselves at the centre of a controversy over gender in sport.

Kamala Harris kicks off US presidential bid

After Joe Biden’s withdrawal, Kamala Harris is set to make history as the prospective Democratic nominee for the 2024 US presidential election.

5 young Chinese women hoping to make a big impact on their Games debuts in Paris

These potential stars have excelled in traditional events such as gymnastics and shooting, as well as the newer sports of breaking, surfing and climbing.

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The fall of Canadian literary icon Alice Munro

Months after her death, Canadian writer Alice Munro is facing a reckoning following her daughter’s revelations of abuse.

The Indonesian all-female heavy metal band who rocked Glastonbury

Battling prejudice and opposition, Voice of Baceprot made history as Indonesia’s first musical act to perform on Britain’s Glastonbury stage.

Man or bear? the choice dividing the internet

The ‘man vs bear’ debate is less about the actual choice and more about women’s perceptions of danger, particularly around men. 

The sexism problem plaguing Australia’s schools

Early in May, two boys were expelled from an exclusive Melbourne private school for ranking their female classmates online.

Asia’s LGBT couples face hurdles in starting families

All across Asia, governments are encouraging people to have children, but this rarely extends to LGBT couples.

Opinion | China’s ‘comfort women’ movement sees turning point with Shanxi lawsuit

The lawsuit filed in Shanxi by the families of 18 women forced into sexual slavery by the imperial Japanese army is the first such challenge in a Chinese court and marks a critical moment in the movement. Success will depend on domestic and international support

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Two statues symbolising “comfort women” at a park in Shanghai. The Chinese government’s attitude to the issue of justice for the women forced by the Japanese military to work in wartime brothers has been seen as ambiguous. Photo: AFP

Hongkonger’s legal quest for LGBT recognition continues

After a fight lasting seven years, Henry Tse has his new identity card, but says there’s more to be done.

Australia’s gender-based violence crisis

More than two dozen women in Australia have died from gender-based violence in 2024, prompting protests across the nation.

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US book on transgender surgery for young people stirs debate, threats in Japan

A newspaper group’s publication of a translated version of ‘Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters’ has raised freedom of expression concerns on both sides of Japan’s political divide.

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The cover of the Japanese edition of Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters”, published by Sankei Shimbun Publishing. Photo: X/vocgensan

How Hong Kong entrepreneur Vriko Kwok went Further than she had ever been

The Brazilian jiu jitsu athlete went from 0 303.313km in under a year at the Lululemon challenge to prove wrong those who thought it was beyond her.

Out and proud: India’s opposition parties embrace same-sex civil unions

The Congress party and the Communist Party of India will include in their legislative agenda a law to recognise same-sex civil unions, if they win enough votes.

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Inside the making of women taiko drummers film Finding Her Beat

Finding Her Beat is a documentary feature film about a historic women’s taiko drumming performance in the US, with many involved in the project from the Asian-American and LGBTQ communities.

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Taiko drummer and Finding Her Beat producer Jennifer Weir on a poster for the documentary about women taiko drummers and their historic performance in the US. Photo: Instagram / indierightsmovies

‘She-cession’ threat still real as China’s post-pandemic gender gap widens

Study finds disparity between men and women has grown in China, with researchers seeing the ‘magnitude of the ‘she-cession’, where the Covid-induced economic slowdown disproportionately impacted the female labour force.

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China’s female labour force participation rate – the proportion of those aged 15 and older that are economically active – declined from 61.4 per cent in 2019 to 60.5 last year, according to the World Bank. Photo: EPA-EFE

‘I would be arrested at the airport’: actress targets Iran’s regime

Iranian-French actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who won best actress at Cannes 2022 for Holy Spider, talks about her films that portray people defying Iran’s strict laws, and advocating for women’s rights.

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South Korean man who attacked shop worker with short hair jailed for 3 years

The man punched and kicked the store worker, resulting in multiple injuries, and also injured a shopper who attempted to intervene.

Japanese rape survivor on her film of case that shook her country

Journalist Shiori Ito’s documentary Black Box Diaries is a soul-baring examination of her sexual assault by a high-profile journalist and her fight for justice that pushed the #MeToo movement in Japan.

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Japanese journalist Shiori Ito (right) in a still from Black Box Diaries, her documentary of her sexual assault by a prominent TV journalist and her five-year struggle to bring him to justice that pushed the #MeToo movement in Japan. Photo: HKIFF

Japan cracks down on vice clubs forcing women customers into sex work

Four arrests were made in connection to a website promising women opportunities to ‘earn tens of millions of yen a month’ in the US sex industry.

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Women walk past an advertisement for a “host club” in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo in December. Photo: EPA-EFE

Asian Angle | As Gen Z ‘ages like milk’, is it time to call code red on TikTok challenges?

TikTok challenges have encouraged trends such as Gen Z users believing they are ‘ageing like milk’ and changing up their image to fish for compliments.

How seed of Olympic ambition was sown in Siobhan Haughey, Hong Kong athlete

Swimming sensation Siobhan Haughey takes the Post through the process that led to her becoming the most accomplished Hong Kong competitor of all time in the pool.

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Latest news, analysis and opinion on key issues facing women in the Asia region. The South China Morning Post's Lunar initiative aims to highlight stories for women and by women, as well as gender equality issues.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
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