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Women continue to perform up to 5 times more care work than men: UN official
At the UN Ministerial Conference in Bangkok, officials highlighted the slow progress of women's emp…
PTI
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Top 10 richest people in Asia in 2024
The wealth scene in Asia is always in the spotlight, with many impressive individuals making it big…
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Over 6,500 adolescent girls die giving birth every year across South Asia, says a recent study
According to the joint analysis, every year, nearly 6,500 adolescent girls die in childbirth in Sou…
PTI
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Asia's governments think people not having sex or dating may be tanking their birth rates. That's not the full picture.
One expert told BI that there is "very little, if hard any evidence at all" to show that pro-natali…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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My night with Cinderella: Inside the ball where rich and famous kids enter high society
Le Bal des Debutantes is where the children of the rich and famous enter high society. Follow a par…
Maria Noyen
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China's millennials are shunning marriage at alarming rates, and it's creating a nationwide population crisis that Beijing can't magically fix
A 2021 survey found that 43.5% of unmarried women respondents were hesitant to get married because …
Matthew Loh
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Replanted tropical trees don't survive for long, researchers tell us why
Forest restoration is a powerful tool to tackle biodiversity loss and climate change, by locking aw…
ANI
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Pregnant women in North Korea are being forced to give birth in warehouses and hotels as the country buckles under its COVID crisis: report
Expectant mothers in quarantine are only given two painkiller pills a day — the same treatment give…
Matthew Loh
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'We will liberate ourselves from a colonial mindset': Jaishankar declares
"We will liberate ourselves from a colonial mindset," India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishank…
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Lunch and carefully avoiding politics at the only Russian-Ukrainian restaurant in Singapore
The restaurant, named Dumplings.RU, uses the online domain "ang moh dumplings," Singapore slang tha…
Marielle Descalsota
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Japan's ghost town problem, the bleak reality of 'Squid Game,' and how Vietnam destroyed its last paradise: our most popular stories from Asia
Insider launched its first Asia bureau one year ago. Here are 16 of the most popular stories from o…
Insider Inc, Singapore bureau
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A man in India divorced his wife for cooking him instant noodles every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, judge says
Women in India are becoming more career-oriented, but husbands still expect them to fulfill traditi…
Katie Boon
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China's controversial 'zero Covid' policy is not sustainable, WHO director general says
"We have discussed about this issue with Chinese experts and we indicated that the approach will no…
Waiyee Yip
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Many South Koreans are still wearing their masks even after the law mandating them was lifted
"To suddenly pull off a mask in a pandemic and then potentially spread an infection would be a pote…
Waiyee Yip
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How a Chinese county's plan to fix declining marriages turned into 'operation warm the older men's beds' and sparked a social media firestorm
The government of Xiangyin county in Hunan province wanted to encourage women to stay in their home…
Matthew Loh
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People who haven't contracted COVID-19 yet have no friends, Korean doctor says
Ma Sang-hyuk's comments, which were shared in a now-deleted Facebook post, come as South Korea has …
Waiyee Yip
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Unmarried women in China have discovered how to escape the stigma of singledom: Flaunting their wealth on social media
"The expectation of a successful woman has moved from 'marrying well' to 'be the architect of your …
Waiyee Yip
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'Love and Leashes,' a BDSM-themed Korean romantic comedy, is sparking online conversations about consent
Viewers have praised the film, which has topped Netflix charts across Asia, for driving home the im…
Waiyee Yip
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Wearing hair rollers in your bangs in public is the hot Gen Z look in South Korea. It signals a major shift in how women react to the pressure to be perfect.
Young women say they do it because it's practical, but the trend confuses older Koreans who would n…
Waiyee Yip
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Preventing climate change requires a shift in society, says UN panel
But for it to work, things are going to need to change. Drastically. ‘Net’ zero emissions …