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End crackdown on protesters, lift all curbs: Amnesty International to Bangladesh government

"Authorities must immediately lift the shoot-on-sight orders, fully restore internet access across the country and end the use of army and paramilitary forces in the policing of…

  • Published: July 26, 20248:20 am
  • Author The Daily Star
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Japanese population drops by single-year record of 860,000

The country experienced its 15th consecutive year of population decline since peaking in 2009, with the largest single-year decrease in terms of both number and percentage.

  • Published: July 26, 20247:55 am
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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Sign language chatbot among S’pore innovations to get funding support from new programme

Public transport users from the deaf community will soon be able to get help with directions at Chinatown MRT station from Silvia, a chatbot that communicates in sign language.

  • Published: July 26, 20247:10 am
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East Nusa Tenggara Catholics aim for Dili to see the Pope

With only five buses available to travel the Kupang-Dili route, calls are mounting for the government to assist the swaths of people hoping to complete the nine-hour long journey…

  • Published: July 25, 202410:55 am
  • Author Yvette Tanamal
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How to say ‘no’ to a date

South Korea's social norms and pressures amplify the challenge of declining.

  • Published: July 24, 202411:25 am
  • Author Song Seung-hyun
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In major reform, Bangladesh issues circular making 93 percent of job recruitment based on merit

The remaining seven percent will be from various quotas: five percent children of freedom fighters, martyred freedom fighters and Biranganas. One percent quota has been reserved…

  • Published: July 24, 20248:40 am
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Schools in Japan’s Noto region assign hugs for homework; children still suffering trauma from quake

While many children still complain about mental and physical problems due to the lack of progress on rebuilding, more than 100 children and parents have given feedback such as…

  • Published: July 24, 20247:30 am
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Employment rates, wages drop once women become mothers in South Korea: study

Data suggest there is a persistent price women pay for having and caring for their children while working—referred to as the "motherhood penalty"—in Korea's workplaces,…

  • Published: July 23, 202410:50 am
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In South Korea, record-high college graduates not working or looking for jobs

There are 4.058 million people in the country with a college degree who are considered an "economically inactive population," which refers to those aged 15 or over who are unable…

  • Published: July 22, 20241:52 pm
  • Author Yoon Min-sik
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Birth of ‘Zombie Village’ in Jakarta due to recurring floods

'Kampung Zombie' was once densely populated with 33 families and scores of outsiders who rented locals’ houses and rooms, but now less than half of them remain.

  • Published: July 22, 20248:30 am
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