What are Indonesia’s regional elections and why do they matter?
Indonesia will hold regional elections on Nov 27, in which its 203 million registered voters will choose more than 500 local leaders.
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Shared housing points to new possibilities in South Korea
These buildings, while still few in number and mostly hidden from sight in the densely packed city of Seoul, offer the possibility of different lifestyles.
Can Lahore learn from London’s Great Smog of 1952?
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Mass casualty attacks in China put focus on mental health as economy slows
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Japan to hold 1st memorial for Korean forced labour victims at Sado mine
Key details, including Japan's government representative, remain undecided days ahead of memorial service.
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‘Monsoon brides’: Extreme weather fuels Pakistan child marriages
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A sacred struggle: South Hnila Temple community calls for an end to encroachment
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‘Korea, don’t repeat Hong Kong’s mistakes on foreign caregivers’
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As the world melts around them, climate refugees in Pakistan’s Hunza pin hopes on COP29
These 'climate refugees' are forced to flee their ancestral land as rising temperatures and melting glaciers increasingly threaten their way of life.