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Indonesia’s vice-president calls for better flight security in Papua

The country’s easternmost region has been plagued by severe underdevelopment and exploitation, which has galvanized a separatist movement that has simmered for decades.

  • Published: February 13, 20238:53 am
  • Author A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil
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2023 trends that are redefining engagement jewellery

From lab-grown diamonds to coloured stones, the rocks are ethically sourced; for Ms Chen Meihui, an unheated Montana sapphire.

  • Published: February 10, 20232:30 pm
  • Author Ann Asianews Network
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Child abuse and our crumbling social norms

There is a bias against the poor that leads to a general acceptance of violence against them.

  • Published: February 10, 20231:21 pm
  • Author Mahfuz Anam
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Helping marginalised people in China get justice

Seeing his father curl up on the sickbed in pain, Tang made up his mind to learn sign language so that he would be able to help his parents communicate.

  • Published: February 10, 202312:14 pm
  • Author Wang Ru
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The troubling rise of ‘revenge porn’ in Nepal

This has become a common form of abuse in the country, and is particularly harming young women.

  • Published: February 10, 202312:09 pm
  • Author Anup Ojha
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Tokyo police seize patient from NPO in organ transplant probe

The director of the nonprofit organisation is suspected of arranging overseas organ transplants without permission from the Health, Labor, and Welfare ministry.

  • Published: February 10, 20239:15 am
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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Biological, adoptive parents fight over compensation

Three months after the drowning of a 16-year-old adopted girl, the ex-gratia award by the special relief commissioner has split two families apart.

  • Published: February 10, 20239:14 am
  • Author The Statesman
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Declining births in China trigger calls for action

Experts said that all-out efforts must be made to raise the low fertility rate so as to counter the persistent downward trend and avert a sharp population decline in the long…

  • Published: February 10, 20238:55 am
  • Author Wang Xiaoyu
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Japan’s LDP expected to struggle with LGBT bill

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is also president of the LDP, has a positive stance on the bill following discriminatory comments made against sexual minorities by a former…

  • Published: February 9, 20232:54 pm
  • Author The Yomiuri Shimbun
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Public health for Indonesia’s new capital city needs careful planning: Experts

While diseases like dengue fever are not unique to East Kalimantan, health experts say that ongoing deforestation to make way for new construction poses an increased risk of human…

  • Published: February 9, 20232:51 pm
  • Author Dio Suhenda

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