FILLING A VOID: The nontraditional structures could offer an alternative for single women worried about aging alone, Lilith Jiang said at ‘Half the Sky’
Laughter erupts over a board game and coffee at a rural cottage in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang, one of a growing number of women-only coliving spaces far from social pressures and male judgement.Women come to share mutual support and “talk freely about intimate stuff,” while others seek com
Words popularized by Gen Z and Gen Alpha, including “skibidi,” “delulu” and “tradwife” are among 6,000 new entries to the online edition of the Cambridge Dictionary over the past year, its publisher said yesterday.Cambridge University Press said tradwife, a portmanteau of traditional wife, reflected
Myanmar’s junta yesterday said that long-promised elections would start on Dec. 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the nation out of its control and international monitors slating the poll as a charade.Myanmar has been consumed by conflict since the military deposed the government o
Gunmen shot dead at least seven people at a pool hall in the Ecuadoran city of Santo Domingo, police said on Sunday, in the nation’s latest gruesome massacre amid soaring gang violence.“Seven people died from gunshot wounds” at a pool hall in the nightlife district of Santo Domingo, about 150km west
A military court yesterday found a New Zealand soldier guilty of attempted espionage for a foreign power — the first spying conviction in the nation’s history.The soldier was caught offering to pass military base maps and photographs to an undercover officer posing as an agent for the foreign nation
INVASION: While protesters demanded an end to the war, Israel’s far-right Cabinet began preparations to take over Gaza City and force its residents to leave again
Protestors in Israel demanding their government make a deal to secure the release of hostages held by militants in Gaza escalated their campaign yesterday, staging a strike that snarled traffic and shuttered businesses.The action organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum marked a fresh pu
‘NO FASCIST TAKEOVER’: The deployment of the National Guard to Washington has sparked opposition among locals, who cited ‘unmarked officers’ detaining people
Three Republican-led states on Saturday said that they were deploying hundreds of US National Guard members to Washington to bolster US President Donald Trump’s effort to overhaul policing in the capital through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness.West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to
On a recent evening in Senegal ‘s capital of Dakar, an imam named Ibrahima Diane explained to a group of men why they should be more involved in household chores.“The Prophet himself says a man who does not help support his wife and children is not a good Muslim,” the 53-year-old said, as he describ
Angry protesters clashed with police in a town in western Serbia and in the capital, Belgrade, on Saturday, as tensions soared further in the Balkan nation following days of violent demonstrations.Wearing scarves over their faces and chanting slogans against Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, a gro
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Ted Hui (許智?) has been granted asylum in Australia, the former lawmaker said on Saturday, more than four years after he left Hong Kong, where he faces criminal charges over the 2019 pro-democracy protests.Hui said he received written notice from the Australian Depart
Participants dressed as Indonesian independence fighters pedal Dutch colonial-era vintage bikes called “Onthel” after taking part in the 80th Indonesian Independence Day ceremony in Yogyakarta yesterday.
‘FOR PEACE’: The summit combined made-for-TV pageantry with the backdrop of US power, including Putin’s unexpected ride with Trump in ‘The Beast’
Stepping foot on Western soil for the first time since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin basked in choreographed pageantry courtesy of US President Donald Trump — but was also confronted by signs of US power.In made-for-television images, Putin and Trump each flew
Outside Havana, a combine belonging to a private Vietnamese company is harvesting rice, directly farming Cuban land — in a first — to help address acute food shortages in the country. The Cuban government has granted Agri VAM, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s Fujinuco Group, 1,000 hectares of arable land i
FORUM: The Solomon Islands’ move to bar Taiwan, the US and others from the Pacific Islands Forum has sparked criticism that Beijing’s influence was behind the decision
Tuvaluan Prime Minister Feletei Teo said his country might pull out of the region’s top political meeting next month, after host nation Solomon Islands moved to block all external partners — including China, the US and Taiwan — from attending.The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders’ meeting is to be
Pierre Poilievre, who is running to reclaim a seat in Canada’s parliament next week, was on track to be Canadian prime minister until US President Donald Trump upended Canadian politics. However, even if the Canadian Conservative Party leader wins tomorrow’s by-election in one of the country’s most
The African Union (AU) has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts conti
‘DEFENSE SHIELD’: On Indian Independence Day, Narendra Modi pledged energy self-reliance and vowed to ‘stand like a wall’ against foreign pressure
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said that India is seeking self-reliance in energy independence and the development of its own powerful defense systems, vowing to defend his country’s interests “like a wall.”Modi delivered his annual Indian Independence Day address from the imposing ra
STAGNATION: Once a bastion of leftist politics, the Aymara stronghold of El Alto is showing signs of shifting right ahead of the presidential election
A giant cruise ship dominates the skyline in the city of El Alto in landlocked Bolivia, a symbol of the transformation of an indigenous bastion keenly fought over in tomorrow’s presidential election.The “Titanic,” as the tallest building in the city is known, serves as the latest in a collection of
Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its World War II defeat yesterday, with at least one Cabinet minister joining thousands of visitors at a shrine that Japan’s Asian neighbors view as a symbol of its wartime aggression.Japanese Minister of Agriculture Shinchiro Koizumi, a contender in the ruling L
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