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Mar 31, 2022

Oklahoma and Arizona ban transgender students from girls' sports

The Republican governors of Oklahoma and Arizona signed bills banning transgender athletes from girls' school sports on Wednesday, joining a growing list of states that have passed or enacted similar laws on a contentious election-year issue.
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COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Mar 31, 2022

How China aims to treat Hong Kong's explosive COVID-19 outbreak

Hong Kong had been relatively successful in containing the virus until the emergence of the omicron variant.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 31, 2022

Driven from city life to jungle insurgency

More than a year after Myanmar's military seized full control in a coup, the country is at war, with some unlikely combatants in the fray.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 29, 2022

Shanghai residents told to stay indoors as lockdown tightened

The rules came a day after the city started sealing off its 25 million people in two stages.
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BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2022

As pandemic and war send prices soaring, people are changing how they eat

The cost of basics such as bread, meat and cooking oils have jumped across the world, sending shock waves through commodity markets and damaging the global food system.
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JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Mar 28, 2022

From Gifu to the world: LA exhibition to showcase traditional Japanese pottery

“The Art of the Ramen Bowl” features bowls made by potters in the Tono region of the former province of Mino, and aims to introduce the rich art of their pottery to the world.
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LIFE / Travel
Mar 28, 2022

Rishiri Island is a backcountry skiing paradise, as long as there’s a break in the weather

Winter is harsh on this remote island off Hokkaido's northwestern tip, where you can ski above the sea.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2022

China's COVID-19 spike preceded by surge in cases from Hong Kong

Health officials in Shenzhen and Shanghai have pointed to lax oversight in quarantine facilities for arrivals as a potential cause for the virus's spread.
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
Mar 26, 2022

Biden eyes long-term hydrogen breakthrough in plan to send gas to EU

The U.S. says the infrastructure needed under a plan to boost natural gas shipments to Europe will be built so that it can be converted later to distribute climate-friendly hydrogen.
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WORLD
Mar 24, 2022

China’s Xi leaves Zelenskyy out of Ukraine diplomatic push

Xi has spoken with at least eight world leaders in the month since the invasion, stressing Beijing's preference for dialogue over war and sanctions.
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WORLD
Mar 24, 2022

Madeleine Albright, first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state, dies at 84

A child of Czech refugees who fled from Nazi invaders and Communist oppressors, Albright flourished as a diplomat and the first woman to serve as secretary of state.
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WORLD
Mar 24, 2022

Ukraine using facial recognition to ID dead Russian soldiers, minister says

The country has declined to specify the number of bodies identified through facial recognition but has said the percentage of recognized individuals claimed by families has been 'high.'
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PODCAST / deep dive
Mar 23, 2022

One month into war, a Ukrainian family reunites in Japan

Kanako Takahara explains Japan's efforts to help these refugees, and why the government here isn't calling them by that name.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 23, 2022

China builds makeshift hospitals to help cope with COVID-19

The country's provinces should set up at least two to three temporary hospitals each to treat virus patients, Beijing has said.
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COMMENTARY
Mar 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence gets scarier and scarier

AI technologies are the most powerful tools that have been developed in generations — perhaps even in human history — and with such advancements come a magnitude of dangers.
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LIFE / Language / Vocabulary Boost
Mar 22, 2022

Describing an invasion and expressing unity in Japanese amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict

As the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues, Japanese-language learners are discovering that there's no shortage of terms relating to “invasion” and “unity.”
CULTURE / Books
Mar 20, 2022

‘A Fictional Commons’: Rethinking alternatives to capitalism with literature

Michael Bourdaghs compellingly shows how influential literary figure Natsume Soseki imbued his classic works with challenges to the constrictive, patriarchal systems of property control.
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WORLD
Mar 18, 2022

Why Vladimir Putin invokes Nazis to justify his invasion of Ukraine

The 'Nazi” slur's sudden emergence shows how Putin is trying to use stereotypes, distorted reality and his country's lingering World War II trauma to justify his invasion of Ukraine.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 18, 2022

Clear roadmap needed for Hong Kong's revival amid COVID wave, experts say

Deaths have skyrocketed, the health system is swamped, morgues are overflowing and public confidence in the city government is at an all-time low.
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WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 17, 2022

European leaders' risky Kyiv mission took even close family by surprise

The trip to a city under siege, where Ukraine's military is fighting invading Russian forces just a few kilometers from the periphery, was hastily arranged and known only to a few people.
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PODCAST / deep dive
Mar 16, 2022

Where is Japan's Great Resignation?

This week, senior staff writer Alex Martin joins to discuss the changing face of work in Japan, and why so few people seem inclined to switch roles.
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2022

Japan to revoke Russia's most favored nation trade status

The U.S., EU and U.K. have announced similar moves following a G7 leaders' statement describing actions to deny the preferred trade status to Moscow.

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