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During Hong Kong's Occupy Central protests in 2014, Aria listened to Lady Gaga, put on makeup and wore cute outfits, embracing the ubiquitous "Goddess of Democracy" moniker at a time when online polls asked whether the city's few female leaders were wife or girlfriend ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) will take centuries to eradicate despite world leaders promising to end the practice by 2030, according to United Nations data released on Thursday. FGM remains as common today as 30 years ago in Somalia, Mali, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Chad and Senegal, ...

U.S. astronaut Christina Koch is set to return to Earth on Thursday after shattering the spaceflight record for female astronauts by spending almost a year aboard the International Space Station. Koch is to touch down in the Kazakh steppes with colleagues Luca Parmitano of the ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) said Tuesday that it has developed a smartphone app for sharing reports of train gropers that it will test on its Saikyo Line, notorious for the frequency of such incidents. Around 25 passengers including employees of JR East will ...

100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Feb. 11 1920 Great enthusiasm for universal suffrage THE JAPAN TIMES A demonstration demanding universal suffrage immediately to be held on Kigensetsu, the great national holiday, under the leadership of the Kenseikai, Kokuminto and the Universal Suffrage Society, promises to be one of the ...

The masked woman nervously approaches her target, shuffles into position and then unleashes a flurry of lashes — proving herself as the newest member of the first female flogging squad in Indonesia's Aceh province. The new recruit initially needed some coaxing to punish the offender, ...

Women in media are discriminated against first by being women, and then in the way they work once they have children.

As Goldman Sachs Group Inc. moves to increase diversity on corporate boards, the investment bank isn't extending the initiative to a particularly challenged region: Asia. Chief Executive Officer David Solomon revealed last week that starting in July the bank won't handle initial public offerings for ...

A sex crime victim gave a lecture at a seminar held for criminal judges at a facility related to the Supreme Court in October last year, informed sources said Saturday. The seminar, held at the Legal Training and Research Institute, was designed to help participating ...