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China holds a memorial service for Jiang Zemin

5:01am December 06, 2022

by Frank Langfitt

China is holding a memorial service for its late leader Jiang Zemin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. We reflect on his legacy and what the controversial leader means for today's China.

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Vaccine hesitancy may hamper China's efforts to ease COVID restrictions

5:10pm December 05, 2022

by John Ruwitch

China is partly adjusting its zero COVID policy by ramping up vaccinations for senior citizens. But vaccine hesitancy may be a problem for the authorities.

A sticker depicting Winnie the Pooh holding a blank paper was placed on a post as demonstrators protested in front of the Chinese Embassy in solidarity with protesters in China on Saturday in Berlin, Germany.

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Japan's Disney store sells merchandise of Winnie the Pooh supporting China's protests

3:17pm December 04, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

The online store offers shirts, mugs and other products that can be customized with an image of Pooh holding up a blank white sheet of paper, the symbol of China's lockdown protests.

A man looks on as Mount Semeru releases volcanic materials during an eruption on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022 in Lumajang, East java, Indonesia. Indonesia's highest volcano on the country's most densely populated island of Java erupted Sunday.

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Residents are evacuating as Mount Semeru, Indonesia's highest volcano, has erupted

8:13am December 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

Monsoon rains eroded and finally collapsed the lava dome atop 3,676-meter (12,060-foot) Mount Semeru, causing the eruption, according to National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari.

Many of the women in Sangeeta Siwan's Mumbai neighborhood lost their jobs during the pandemic, but they banded together to help each other through the lockdowns. From left to right: Kalawanti Yadav, Sageeta Wadule, Sangeeta Pandey and Ambika Kalshetty.

When COVID closed India, these women opened their hearts — and wallets

7:00am December 04, 2022

by Ruchi Kumar

Sangeeta Siwan lost her job and wasn't able to pay rent or feed her family. Her neighbors helped her survive. A study of giving in India during the pandemic shows she wasn't alone.

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Why countries that usually don't see dissent are now seeing their people protest

6:18pm December 03, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Larry Diamond, a Stanford professor who teaches courses on democracy and American foreign policy, about recent protests in Russia, Iran and China.

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Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions shout slogans during a rally against the government's labor policy near the National Assembly in Seoul on Saturday.

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Thousands protest in South Korea in support of truckers

9:37am December 03, 2022

by The Associated Press

Demonstrators marched in South Korea's capital denouncing government attempts to force thousands of striking truckers back to work after they walked out in a dispute over the price of freight.

Residents wearing masks wait at a public bus stop in Beijing on Saturday. Chinese authorities announced a further easing of COVID-19 curbs with major cities such as Shenzhen and Beijing no longer requiring negative tests to take public transport.

Beijing and other cities in China end required COVID-19 tests for public transit

9:06am December 03, 2022

by The Associated Press

The slight relaxation of testing requirements comes follows protests across China by residents frustrated by the rigid enforcement of anti-virus restrictions.

South Korean women take part in a march supporting feminism during a protest to mark International Women's Day in Seoul on March 8, 2019. Anti-feminism has been on the rise, turbocharged this year by President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Feminists are protesting against the wave of anti-feminism that's swept South Korea

5:00am December 03, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

Many men in South Korea claim to be victims of gender discrimination, a movement turbocharged by President Yoon. Meanwhile, women lag far behind men in pay and face unrealistic beauty standards.

The Royal Mint Court office complex, bought by the Chinese government for 255 million pounds ($311 million) in May 2018, in London, on Friday. China's controversial plan to build a new embassy on the site near the Tower of London was rejected in a Tower Hamlets council meeting on Thursday.

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London says no to a big Chinese Embassy, in a blow to Beijing ties

3:02pm December 02, 2022

by Frank Langfitt

Local officials in London rejected plans for a massive, new Chinese Embassy, a bitter setback for China's government that once promised a "golden age" for its British relations.