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Transgender woman wins case against female-only app
David Wise, Published on 23/08/2024
» SYDNEY - An Australian court ruled on Friday that removing a transgender woman from female-only social networking platform Giggle for Girls constituted discrimination, in a landmark decision on gender identity for the country.
Video of violent arrest at Manchester Airport sparks protest
Reuters, Published on 25/07/2024
» LONDON - A video showing a British police officer kick and stamp on a man's head during an arrest at Manchester airport in northern England sparked a protest outside a police station late on Wednesday night.
North Korea ‘planting more landmines’ on border
Published on 17/07/2024
» SEOUL - North Korean soldiers have been installing landmines and barriers and creating a wasteland along the front line for months despite accidents, the South Korean military said on Wednesday.
China's new 'giant panda college' to welcome first students in autumn
Published on 15/07/2024
» HONG KONG: China's only higher education institute to offer giant panda studies is set to enrol its first students this autumn, giving them the opportunity to observe the bears closely at nature reserves, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Suitcases found on UK bridge ‘held human remains’
Published on 12/07/2024
» LONDON - British police said on Friday that the human remains found in two suitcases at the famous Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol were those of two adult men and that the main suspect had travelled from London with the bags.
Civil servant nabbed for trying to photograph bathing women in Tokyo
Published on 12/07/2024
» TOKYO: An employee at Japan's Foreign Ministry has been arrested for allegedly trespassing and attempting to secretly photograph an area for female bathers at a Tokyo bathhouse, police said on Friday.
Hong Kong launches first bus route with women drivers only, sets up rest facility for them
Published on 05/07/2024
» HONG KONG: Franchised bus firm KMB has launched Hong Kong's first route with women drivers only and set up a rest facility that prioritises female workers at terminuses as part of its efforts to buck gender stereotypes.
Female suicide bombers suspected in Nigerian blasts that kill 18
Published on 30/06/2024
» Female suicide bombers are suspected in a string of attacks that left at least 18 people dead and dozens injured in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday.
Japan court rules trans woman 'father' of girl born after switch
South China Morning Post, Published on 22/06/2024
» TOKYO - Japan's top court on Friday recognised a transgender woman as the "father" of her 3-year-old daughter conceived using her frozen sperm and born to her female partner after legally transitioning, in the first such ruling.
Can women benefit from Viagra?
New York Times, Published on 21/06/2024
» It is a question that sexual medicine researchers have puzzled over since at least the late 1990s, when the Food and Drug Administration approved sildenafil, known as Viagra, for men.