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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he was proud MPs had voted to back gay marriage but admitted the debate has been divisive and said his focus would now be on economic matters. The Conservative leader offered an olive branch to party activists opposed to the same-sex marriage bill by promising there would be no more laws on social issues before the next election in 2015. “If you are saying to me, ‘Is this the first of many other issues like that?’, no it isn’t,” Cameron told BBC radio, the day after the bill cleared a crucial parliamentary hurdle. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Rep. Karen Clark, on May 18th, 2013 A bid to legalize discrimination backfired—and emboldened equality activists, says state Rep. Karen Clark.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people on the mainland have heard colleagues use insulting language or tell offensive jokes about LGBT people, resulting in most choosing to stay in the closet, according to a report released in Beijing yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ten rights lawyers petitioned a key National People’s Congress commission yesterday, calling for legitimising same-sex marriage on the mainland, ahead of today’s annual International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. The lawyers, from law firms across the mainland, signed a joint letter calling for the law committee of the NPC to study the legalisation of gay marriage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A growing divide between rich and poor risks will yawn still wider if cash-strapped governments keep cutting back the welfare state, an industrialised nations’ think-tank warned on Wednesday. Weighing into a debate on inequality in developed countries, the 33-nation Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said welfare spending had mitigated an increase in the wealth gap that emerged with the 2008-2009 financial crisis, but that was running out. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng said on Tuesday that change in his country was “inevitable” but should be the work of the Chinese themselves rather than be imposed from the outside. “China will undergo a transformation, this is inevitable and in fact this has already begun,” said Chen, a blind self-taught lawyer who dramatically escaped house arrest last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A new report, based on 140 interviews with sex workers, clients, police, public health officials and NGO workers, calls on the government to legalise solicitation, end crackdowns and prohibit arbitrary arrests and detentions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> On the day when a Hong Kong transsexual won the right to marry as a woman, New Zealand had already become the first Asia-Pacific country to legalise same-sex marriage. While there is no sign of any Asian government following this precedent any time soon, the emerging faces of China’s sexual minorities epitomise a growing challenge facing a traditional society in the fast lane of modernisation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The arrival of the 11 women, who will begin working tomorrow after a two-day orientation, marks the beginning of the official importation of maids from the country, which it is hoped will ease a shortage of domestic workers in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 10th, 2013 Something to ponder this weekend from Timothy Noah’s book, The Great Divergence:
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on Chinese government extravagance has emptied top-end restaurants and dented the sale of expensive food and drink, putting downward pressure on the world’s second largest economy. High-end caterers in Beijing and other big cities have borne the brunt of Xi’s austerity drive, which he launched in November in an attempt to tackle pervasive corruption and allay criticism of the lifestyles led by some officials. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s richest people are stepping up investment in US real estate and other foreign assets as they try to preserve their fortunes in the face of a fast-changing economy, a report said on Tuesday. The report by China Merchants Bank and the consulting firm Bain & Company in China reflects uncertainties about abrupt shifts in an economy in which growth slowed last year to 7.8 per cent from the past decade’s double-digit rates. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> After six consecutive years of brutal recession, with homeless and unemployment rates skyrocketing, Greek society is experiencing an “unheard-of fragmentation”, made worse by fierce austerity measures, experts say. Battered by the eurozone’s three-year debt crisis and four years of austerity, Greece has the highest unemployment rate in the 27-nation European Union, with more than one in four people out of work. And this economic crisis has now transformed into a social emergency, according to UN expert on debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safer work conditions and the death penalty for the owner of a building housing garment factories that collapsed last week in the country’s worst industrial disaster, killing at least 402 people and injuring 2,500. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By SARAH MASLIN NIR, on April 30th, 2013 The movement won accolades for its hurricane recovery efforts, but some members say it has strayed from its core message of income inequality.
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The government should scrap the mandatory live-in rule and cap working hours for foreign domestic workers, according to advocacy groups. They will take their call for legislative change to Victoria Park, the Indonesian consulate and the government headquarters today as part of Labour Day activities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Yes, there is an iceberg, as some legislators suspect. The tip we are now seeing exposes the nauseating extravagance of former ICAC commissioner Timothy Tong Hin-ming at taxpayers’ expense. The iceberg runs deep. But what lies underneath doesn’t solely represent Tong’s misdeeds. It represents the entrenched culture of extravagance that contaminates our entire civil service. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The education system may need an overhaul to improve opportunities for those stuck in a lower class life, an education researcher suggested after a survey found widespread pessimism among young people on their chances of climbing the social ladder. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The city’s happiness level, as measured by an annual survey, dropped to the level in 2008, the year of the global financial crisis. And the least happy are those in the “sandwich class”, whose incomes exclude them from government help without offering them financial comfort. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Afghanistan’s policewomen suffer sexual assault by male colleagues, often inside police stations, a rights group said on Thursday, calling for women-only toilets and changing facilities to curb such abuse. Addressing the concerns of policewomen is necessary to address the “rampant violence” against women in the wider society, said Human Rights Watch. “Harassment and abuse is an everyday experience for many Afghan women,” said HRW Asia director Brad Adams. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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British PM David Cameron ‘proud’ of gay marriage bill but economy now focus
<!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he was proud MPs had voted to back gay marriage but admitted the debate has been divisive and said his focus would now be on economic matters. The Conservative leader offered an olive branch to party activists opposed to the same-sex marriage bill by promising there would be no more laws on social issues before the next election in 2015. “If you are saying to me, ‘Is this the first of many other issues like that?’, no it isn’t,” Cameron told BBC radio, the day after the bill cleared a crucial parliamentary hurdle. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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