It’s widely discussed in China: Employers don’t want you after 35. Some job listings say it plainly, leaving a generation of prime-age workers feeling defeated. By Li Yuan June 28, 2023Updated 4:21 a.m. ET “When Sean Liang turned 30, he started thinking of the Curse of 35 — the widespread belief in China that white-collar workers like …
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Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation. By Robert D. McFadden June 16, 2023 “Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who after experiencing a sobbing antiwar epiphany on a bathroom floor made the momentous decision in 1971 to disclose a secret …
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The president who declared “the battle between democracy and autocracy” to be the defining struggle of his time has concluded that he needs to accept some imperfect but important friends. By Peter Baker and Mujib Mashal Peter Baker reported from Washington, and Mujib Mashal from New Delhi. June 21, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET “President Biden has declared “the battle …
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Companies are moving headquarters and factories outside the country and cleaving off their Chinese businesses. It’s not clear the strategy will work. By Ana Swanson Reporting from Washington June 15, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET “As it expanded internationally, Shein, the rapidly growing fast fashion app, progressively cut ties to its home country, China. It moved its headquarters to …
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Thousands of Indian women have been abandoned by men working overseas, leaving them trapped in their in-laws’ homes and often defrauded of dowry money. By Sameer Yasir Reporting from Gurdaspur, Ludhiana and Mohali in the Indian state of Punjab June 13, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET “Like many other women in the state of Punjab, long a hub …
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Remembering a Massacre That China Keeps Trying to Erase June 7, 2023 By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “In all my decades of reporting, one of my most searing experiences came in 1989 in Beijing when I watched the Chinese People’s Liberation Army unleash weapons of war on throngs of unarmed pro-democracy protesters. So I was …
Aid groups in the war-torn country say they are having trouble gaining access to areas affected by the storm without approval from the junta. By Richard C. Paddock May 18, 2023Updated 8:51 a.m. ET “Four days after Cyclone Mocha made landfall in Myanmar, killing hundreds and devastating communities in its path, aid groups seeking to deliver humanitarian …
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It’s a long-buried part of South Korean history: women compelled by force, trickery or desperation into prostitution, with the complicity of their own leaders. By Choe Sang-Hun Photographs by Jean Chung Choe Sang-Hun examined unsealed government documents and interviewed six women who worked in camp towns around American military bases in South Korea for this article. May …
After years of saying it would not choose sides, the Philippines is now asserting a need to stand up to China’s territorial moves in the South China Sea. By Sui-Lee Wee Reporting from joint military exercises in San Antonio, Philippines April 26, 2023Updated 8:50 a.m. ET 5 MIN READ “When China’s foreign minister visited the Philippines last …
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An ousted populist’s daughter seeks office, fueling concerns that the return of a divisive political dynasty may revive instability, too. By Sui-Lee Wee and Muktita Suhartono Reporting from Bangkok April 24, 2023Updated 10:23 a.m. ET 6 MIN READ “For close to two decades, the military and conservative establishment in Thailand has sought to keep former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his …
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