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Women at the frontline of Taiwan’s democratic renewal

From homemakers to activists, how Taiwanese women are reshaping civic power
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Entertainment for sale?

Questions grow about whether Saudi Arabia is fostering real art or merely spectacle in service of the state
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When a city loses its name

Fifteen years after Masan, Jinhae and Changwon were merged into a single “megacity”, residents still grapple with the loss of their local identities and autonomy
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After the August floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Translator’s Karachi-based contributing editor and journalist Sanam Maher, looks at BBC Urdu’s coverage of recent flooding in Pakistan.
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Housing for all? Korea’s quiet experiment

The collapse of the long-term lease system has left many Koreans exposed to unexpected risks
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Shamate: The tribe of Chinese migrant workers

How a generation of rural migrants found belonging in impossible hairstyles and neon dye
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Cracks beneath the surface

Why West Java’s tremors – felt from the city of Bandung to Bekasi – demand urgent attention to Indonesia’s fault lines
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God has gone south

A window into the overlooked history of the the exodus of Vietnam’s Catholic minority from North to South after French withdrawal
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Who gets to keep their name?

In Japan, the decades-long debate over allowing married couples to keep separate surnames has become a political stalemate
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How do we understand the Lebanese “catastrophe”?

A filmmaker grapples with how to represent Lebanon’s endless collapse
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Inside Vietnam’s biggest stock market scandal

Once hailed as a national business icon, Trịnh Văn Quyết built a billion-dollar empire through real estate and aviation. But behind the scenes, he was orchestrating one of Vietnam’s largest

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Influencers in the apocalypse

A former French cultural attaché in Jerusalem profiles Gaza’s Instagram influencers and content creators, showing how their activities shape the war, report on its horrors and provide a window onto

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