1. Maria Ressa named Time magazine’s Person of the Year Filipino journalist Maria Ressa is one of the journalists, including the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who were named as Person of the Year by...
News Roundup
It’s easy to miss what’s important in the flood of daily articles and snippets, so we round up the world news that were most interesting for Asian women this month.
April Editors
November News Roundup: Dolce & Gabbana Fall Flat and Google Faces Walkout
1. Women’s rights activists jailed and physically abused in Saudi Arabia Several women’s rights activists have been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since May this year, and subjected to psychological and physical torture...
Helen Yeung
October News Roundup: Know Your Power
1. #MeToo makes the headlines in India Almost a year after Tarana Burke’s #MeToo hit Hollywood, the movement has made its way to India, with prominent Bollywood stars breaking the silence on experiences of sexual...
September News Round Up: What Mattered to Asian Women
1. Padma Lakshmi opened up about her past The American celebrity Padma Lakshmi revealed that she was raped at 16 and stayed silent. She’s 48 now. What triggered her to open up now? Two names in one (head)line:...
Youjin Lee
Beloved anime creator dies, blind woman turned Judo champion (29/08/18)
Creator of much-loved anime series ‘Chibi Maruko-chan’ dies from breast cancer. Momoko Sakura, creator of the popular manga and anime series “Chibi Maruko-chan” about a little Japanese girl called Maruko, died of breast...
Scotland’s progress for female students, first African-American woman mayor of San Francisco (28/08/18)
Scotland to be the world’s first country to offer free sanitary products to tertiary students nationwide. Scotland will be the world’s first country to offer free sanitary products to students at schools, colleges...
Sociologist talks inequality in Singapore, Asian MRAs attack female writer (27/08/18)
Book on poverty and inequality by Singaporean-Chinese woman Teo You Yenn flies off the shelf. In February, Singaporean-Chinese sociologist Teo You Yenn released her book “This is What Inequality Looks Like,” and it has...
Muslim woman forced to reveal menstrual pad, first female fighter pilot (24/08/18)
Muslim woman forced to reveal her menstrual pad by TSA during airport screening. A Muslim woman named Zainab Merchant was traveling from Boston to Washington D.C. for a speaking engagement last Thursday, when...
Woman censored for reporting under-skirt photos, Netflix welcomes Asian lead (23/08/18)
Communication app Telegram used to share un-consented under-skirt photos of women in Hong Kong. A recent outcry on social media by Hong Kong woman Emilia Wong, has shown that a group with more than 10,000 members on the...
Star Wars actress fights back online abuse, LGBT nightclub raided in Malaysia (22/08/18)
Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran fights back sexist and racist abuse on social media. Actress Kelly Marie Tran who played rebel mechanic Rose Tico in last year’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” has spoken out against the...
Chinese women as ‘fertility resources’, soul legend Aretha Franklin dies (21/08/18)
A pharmaceutical company’s campaign sparks controversy as they push for women to have babies in China. A Chinese pharmaceutical company’s subway advertising campaign has sparked outrage amongst passengers as it urged...
Chinese photographer rebels against gender norms, families reunited in North Korea (20/08/18)
Chinese photographer Luo Yang challenges gender norms through power portraits of young women. The Shenyang-born photographer Luo Yang began her project “Girls” during her early 20s while studying graphic...