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Ms Wang has spent at least four days locked down with her date. Photo :BBC
China

Chinese woman stuck in lockdown with blind date

She said that her date had cooked every day for her while they were stranded together

Susan Arnold, Disney's chairman-elect. Photo: BBC
World+Biz

Disney names Susan Arnold as its first woman chair

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World+Biz

Red Cross names Swiss diplomat as first woman president

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World+Biz

Cuban woman says Maradona abused and raped her

Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping, member of the second crew for China's new space station, salutes at a briefing the day before launch at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, in northwest China, on Oct 14, 2021. Photo :AFP
China

Astronaut becomes first Chinese woman to spacewalk

Malaysian Parliament. Photo: Collected
World+Biz

Malaysia mandates at least one woman director in all public-listed companies

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World+Biz

New Zealand swears in first indigenous woman as Governor-general

Photo :Dorene Giacopini holds up a photo of her mother Primetta Giacopini while posing for a photo at her home in Richmond, Calif. on Monday, Sept 27, 2021. Primetta Giacopini's life ended the way it began — in a pandemic. She was two years old when she lost her mother to the Spanish flu in Connecticut in 1918. Giacopini contracted COVID-19 earlier this month. The 105-year-old struggled with the disease for a week before she died Sept. 16. Photo : Collected
Coronavirus chronicle

Woman who survived Spanish flu, world war succumbs to Covid

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South Asia

Woman who immolated self near Indian Supreme Court, dies

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Bangladesh

Woman set on fire for rejecting marriage proposal

New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul gives a news conference at the state Capitol on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Albany, NY Taking over on short notice for a scandal-plagued predecessor in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Hochul began her tenure as New York governor Tuesday, Aug. 24 with more than enough challenges for a new administration. She also began with a historic opportunity: Hochul is the first woman to hold one of the most prominent governorships in the US Photo: UNB/AP
USA

Nine women now serving as governors in US, tying a record

Police escort rescue workers carrying a person through a train station after a knife attack on a train in Tokyo, Japan August 6, 2021. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Knife attacker on Tokyo commuter train wanted to kill 'happy women'- NHK

Members of the Israeli forces approach a woman lying on the ground at the site of a security incident near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 12, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Israeli guard shoots dead a knife-wielding Palestinian woman, police say