Thaipusam: Group warns to spray paint women ‘inappropriately dressed’
Petaling Jaya – A Facebook group has warned Hindu women to expect being sprayed with paint should they be “inappropriately dressed” at Thaipusam events. “Thaipusam Spraying Group” page creator, Henry...
View ArticleMorocco TV channel censured over makeup for battered women
Rabat – A public television station in Morocco was given an official reprimand on Tuesday for broadcasting a sequence on how to use make-up to conceal the bruises of battered women. It was transmitted...
View Article6 men arrested over horrific attack on two women tourists
Beijing – Six men have been arrested in a famous tourist town in southwest China in connection with a horrific assault of two women late last year, local police said in an online statement on...
View ArticleWomen, children attacked in Dortmund fan clash
Germany – Borussia Dortmund have threatened to ban any fans responsible for the violent attacks on RB Leipzig supporters, including children and women, that led to 28 arrests before a Bundesliga...
View ArticleArgentine women stage topless protest claiming sunbathers’ rights
Buenos Aires – Dozens of topless women, joined by hundreds of fully clothed protesters, demonstrated in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to demand the right to sunbathe semi-nude after police asked...
View Article2 foreign women charged with murder of North Korean
Sepang – Two foreign women were charged in the Magistrate’s Court here today with the murder of a North Korean man at KL International Airport 2 on Feb 13. Siti Aisyah, 25, an Indonesian national, and...
View ArticleExclusive – Trump administration considering separating women, children at...
Washington – Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U.S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security,...
View ArticleNepal to probe report of women selling skin for penis enlargements
Kathmandu – Nepal said it will investigate a report claiming poor women are being trafficked and duped into selling their skin to be used for penis and breast enlargements in the global cosmetic...
View ArticleWhy women should eat chocolate during pregnancy
The health benefits of chocolate have long been studied, and now they are being presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, as researchers explored...
View ArticleBusiness Seminar for Women by Nanban
Kuala Lumpur – As an effort to inculcate interest in business amongst Indians, Datuk Shafie Zaman, Malaysia Nanban’s (Tamil daily) Managing Director had organized a business seminar for women,...
View ArticleMeet Mumbai’s first women rickshaw drivers
Mumbai – Chaya Mohite slowly turns the accelerator as she carefully edges the salmon-coloured rickshaw forward, one of Mumbai’s first female auto drivers to make use of a government scheme aimed at...
View Article3 Pakistani women confess to killing man over blasphemy
Islambad – Police say three female friends in a rare incident have confessed to killing a man for insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad days after he returned from living in hiding abroad for 13 years....
View ArticleDeadly secret: The illegal abortions killing Myanmar’s women
Yang On – Thiri’s heart started pounding and her whole body shook after she swallowed the final dose of pills that would end her unwanted pregnancy in a Yangon hotel. Her boyfriend had abandoned her...
View ArticleThree London women charged with terrorism offences – Police
Three women from London, including a mother and daughter, were charged on Wednesday with preparation of a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder, police said. Khawla Barghouthi, 20, of northwest...
View ArticleIndia’s top court reviews Islam’s ‘triple talaq’ divorce, women cheer
Mumbai – India’s top court on Thursday began examining whether it is legal for a Muslim man to dump his wife by saying ‘I divorce you’ three times, raising hopes among women campaigners of a...
View ArticleFasting tips for pregnant women
Ramadan and pregnant women Studies reveal that about 75% of Muslim women in the world who are pregnant decide to fast for Ramadan. However, the way of fasting or observing Ramadan may vary from people...
View ArticleUS warns of new reports Congo troops killing, raping women, children
United Nations – The United States warned on Friday that it had received new reports from within Democratic Republic of Congo accusing Congolese troops of actively carrying out a campaign of killing...
View ArticleKang makes first LPGA title a major with Women’s PGA win
American Danielle Kang birdied the par-5 18th hole Sunday to edge defending champion Brooke Henderson and win the Women’s PGA Championship, making her first LPGA triumph a major victory. Kang, who...
View ArticleM’sia’s 4x100m women’s relay team set new national record in Bhubaneswar
Kuala Lumpur – The national women’s 4x100m relay quartet set a new national record in finishing fifth at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Bhubaneswar, India on Thursday. The foursome of...
View ArticleFrench women’s world champion Duchemin dies at 26
France’s women’s world featherweight champion Angelique Duchemin died aged 26 on Tuesday after suffering a heart problem in training. Duchemin fell ill at her boxing club in Thuir in the Pyrenees...
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