Wendy Chuang is a reporter and producer with Almost and is based in Austin, Texas.
Activism
Nine Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have been jailed for up to 10 months for participating in a banned vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
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Lawyer Nelly Mutti has become the first woman Speaker of Zambia’s parliament.
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Ayesha Malik, a judge at the Lahore High Court, is set to become the first woman judge in Pakistan’s Supreme Court in the country’s 74 year history.
Cute
London Zoo held its annual weigh-in last week on Aug. 26, weighing and measuring all of its 20,000 animals, including lions, penguins, tortoises, squirrel monkeys and camels.
Climate
Instead of snow, rain fell on the peak of Greenland’s ice cap last week for the first time on record, causing massive melting from Aug. 14 to 16.
Activism
Four student leaders from University of Hong Kong were arrested on Wednesday Aug. 18 for “advocating terrorism” after they mourned a man who attacked the police and subsequently took his own life.
Climate
Tropical Storm Grace drenched southern Haiti after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake caused heavy casualties, complicating relief efforts as the death toll surpassed 2,000.
Activism
Haitian-Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka announced she will be donating all her prize money from the Western & Southern Open to Haiti earthquake relief efforts.
Climate
Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rains hit southwestern Japan, causing at least six deaths and forcing more than five million residents to evacuate from their homes.
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The campaign to free Dubai’s Princess Latifa, who earlier this year said she was being held hostage by her family, has been disbanded after she was pictured traveling abroad on social media.
Activism
Thousands of people marched through Budapest, the capital of Hungary, in a huge pride march to protest the country’s latest anti-LGBTQ law.
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One of China’s biggest stars, rapper and former EXO member, Kris Wu, has been dropped by dozens of major brands after more than 20 women, some underage, said he had lured them into having sex with him.
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At least 212 people have been killed and more than 2,500 people arrested in South Africa after days of violent riots and looting sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.
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Calvin Krause told Almost he came up with the idea while browsing YouTube and didn’t expect to go viral.
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In the lead up and aftermath of England’s loss to Italy in the Euro 2020 final match, England football fans trashed parts of London and Black England players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka, who failed to score the penalty kick, became targets of racist abuse on social media.
LGBTQ,
A pride march in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi was canceled to protect participants from violent far-right and anti-LGBTQ protesters.