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Teetotallers in hard-drinking Japan raise glass to more booze-free bars
TOKYO • At a trendy Tokyo cocktail bar, customers sip brightly coloured beverages with sophisticated flavour profiles, designed for a small but growing market in hard-drinking Japan: teetotallers.
Covid-19 drives more in India to hold Hindu ritual for the dead online
Salvation could now just be a Zoom call away with the traditional Hindu ritual for the dead - the pind daan - increasingly moving online because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Tokyo's 'Harajuku for Grandmas' losing appeal among the elderly
Harajuku is renowned as Tokyo's mecca for outlandish youth culture, but over in the city's north-west is a district called Sugamo that has come to be affectionately known as "Harajuku for Grandmas".
America faces a “loneliness pandemic,” too, says former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
Lockdowns, social distancing and isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic can take a toll on mental health, Dr. Vivek Murthy told Ian Bremmer on GZERO World. While maintaining distance and avoiding group gatherings is necessary at this time, we must also be mindful of having meaningful interactions with friends and family. Dr. Murthy discusses how this unprecedented moment could lead to either a "social recession" or "social revival" depending on what path we take as a nation.
TikTok gave rural Indian women fame, fun and more
NEW DELHI (AFP) - When India banned TikTok, it closed a window to the wider world for legions of women outside the big cities that provided fun, fame and even fortune.
Australia promises national vote on recognition of indigenous people by 2022
SYDNEY (REUTERS) - Australia will hold a national vote within three years on whether to include recognition of indigenous people in its constitution, the government said on Wednesday (July 10), an issue that has spurred decades of often heated debate.
Why China is letting its digital slaves rise up
In one week in late April, the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin recorded at least 29 instances of labour unrest in China. They included protests against unpaid wages at a recycling company, a taxi drivers' strike, two food delivery drivers' strikes, a protest over unpaid pensions at a mining company and a sanitation workers' strike over non-payment of overtime and other wages.