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Indonesia passes legislation banning sex outside marriage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...tside-marriage

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Indonesia’s parliament has overhauled the country’s criminal code to outlaw sex outside marriage and curtail free speech, in a dramatic setback to freedoms in the world’s third-largest democracy.

Passed with support from all political parties, the draconian legislation has shocked not only rights activists but also the country’s booming tourism sector, which relies on a stream of visitors to its tropical islands.

Newspapers in Australia have labelled the legislation the “Bali bonk ban” as the law will apply to Indonesians and visiting foreigners. More than 1 million Australians visit Indonesia each year, with many heading to Bali for its yoga retreats, surfing and all-night beach parties.

Maulana Yusran, the deputy chief of Indonesia’s tourism industry board, said the code was “totally counterproductive” and introduced just as the country was trying to recover from the pandemic. “We deeply regret the government have closed their eyes,” he said.

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Ba tư thì bắt trùm, Nam dương thì cấm cởi.

Ngày mai trong đám Nam dương đó
Có kẻ vô tù bỏ cuộc… chơi
(Hàn ngục tử)

Khai bớt tuổi: Yu Soo Young

South Koreans to become younger as traditional age system scrapped
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ystem-scrapped

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South Koreans are deemed to be a year old when they are born, and a year is added every 1 January. The unusual – and increasingly unpopular – custom means a baby born on New Year’s Eve becomes two years old as soon as the clock strikes midnight.

The complications do not end there: a separate system exists for calculating the age of men entering national service and the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke. In those cases, a person’s age is calculated from zero at birth and a year is added on New Year’s Day.

The system’s origins are unclear. One theory is that turning one year old at birth takes into account time spent in the womb – with nine months rounded up to 12. Others link it to an ancient Asian numerical system that did not have the concept of zero.

Explanations for the extra year added on 1 January are more complicated. Some experts point to the theory that ancient Koreans placed their year of birth within the Chinese 60-year calendar cycle, but, at a time when there were no regular calendars, tended to ignore the day of their birth and simply added on a whole year on the first day of the lunar calendar. The extra year on 1 January became commonplace as more South Koreans began observing the western calendar.

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Ngày mai trong đám Ko ria đó
Có kẻ theo thời bỏ một năm
(Hàn quốc tử)

Tử vì đạo:

Iran carries out second execution linked to nationwide protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nwide-protests

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Rahnavard, a 23-year-old wrestler, had been sentenced to death by a court in the city of Mashhad for allegedly killing two members of the Basij volunteer force and wounding four others. The Basij force, affiliated with the country’s Revolutionary Guards, has been at the forefront of the state crackdown on protests.

Iranian media has printed the names of 25 other people who faced the death sentence in relation to the protests, which were sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.

On Thursday, Iran hanged Mohsen Shekari, who had been convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran, the first such execution after thousands of arrests over the unrest, drawing western condemnation. During his trial, Shekari showed signs of torture visible on his face, his uncle Mahmoud Shekari told the Guardian.

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Một ngàn năm nô lệ giặc Hồi
Một trăm năm nô lệ giặc Mông
Bốn ba năm dưới ách độc tài
(Gia tài của con)

Không say không về:

‘Road sleeping’ deaths soar in Tokyo
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...e-covid-levels

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Concern is rising that the death toll will rise again over the coming fortnight, as office workers get together to mark the end of the year at alcohol-fuelled bonenkai parties – a custom many shunned during the pandemic.

According to police, 10 of the people killed in Tokyo so far this year had been drinking before they were struck while sitting or lying in the road.

Bonenkai (“forget the year”) parties are supposed to be an opportunity for colleagues who spend hours together in the workplace to get together for an evening of nomunication, a portmanteau of the Japanese verb to drink, nomu, and communication.

In 2020, police in Okinawa reported more than 7,000 cases of rojo-ne – literally sleeping on the road – the previous year, a phenomenon some attribute to the southern island’s balmy weather and enthusiastic consumption of awamori, a strong local spirit.

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Say sưa nghĩ cũng uổng đời
Uổng thì uổng vậy say thì cứ say
Đất say đất cũng lăn quay
Người say người cũng ngủ ngay ngoài đường
(Thản dà)

Công nhân như nước Thái lan
Lãnh việc như núi trong ngàn hãng may…

Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’
https://www.theguardian.com/business...-forced-labour

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The factory is in Mae Sot, a city at the Myanmar border that relies on Burmese migrant labour, and which has developed a reputation over the last decade as a “wild west” for workers’ rights. The lawsuit argues that Tesco should have known the area was notorious for exploitation.

Tesco made £2.2bn profits in 2020, the last year that its Thai business used VKG.

Labour experts say large clothing brands such as F&F deliberately outsource the production of clothes and the auditing of factories to avoid liability and reputational damage while keeping prices cheap and protecting profits.

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Công ty nhớ lấy câu này
Cướp công lao động cướp ngày và đêm
(Ca dao)

Con rắn cháu quỷ:

Nepal to release ‘The Serpent’ serial killer Charles Sobhraj
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...harles-sobhraj

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Sobhraj, who has French citizenship and is of Indian and Vietnamese descent, has been linked to the killings of 20 foreign tourists across Thailand, Nepal and India. He is said to have lured them in before drugging, robbing and murdering them.

His life has been subject to several dramatisations, including the BBC/Netflix series The Serpent, which depicted his targeting of western backpackers in India and Thailand.

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Chằng tinh nổi tiếng rừng xanh
Một tay chôn biết mấy cành phù dung
(Pháp trường tân thanh)

Hết thuốc chữa:

Taiwan may restrict Panadol bulk-buying for China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ying-for-china

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Some drug buyers in Taiwan are looking to ship or bring the painkiller to the Chinese mainland, where Covid-19 cases and deaths have risen after China relaxed its zero-Covid restrictions.

China is scrambling to ensure stable drug supplies after ending its nationwide zero-Covid policy. Authorities have introduced measures to properly allocate medical resources, including requisitioning the production of medical supplies.

To address nationwide shortages, more than a dozen Chinese pharmaceutical firms have been tapped by officials to help “secure supplies” of key drugs – a euphemism for requisitioning.

At least 11 of 42 test kit makers whose products are licensed by China’s medical regulators have had part of their production seized by the government or received orders from the state, according to Agence France-Presseand local media reports.

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Ba Tàu lặn lội Đài loan
Lùng cả thị trường lượm đủ thuốc thang
Ông ơi ông bán cho tôi
Tôi có đồng nào ông hãy lấy đi
Có uống thì uống thuốc Tây
Đừng uống thuốc Tàu đau nằm nhà thương
(Ca dao)

Nhật cũng có thương - vong. :z51:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jABC7wFNuAQ

Đi kinh tế mới: An yên lạc nghiệp.

Japanese government offers families 1m yen a child to leave Tokyo
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...er-to-families

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The payment – which comes on top of up to ¥3m already available in financial support – will be offered to families living in the 23 “core” wards of Tokyo and the neighbouring commuter-belt prefectures of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa.

To receive the benefits, families must move outside the greater Tokyo area, although some could receive the cash if they relocate to mountainous areas that lie within the city’s boundaries, the Kyodo news agency said, quoting officials.

They must live in their new homes for at least five years and one member of the household must be in work or plan to open a new business. Those who move out before five years have passed will have to return the cash.

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Lìa xa thành Tô yêu dấu một sớm khi heo may về
Lòng khách tha hương vương sầu thương
Nhìn em mờ trong mây khói bước đi nhưng chưa nỡ rời
Lệ sầu tràn mi đượm men cay đắng biệt ly
Rồi đây dù lạc ngàn nơi ta hướng về chốn xa vời
Tìm mộng xưa lãng quên tháng ngày tàn phai
Nghẹn ngào thương nhớ em Tô-kỳ-ô
(Giấc mơ đồi nương)

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Đi kinh tế mới: An yên lạc nghiệp.

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