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The pandemic prevented Shanghai schoolteacher Chen Hainan from returning to her hometown to reunite with family for the past two Lunar New Year holidays, but not even lingering virus concerns and repeated Covid tests will keep her away this time. Chen, 30, needs to get her nose or throat swabbed a grand total of five times to ensure passage home to eastern Zhejiang province and back.

Paramilitary fighters from the Russia-linked Wagner group star in a new film singing their praises for interventions against rebels in the Central African Republic and elsewhere on the continent. A screening of the film drew several hundred people to a sports stadium in the capital Bangui on Saturday.

A leggy blonde sashays with the grace of a Hollywood star then drops into the splits, mesmerising an enthusiastic Johannesburg audience not used to watching major shows by international drag queens. Brooke Lynn Hytes, AKA Brock Hayhoe, two-time finalist on “RuPaul’s Drag Race”, headlined the sold-out event on Saturday night.

For generations, adults have traditionally punished children for their wrongdoings by inflicting physical pain, in practices collectively known as corporal punishment.

In a factory outside Ayr in southwest Scotland, James Wyllie carefully lifts and caresses a curling stone, as well-used drilling and polishing machines grind in the background. The 18kg stone is made from unique granite rock harvested on Ailsa Craig, about 16km over a wild stretch of sea to the west of the mainland.

Prime Minister Hun Sen has reiterated his call for the public to remain vigilant against Covid-19, saying that although the Delta and Alpha variants had disappeared, the highly transmissible Omiron strain remains in active circulation.

Is Asean in for a roller coaster ride under Cambodian chair this year?

The French art world was shaken Wednesday by news that the Art Basel fair has swooped in to replace France’s own, long-running FIAC at the Grand Palais in Paris.

A Syrian neighbourhood targeted by regime bombing lies in ruins, with bodies and broken toys poking out of the rubble; tall, grey buildings are reduced to crumbling, empty shells, their walls blown away or pockmarked by the blast.

Kim Jones may be borrowing from Dior’s most iconic female looks for his latest menswear collection but that doesn’t mean he believes gender boundaries are ready to disappear yet.