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Ex-domestic helper Xyza Bacani on her Hong Kong photo show about human trafficking

Magnum Fellowship winner’s new exhibition depicts the human cost of modern-day slavery but with a focus on the hope amid the horror. ‘Victims do not have to look sad,’ she says

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Hong Kong-based Elaine Yan pushes boundaries in textile design

Using Swarovski crystals to create 'biosculptures', British-Chinese designer explores how the behaviour of natural elements can be translated into man-made materials to enhance urban spaces

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Han Kang is first South Korean to win Man Booker International Prize, sharing literature award with translator

Han Kang's allegorical tale wins literary prize, which for the first time will be split evenly with the translator.

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At Cannes, women turn out in force

Last year’s Cannes Film Festival was abuzz with the “heel gate” microscandal after a security guard reportedly wouldn’t let women wearing flats onto the red carpet. This year, Julia Roberts strode up the red-carpeted steps for the premiere of Jodie Foster’s “Money Monster” and revealed that beneath her gown she was barefoot.

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Hillary Clinton says her husband not to serve in her cabinet

​Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said on Monday her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, would not serve in her cabinet if she wins the election.

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Brazil's interim president plans to remain in office till 2019

Brazil's interim President Michel Temer said Friday he may stay in the current position until 2019.Temer took over the presidency Thursday from Brazil's first female President Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended from office for 180 days.

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Key US lawmakers not willing to back military aid to Pakistan

Key members of US Congress are not prepared to support military aid to Pakistan, said Elizabeth Trudeau, Director Office of Press Relations State Department, underscoring the strains in relations between the two countries.

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Oprah Winfrey dreams of a Broadway debut

For 34 years, Oprah Winfrey has been revisiting “The Color Purple,” as a reader, as a performer and as a producer. And yet, there she was on Tuesday night, in row F at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, mouthing the words to the songs, waving her hands in the air, leading a mid-act standing ovation and weeping once again.

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Amy Schumer's No-pants look is literally ON FIRE

The showpiece in the comedienne’s Vanity Fair cover shoot with Annie Leibovitz gives new meaning to “it’s lit.”

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Former Chernobyl residents take a bittersweet visit home

​For residents of Chernobyl, a three-day evacuation turned into a thirty-year exile.

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Hong Kong artist Cath Love on body image, graffiti as art and her TEDx Salon talk

The Swiss-Thai creator of curvaceous cartoon character Jeliboo talks about the subversive nature of her work and rebelling against the Asian perception of beauty

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Millennials shape China's online celebrity economy

​Yu Xiao, a junior student at Zhengzhou University in central China's Henan Province, usually winds down after classes by browsing the makeup tutorials of her favorite beauty bloggers on the Sina Weibo social network.

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China's bird flu warrior gets global award

For the second year in a row, a scientist from the Chinese mainland has won the L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Award this year.

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Mysterious Italian novelist could become first-ever anonymous Booker winner

For the first time, the Man Booker International prize could go to an anonymous writer this year, if a story of lifelong friendship in southern Italy beats the other five contestants in a short list announced this week.

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Hong Kong photographer captures 4 years in transgender friend’s transition

Mark Woodward met Lia Romero when he went to New York to study, and Romero's transformation from man to woman is the subject of Woodward’s first solo show in Brooklyn

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19-year-old hit by train while taking selfie, dies on the spot

A woman taking a selfie near a railway track was hit by a train and died on the spot in Foshan on Saturday, reported citygf.com.