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a record number of women all because taiwan leads the way for gender equity and government but. i'm british managing welcome to day. it's good to have you with us breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in pakistan that's according to the wild health organization for the thousands of women coping with that diagnosis each other in the country emotional support is a crucial part of recovery for many it can be something as simple as regaining lost to chemotherapy correspondent reports. when my hair fell out i cried a lot it was very long and beautiful. i mean i asked my mom if it would come

back. my hair has now regrowing but it's not the same as it was before. it's a devastating loss but we believe everything is a test from god and that. through an i.v. line in hospital 52 year old man of the shard is facing the side effects of chemotherapy losing her beautiful hair was an avoidable a breast cancer diagnosis and short dad over the last 25 years barker stan has witnessed a significant rise in the number of people diagnosed with cancer according to the world health organization one 174000 cases 1st recorded in 201820 percent of those were vim and vigor breast cancer. but years of foreign investment in the health care system is highlighting that the increase

in ability to track the growing health crisis and after here and after thought it is often left to charities to help patients feel like them says again. here to help is one such organization members of the public donate dear here which is then turned into weeks and given to those in hospital wards charge initial resistance from some people to the initiative for the charity to get in slum excuse to issue a fatwa in favor of people donating here. will there be that miami people still believe in the idea that this is the scene especially of the hair they donate is misused but i assure them we have nothing to do with black magic i encourage donors by telling them that their hair will grow back and that for women who are going through this trauma these wigs can be a huge boost to their self-esteem did not get it right their. human here can

be colored sty and looks more natural which is why this preferred or worse in their day quakes but they are more expensive to me so the charity of dollars fee here goes as an incentive to come forward. when they're difficult situations cancer patients go through a difficult time fighting this disease and then they suffer from hair loss and hair is important to the overall appearance of a woman in pakistan and a citizen's duty to encourage those in me. and for doing suman they know this is a small gesture can make a big difference to them and they come. in a red admission china's leadership present knowledge to shortcomings and its response

to the coronavirus outbreak president xi jinping is now calling the crisis a court people's war of prevention but it's of rallying cry that rings hollow for many in hong kong which as reported its 1st death from the coronavirus trust in beijing is already law after months of pro-democracy protests and many residents scarred by memories of the sars epidemic nearly 2 decades ago where hong kong recorded nearly the same number of deaths as on the chinese mainland and now health care workers have gone on strike to demand a complete border closure with the mainland the strikers say that's the only way to stop the koran of virus from spreading. close the border save hong kong that's the demand of thousands of the city's health workers on strike for a 2nd day to those battling on the virus's front line the current precautions simply aren't enough. bad thing i hope the government listens to our demands

quickly closes all the borders and bring this epidemic under control. for many this latest epidemic serves as a painful reminder of the deadly sars outbreak nearly 2 decades ago and few have forgotten china's initial attempts to cover up that outbreak severity which killed nearly $300.00 in the city state now as then people in hong kong are critical of a government response they say is lethargic on monday or thora he's took further measures closing all the 2 land border crossings the international airport also remains open. hong kong's chief executive has hit back at critics. i certainly would not agree with the allegation that. sort of not addressing this public health concern adequately and suddenly i don't agree with

the allegation that we are putting politics of public health. a statement likely to fall on deaf ears with protest is valid to continue their strike until the end of the week. neither of us wanted charlotte bill is in hong kong or drug on the line now charlotte water has been the impact on medical services destroyed. well this is now the 2nd day of this 5 day strike in the hospital here in hong kong or so there is. a serious impact on medical services here mentioned in particular what. services they too intensive care services as well have been discussed. as services impacted by this strike so with 3 days still to come with many front line stuff including doctors and nurses expected to continue to strike this

could be a very serious for. those who are taking part in the strike stress that this disruption will be nothing to the disruption that would be cool if this parade really takes hold here and they say that medical are already stretched and that they simply one if the number of cases of this current virus which is. striking at a time when the. potential mightn't have reached its peak as yet. how much support is there for these striking. well of course the strike has been condemned by the government here chief executive kerry edging medical staff to return to what as soon as possible many in the medical community as well a warning that doctors and nurses must perform that job particularly now while this

current virus is starting to spread in hong kong having said that many people that we've spoken to at the very least support the cool to strike the reason behind it they also want all of the borders closed here in hong kong there are so many people remember that sars outbreak in 2003 when with 300 people lost their lives here in hong kong they know that is very densely populated the spread can start to take hold very rapidly and that is a big concern here a number of people that we've spoken to as well worried about the fact that there is a very urgent small 6 shortage here that blaming the authorities to not getting a supply of is more functional here in hong kong the facts now that they've been to more cases confirmed today right a full cases of the 17 and believed to have been transmitted while in hong kong not coming from mainland china but really is starting to to increase the concern for people here. in hong kong thank you very much for that.

a little over 3 weeks back taiwan elected psion one to a historic 2nd term as leader of the island but along with side taiwanese also elected a record 42 percent women to parliament that makes taiwan the only region in asia with the highest number of female parliamentarians this is thanks to a nearly century long struggle to increase political representation for women that's also seen the introduction of kowtows for most election races but still it isn't easy going he didn't correspondent phoebe kong met newly elected m.p. fun union of the ruling democratic progressive party she began by asking her what difficulties she faces as a woman in politics. do you personally encounter any of these sly sex or some behavior difficulties that during your campaign of course for example when i am when some people do still with me they not only. sometimes they will

just say. so it's not only in the real we're actually in the the so-called virtue or in the internet it's even more of. course i will say it sounds like you still need some time to change the culture so. that's the question that's question will like to ask so is there anything like you think not only in the real war actually in the the so-called virtue or in the internet it's even more of. course i will say this sounds like you still need some time to change the culture so. that's the question that's a question will like to ask so is there anything like you think like can improve in taiwan in terms of gender equality to what are you going to plan to do and what should be done in the future tiffany i think we have more things that we can do to

improve the situation for example i would propose de we should we said to our public funding for women to. day because compared to their male partners of their male counterparts women have less resources to be a politician especially to. kenny date and i would say that we have to set up some education a gender education mechanism in our city council and also in our national congress because they are the you know they are the people who look up to dan if the male politicians often have some comments i see is really a send up the wrong sim the wrong message to do to. when these people. taiwanese are based on you an interview of their by did of a correspondent kong that's a fun out at all with all the upside. there are the show online and other stories

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told erases the chief executive steps aside well authorities investigate unusual payments at the malaysian carrier. and in thailand small breweries set out to disrupt the be a market sector that's unfairly skewed to big multinationals. and invisible and lets do business counting the costs of the coronavirus analysts say the outbreak could rapidly weaken global growth the situation is already fragile goldman sachs says debates a modest hit to growth this year while the macroeconomic effects a still unclear the near term implications for chinese output of becoming very clear economists say the virus has cost china's restaurant tourism a movie industry's $144000000000.00 in losses of the lunar new year holiday casino stocks have slumped the world's gambling capital macau is closing over and use for at least 2 weeks that will cut off the lifeblood of the city's economy. the

prospects for tourism in macau are as uncertain as a throw of that dice that one of the territory for the casino.