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Thousands of women and girls have been kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery by Boko Haram and its Islamic State offshoot. That war is being carried out, in part, upon the bodies of women and children.
** With Beijing prioritising "Common Prosperity" over freewheeling economic growth, "the investment lens through which global investors evaluate opportunities in China has changed and the strategies deployed towards investing in the Middle Kingdom need to adapt accordingly," wrote Norman Vilamin, CIO of Wealth Management at Union Bancaire Privee (UBP).
While the chips sector is already bracing for waning demand as red-hot inflation squeezes spending, Taiwan faces a tougher situation - sandwiched between its largest export market China and its main international backer and arms supplier, the United States - especially as Beijing steps up military pressure to force Taipei to accept Chinese sovereignty claims.
Officials from the election management committee put posters of presidential candidates of Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party and Yoon Suk Yeol, right, of the main opposition People Power Party in Seoul, South Korea, Feb.
While Liu did not make direct mention of it, the sweeping set of export controls announced by the United States this month, aimed at slowing China's progress in advanced chip manufacturing, is expected to also impact Taiwanese chipmakers.
Now "the things about teaching I never thought about start finding real estate in my brain. The pandemic has taken a toll on her. "The relationships and interactions with my students are what drives my passion for my job and brings me joy," A.C., another teacher from Austin, who's been teaching for about 25 years, said in an email. Every other week or so, when I am feeling particularly down and out, I entertain the idea of leaving."
Taiwan is a major producer of chips used in everything from cars, smartphones to data centres and fighter jets, while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) is the world's largest contract chipmaker and Asia's most valuable listed firm.
Dozens of women in northeast Nigeria told Reuters of similarly wrenching experiences during the ongoing strife, which has claimed more than 300,000 lives, including those of civilians killed by violence, starvation and disease.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - As South Korea enters a bitter presidential race, Hong Hee-jin is one of many young women who feel that the country´s politics has become dominated by discrimination against women, even outright misogyny.
When I asked the teachers about their reasons to stay, all of them replied with their own version of, "I don't think I will find a more meaningful job than this one" (as Austin teacher J.J. It's tricky because, despite all its problems, teaching can also be rewarding.
For learning writing Nelson, it was the anxiety of coming back to in-person teaching during the pandemic while having an autoimmune disease, being harassed by another teacher and not getting help from the school administration. For every education professional, the way working as a teacher goes from dream job to recurring nightmare looks different. Then things began to change.
TSMC's dominance in making some of the world's most advanced chips for high-end customers such as Apple Inc and Qualcomm Inc has shielded it in recent quarters from the downturn flagged by chipmakers including Micron Technology Inc.
The new rules require U.S.
companies to cease supplying Chinese chipmakers with equipment to make relatively advanced chips, though Washington has granted some non-Chinese companies operating in China one-year licenses.
WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Tuesday it will conduct an interagency review of its trade tools and policies to fight forced labor to determine whether any gaps need to be filled.
SHANGHAI, Sept 16 (Reuters) - China's stock benchmarks dropped over 1% on Thursday, with property and banking stocks leading the slide on fears that debt-ridden developer China Evergrande Group's financial troubles would trigger a broad contagion.
HSINCHU, Taiwan, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Rising Taiwan-China and U.S.-China tensions have brought "more serious" challenges for the semiconductor industry, the chairman of Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC said on Wednesday.
Critics say this makes up only a small number of rape claims, and that the threat of tougher punishment could intimidate victims from coming forward amid a recent male backlash against the #MeToo movement.
In high school, Aisha had a boyfriend in a neighboring village whom she hoped to marry.
She said she dreamt of becoming a soldier, an accountant or even a doctor - a secure livelihood in the economically depressed region. She hoped one day to have children. Unlike some fathers in the region, she said, hers had made a priority of securing an education for his girls, and he never beat them.
The current teacher shortage dynamic is a magnified version of the dynamic from before, especially at "high poverty schools [and among] high school teachers [in] specialized roles," said ERS' Rosenberg. Staffing for those roles is particularly difficult in "communities where there's already high turnover, which feeds itself because high turnover means you hire early career teachers and they also have high turnover," he said.