https://www.scmp.com/rss/328805/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3202139/women-leading-chinas-covid-19-protests?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3202139/women-leading-chinas-covid-19-protests?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Dec 2022 10:17:31 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3196179/has-metoo-movement-brought-structural-change-asia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3196179/has-metoo-movement-brought-structural-change-asia?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:32:11 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3188682/monkeypox-isnt-gay-disease?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3188682/monkeypox-isnt-gay-disease?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Aug 2022 08:00:25 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3186246/new-korean-drama-draws-praise-and-criticism-among-autism-community?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3186246/new-korean-drama-draws-praise-and-criticism-among-autism-community?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:10:30 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3185414/womens-health-matters-beyond-fertility?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3185414/womens-health-matters-beyond-fertility?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Jul 2022 08:30:28 +0000 Plans in China to create an unprecedented nationwide sex offender registry for schools and universities are currently under consideration. The proposed registry is similar to the US national sex offender registration system which imposes legal obligations on convicted sex offenders to register with local police and prevents them from working in positions with young people and minors in jobs such as teaching, tutoring and volunteering. The proposal would amend China’s Law on the Protection of... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3176204/china-proposes-first-ever-sex-offender-registry?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3176204/china-proposes-first-ever-sex-offender-registry?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 May 2022 01:12:19 +0000 Shareholders and climate activists challenged HSBC over its policies to reach net-zero in its loan portfolio at a fiery annual meeting in London on Friday. Annual meetings can often be quite lively in Britain, with campaigners planning elaborate protests, including fancy dress costumes and props. But social distancing restrictions to control the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom have restricted attendance in recent years. Friday’s meeting was no exception, with climate activists wearing... https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3176058/climate-activists-disrupt-hsbcs-annual-meeting-over-net?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3176058/climate-activists-disrupt-hsbcs-annual-meeting-over-net?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:44:58 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3173556/hong-kongs-5th-wave-domestic-workers-lives-have-fallen-apart?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3173556/hong-kongs-5th-wave-domestic-workers-lives-have-fallen-apart?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:05:11 +0000 When Josephine*, a 54-year-old domestic worker from the Philippines, began to have a sore throat, she feared it was Covid-19. It was at the time when Hong Kong was going through the most serious wave of the pandemic and hospitals were running out of beds. She was right. After testing positive for the virus, she was given “cold, cough and fever” medicine by medical staff who told her to stay home. But instead of sleeping in her bed, Josephine’s employers made her take a mattress to their... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3172875/sick-domestic-workers-left-homeless-and-jobless-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3172875/sick-domestic-workers-left-homeless-and-jobless-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 Apr 2022 03:30:16 +0000 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes the cooperation agenda for pandemic recovery much harder. It has also threatened to derail the G20 summit altogether. Nevertheless, the global community has shown its ability to rapidly coordinate economic sanctions and present a largely united front against a war of aggression. Despite the tragedy from the conflict and its effect on the global economy, this also underlines the security dimension of economic interdependence. The coordinated economic and... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3171508/indonesias-leadership-g20-needs-secure-open-trade-and-strengthen?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3171508/indonesias-leadership-g20-needs-secure-open-trade-and-strengthen?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Mar 2022 06:27:15 +0000 A renowned professor and doctor in Shanghai has been fired after one of his female students revealed that the married man had an affair with her and that she had an abortion after falling pregnant with his child. An investigation by the university into the student’s claim revealed Li Qi, a professor from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a leading doctor at the affiliated Shuguang Hospital, “seriously violated professional ethics as a tutor and caused bad social influence”,... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3168406/metoo-china-married-academic-fired-shanghai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3168406/metoo-china-married-academic-fired-shanghai?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:00:16 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3167826/romance-scams-eileen-gus-nationality-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3167826/romance-scams-eileen-gus-nationality-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Feb 2022 08:36:29 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3165826/sexual-assault-metaverse-viral-dance-and-asian-aunties?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3165826/sexual-assault-metaverse-viral-dance-and-asian-aunties?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Feb 2022 08:00:47 +0000 As the coronavirus pandemic continued to wreak havoc around the world in the last 12 months, a series of high-profile crimes caught national attention ‘Go to hell’: the last words she heard before she was pushed off a cliff Those were the last words Wang Nan heard before her husband kissed her on the cheek and pushed her off a cliff in Thailand where he had supposedly taken her to see the sunrise on June 9, 2019. She survived the fall but was forced to terminate her unborn baby because of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3165086/china-crime-murder-botched-plastic-surgery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3165086/china-crime-murder-botched-plastic-surgery?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Feb 2022 01:00:15 +0000 At a classroom screening of North Country at a US university in October, students were startled to find their Chinese-born teacher sobbing uncontrollably. Little did they know that the film – based on the woman who won the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States – had struck a personal chord with He Qian, 33, a University of Oklahoma faculty member. Like the lead character Josey Aimes, He Qian had accused a man of sexual harassment and gone to court for it. But, unlike... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3165248/bed-nails-chinas-metoo-accusers-crushed-burden-proof-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3165248/bed-nails-chinas-metoo-accusers-crushed-burden-proof-and?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:30:24 +0000 Chinese football great Fan Zhiyi said the sport must embrace change to “get back on track” after China’s stunning 3-1 loss to Vietnam in a Fifa World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. In a lengthy statement on Weibo, viewed more than 1 .3 million times just hours after it was posted, Fan said Chinese football must rebuild from the ground up if it was to have any chance at success. “Football has no national boundaries, but football needs a sense of ritual, cohesion, and inheritance,” he wrote. “The more... https://www.scmp.com/sport/football/article/3165544/china-football-great-fan-zhiyi-says-changes-needed-get-back-track?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/football/article/3165544/china-football-great-fan-zhiyi-says-changes-needed-get-back-track?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Feb 2022 03:03:58 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3164233/lockdown-love-metoo-south-korea-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3164233/lockdown-love-metoo-south-korea-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 21 Jan 2022 08:06:11 +0000 As the world steps into 2022, Kate Middleton is preparing to leave a decade behind her. The Duchess of Cambridge celebrates her 40th birthday on January 9. It’s been more than 10 years since Middleton married Britain’s Prince William and almost 20 since she came into the public eye as a potential future princess. Perhaps more than anything else, the world has got to know Middleton through her fashion sense. She’s well-known for her style – just about any brand she wears experiences a boost from... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3162054/kate-middleton-40-how-fashion-choices-duchess-cambridge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3162054/kate-middleton-40-how-fashion-choices-duchess-cambridge?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Jan 2022 08:15:21 +0000 The cartoon says it all: a man in a suit writing a law book on women’s rights. The illustration was featured in a recent opinion piece in the Global Times, a tabloid linked to the Chinese government, on the draft amendment of the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women. A few days earlier, the proposed changes had been submitted to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, the country’s top lawmaking body, for deliberation. Aimed at better safeguarding women’s... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3161231/china-cannot-achieve-gender-equality-while-excluding-women?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3161231/china-cannot-achieve-gender-equality-while-excluding-women?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Dec 2021 01:15:17 +0000 A group of US officials have applied for visas as part of a delegation to China to provide security support during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after Washington announced it would conduct a diplomatic boycott of the Games, according to sources. The US government recently submitted to China an application for three-month visas with a list of 18 names to attend the Games to provide “security support operations”, according to two sources and a document reviewed by the South China Morning... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3160999/us-applies-china-18-officials-attend-winter-olympics-after-joe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3160999/us-applies-china-18-officials-attend-winter-olympics-after-joe?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:30:22 +0000 China may outlaw the use of superstitious and “mind-control” practices on women and ban employers from asking female applicants about their marital or pregnancy status under proposed changes to its women’s rights law. A draft revision of the Law on the Protection of Women’s Rights and Interests, which has been in place for three decades, was reviewed on Monday at an ongoing meeting of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, the top legislative body. “New problems have arisen as our... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3160602/china-looks-update-and-strengthen-womens-rights-law?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3160602/china-looks-update-and-strengthen-womens-rights-law?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:00:32 +0000 More than 110 alumni of the British Chevening Scholarship have urged Beijing to unconditionally release detained Chinese activists Sophia Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing. Huang, an independent journalist known for her #MeToo activism, was awarded the prestigious scholarship and planned to start a master’s degree at the University of Sussex before she was detained three months ago in the southern city of Guangzhou. Her friend Wang, a labour activist, was also taken into custody. In a joint... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3159062/group-chevening-scholars-call-china-release-detained-metoo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3159062/group-chevening-scholars-call-china-release-detained-metoo?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:27:03 +0000 It was a click that was heard around the world. Early last month, the send button was pressed on a post on Chinese tennis pro Peng Shuai’s Twitter-like Weibo account. The post alleged sexual assault against a former senior Chinese politician, a claim that was equally sudden and explosive, coming out of nowhere and rippling around the country before censors stamped out mainstream discussion online. Nevertheless the post continued to be relayed as screenshots, graphics, links and even on... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3158544/how-peng-shuai-fanning-embers-chinas-metoo-movement?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3158544/how-peng-shuai-fanning-embers-chinas-metoo-movement?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Dec 2021 15:30:23 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3158703/once-chinas-golden-flower-tennis-star-peng-shuai-now-centre?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3158703/once-chinas-golden-flower-tennis-star-peng-shuai-now-centre?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000 A bipartisan pair of US lawmakers introduced a resolution on Friday accusing the International Olympic Committee of helping Chinese authorities whitewash tennis superstar Peng Shuai’s sexual assault claims against a former senior Communist Party official in Beijing. “Three-time Olympian Peng Shuai went missing after she said in a since-deleted post on Chinese social media site Weibo that she had been sexually assaulted and forced into a sexual relationship with Zhang Gaoli, who was the Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3158432/us-congressional-resolution-says-ioc-aided-beijings-disappearance-peng?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3158432/us-congressional-resolution-says-ioc-aided-beijings-disappearance-peng?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:48:59 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3158319/bollywood-and-breastfeeding-canada-goose-and-woman-neon-artist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3158319/bollywood-and-breastfeeding-canada-goose-and-woman-neon-artist?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Dec 2021 08:00:13 +0000 Beijing has said politics should be kept out of sport following the Women’s Tennis Association’s decision to withdraw from China over the case of former champion Peng Shuai, who accused a former senior official of sexual assault. Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the ministry, responded to the withdrawal, which includes tournaments in Hong Kong, by saying: “We’ve already expressed our view. We’ve always been against behaviours politicising sports.” Over the past three weeks, the ministry has... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3158152/beijing-warns-against-politicising-sport-after-wta-pulls-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3158152/beijing-warns-against-politicising-sport-after-wta-pulls-out?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:13:56 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3156661/celibacy-old-boys-and-chop-suey-soup-dumplings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3156661/celibacy-old-boys-and-chop-suey-soup-dumplings?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Nov 2021 08:00:46 +0000 It began most obviously with Mr Spock. Arguably, the inscrutable Vulcan’s best party trick was the mind meld, which allowed him to read the thoughts of others (and avert yet another catastrophe for the USS Enterprise). Cut from Star Trek to Dr Brain, the first original Korean-language series from Apple TV+, and the first foray into television for director Kim Jee-woon (Illang: The Wolf Brigade; I Saw the Devil). The practice of brain synchronisation is the unnerving plot device around which the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3156338/apple-tv-korean-horror-series-dr-brains-director-and-cast?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3156338/apple-tv-korean-horror-series-dr-brains-director-and-cast?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:45:10 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3149949/fearsome-nepali-women-fighters-lalisas-favourite-meatballs-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3149949/fearsome-nepali-women-fighters-lalisas-favourite-meatballs-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Sep 2021 08:00:22 +0000 Zhou Xiaoxuan, the face of China’s #MeToo movement, has just lost her landmark case. A Beijing court ruled that she had “tendered insufficient evidence” against a star presenter. Zhou, better known by her online nickname Xuanzi, first alleged in 2018 that Zhu Jun had forcibly kissed and groped her in a dressing room four years earlier, when she worked as an intern at China Central Television. Her action helped spur the #MeToo movement in China and led many other women to speak out about their... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3149538/chinas-legal-system-must-change-protect-sexual-harassment-survivors?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3149538/chinas-legal-system-must-change-protect-sexual-harassment-survivors?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Sep 2021 01:15:21 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3148287/chinese-celebrity-culture-financial-infidelity-and-plight-trolley-pushers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3148287/chinese-celebrity-culture-financial-infidelity-and-plight-trolley-pushers?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:00:21 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3140466/girls-outshine-boys-china-misyar-unions-and-high-heels-history?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3140466/girls-outshine-boys-china-misyar-unions-and-high-heels-history?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Jul 2021 08:00:13 +0000 One of China’s most famous scions of an ultra-wealthy family is taking heat after a series of leaked WeChat conversations showed he bullied, threatened and begged a woman who rejected his advances. Wang Sicong, the 33-year-old son of Wang Jianlin, the billionaire founder of Dalian Wanda Group, has been accused of using his status to pressure an online celebrity into dating him.  Wang has long been a celebrity in China, and at one point was called “China’s most eligible bachelor”. Dalian Wanda is... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3137493/scion-dalian-wanda-accused-sending-abusive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3137493/scion-dalian-wanda-accused-sending-abusive?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3136057/celebrity-divorces-karen-v-kamala-and-hong-kongs-buffalo-mama?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3136057/celebrity-divorces-karen-v-kamala-and-hong-kongs-buffalo-mama?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Jun 2021 08:00:17 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3134337/chinas-bare-branch-men-miss-myanmars-message-and-why-women-kill?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3134337/chinas-bare-branch-men-miss-myanmars-message-and-why-women-kill?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 21 May 2021 08:00:09 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3133488/domestic-workers-and-discrimination-chinas-6b4t-movement-and-k-pop-fans?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3133488/domestic-workers-and-discrimination-chinas-6b4t-movement-and-k-pop-fans?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 May 2021 08:29:50 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3129815/vaccine-health-women-growing-chinese-takeaway-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3129815/vaccine-health-women-growing-chinese-takeaway-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:00:17 +0000 A government official in northeastern China has been fired after a video emerged of a woman attacking him with a mop while accusing him of sexual harassment.  The 14-minute video that went viral shows the official’s subordinate, surnamed Zhou, throwing items on his desk before retrieving a mop to attack the man, surnamed Wang, the deputy director of the poverty alleviation department of Beilin district, in Heilongjiang Province. While Zhou, who authorities later said has a mental illness, is... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3129320/chinese-government-official-fired-over-sexual-harassment-claims?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3129320/chinese-government-official-fired-over-sexual-harassment-claims?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:15:14 +0000 This story about gender discrimination against job seekers is part of a series of stories on women’s issues in China and Asia to coincide with International Women’s Day. How many boyfriends have you had? That is the latest question to join as the long list of sexist and stereotypical questions levelled at women looking for work in China.  Last week a woman revealed on Chinese social media that when applying for a human resources job with a car service company she was asked how many romantic... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3124236/gender-discrimination-against-women-job-seekers-china-rife?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3124236/gender-discrimination-against-women-job-seekers-china-rife?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Mar 2021 23:30:09 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3118117/victim-shaming-kamala-harris-switcheroo-and-kimchi-wars?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3118117/victim-shaming-kamala-harris-switcheroo-and-kimchi-wars?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Jan 2021 02:30:39 +0000 A Chinese company’s new video advertisement for women’s makeup remover wipes has been savagely panned by online critics, forcing the ad to be pulled and the company apologizing twice. Purcotton, owned by Winner Medical Co., released the video last week on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, showing a young girl scaring off a would-be attacker with her naked makeup-free face after using the cleansing wipes. The 26-second video ad was pulled after online users denounced it as “demonizing”... https://www.scmp.com/society/enough-victim-blaming-ad-pulled-after-women-lead-internet-outrage/article/3117543?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/enough-victim-blaming-ad-pulled-after-women-lead-internet-outrage/article/3117543?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:02:03 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3112605/lunar-newsletter-chinas-metoo-pioneer-indian-witch-hunts-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3112605/lunar-newsletter-chinas-metoo-pioneer-indian-witch-hunts-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Dec 2020 09:42:28 +0000 In a darkened room, pieces of paper with pencils stabbed through the middle tell the stories of sexual abuse and harassment. On the floor, speakers play a loop of monologues from victims. In another corner, a giant mosaic spells the English word “Resist.” These are installations at an exhibit named “Her Story – Eliminating Gender Violence 2020,” an exhibition launched by feminism activists in Beijing that ran between November 25 and December 1.  The display followed their #MeToo exhibit last... https://www.scmp.com/society/movement-beijing-exhibition-aims-keep-metoo-alive-china/article/3112125?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/movement-beijing-exhibition-aims-keep-metoo-alive-china/article/3112125?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 01 Dec 2020 11:12:35 +0000 China’s education department issued a new regulation on November 11 banning postgraduate tutors from having “improper” relations with students to prevent instances of exploitation.  Postgraduate tutors are often treated as guiding mentors, or even employers, by students who face immense pressure to achieve high marks in China’s notoriously high-pressure academic culture. The relationship dynamic has resulted in sexual misconduct or bullying from teachers, and in some cases resulted in the... https://www.scmp.com/education/chinas-guide-ending-abuse-students-college/article/3110163?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/education/chinas-guide-ending-abuse-students-college/article/3110163?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:06:26 +0000 In a case that has thrown a spotlight on China’s age of consent laws, a businessman has denied accusations that he assaulted a 14-year-old girl and described the relationship as romantic. The alleged victim, who is now 18, told Chinese media outlets South Reviews and Thepaper.cn in April that the man, who adopted her in 2015, sexually assaulted her over the course of more than three years. She said the assault first took place when she was 14 years old. Lawyers say the businessman, Bao Yuming,... https://www.scmp.com/society/calls-raise-age-consent-following-alleged-sexual-assault-teen-girl/article/3085066?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/calls-raise-age-consent-following-alleged-sexual-assault-teen-girl/article/3085066?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 May 2020 12:14:55 +0000 Despite arrests and censorship campaigns, China’s #MeToo movement has succeeded in shedding light on problems of sexual harassment in the country, particularly in universities.  In once such recent case, a former vice-president of a top Chinese university was fired over allegations of sexual harassment after a six-month-long investigation.  Cai Xiang also faces charges of corruption and has been stripped of his Communist Party membership.  China’s education disciplinary commission and the... https://www.scmp.com/society/vice-president-metoo-firing-highlights-issues-sexual-harassment-universities/article/3045305?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/vice-president-metoo-firing-highlights-issues-sexual-harassment-universities/article/3045305?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:12:24 +0000 A Chinese professor has been sacked by a prominent university in Shanghai after a sexual assault allegation against him prompted public outrage.  Last weekend, a part-time graduate student at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics accused the associate professor, 55-year-old Qian Fengsheng, of sexual assault.  In a detailed online post, the student said the professor had been sending her suggestive WeChat messages since September. On November 16, he offered to answer the student’s... https://www.scmp.com/society/shanghai-university-sacks-professor-over-alleged-sexual-assault-student/article/3041406?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/shanghai-university-sacks-professor-over-alleged-sexual-assault-student/article/3041406?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Dec 2019 11:24:30 +0000 A journalist who was a leader of the #MeToo movement in China has been arrested in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou for allegedly disturbing public order, sources familiar with the case said on Thursday. Two sources said Huang Xueqin, who goes by Sophia, was formally arrested a week ago on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” – an offense often used by police to detain dissidents and social activists. It can carry a prison sentence of up to five years. Huang also recently... https://www.scmp.com/society/leading-metoo-activist-arrested-china/article/3034569?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/leading-metoo-activist-arrested-china/article/3034569?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:38:38 +0000 Feminists Wang Wei and Xiong Jing both found their calling in college, but their experiences of campaigning for women’s rights in China have been vastly different. Wang, 21, who provides sex education through a start-up she founded, has received official policy and funding support for her activities. But 31-year-old Xiong, a prominent #MeToo activist seeking to change attitudes toward women, has been under tight government scrutiny, and her organization was shut down. This split-screen contrast... https://www.scmp.com/society/divergent-tales-two-womens-rights-crusaders-china/article/3032522?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/divergent-tales-two-womens-rights-crusaders-china/article/3032522?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:06:43 +0000