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“Sellers here used to only market to Indonesians,” Ms. Wong said, “so they didn’t need any signs. You just knew what the dishes were. Now, with social media, they get a broader audience.”

For one Saturday every month, St. James Episcopal Church becomes New York’s premier destination for Indonesian food. Hundreds of eager eaters come from as far away as Virginia to support their favorite vendors and discover new dishes.

She says she tries to convince reluctant women to accept the registration of the second marriage, in order to protect their rights.

"I just say, 'Your heart will be broken the same, just in this court you will get your rights — your maintenance, your children's rights, your inheritance,'" Judge Nenney says.

If the husband doesn't get permission from her court, she says, he can easily circumvent the decision by marrying in a neighbouring country.

On his return, he can register the marriage, and is simply made to pay a paltry fine.

"Better her husband go through this court case than he go to Thailand, Singapore or Indonesia to marry without the permission of the court," Judge Nenney says.

One resident, a 32-year-old man who said he was from the coastal city of Sihanoukville, said he had tried to escape dozens of times since he came to the facility several months ago, an account confirmed by Kosal and Reach Seila, the center's deputy director.

"I want to leave because they try to strangle me," the man said, placing his hands on his neck. "They hit me and they grab my legs," he added, without naming his purported tormentors. The Post could not confirm this account, but Seila said it was possible "other patients teased him."

The 32-year-old said there was nothing to do but sit on the bed. He wants to work and do something with his life, he said. Maybe study at a pagoda or go to Thailand.

The Nationals’ existence is seen as a big win for the community, as teams now have regular games to train for as well as regular pay cheques.Vitug said participating e-athletes ranged from 15 to 25 years old, all of whom received monthly salaries of between 20,000 and 50,000 pesos (US$393-US$984) based on their skill level.

“We want to encourage two things – that exceptional players can build a career in this space, and to grow the community of e-sports,” Vitug said.

E-sports in the Philippines has come a long way from its beginnings in cybercafes – venues with computers that provided internet access for a fee – in the early 2000s. The likes of Ronald Robins started playing in local cybercafes when he was in college, but soon went as far afield as Cebu, an hour’s flight from Manila, in search of competition.

The innovative use of VR isn’t the only highlight of the “Girl, Talk” campaign. The team also created bite-sized educational videos and podcasts that touch on issues such as consent and how to respond to sexual harassment.

The campaign got a stamp of approval from Monica Baey, a National University of Singapore (NUS) student who went viral in 2019 when she publicly called out a fellow student who had filmed her in the shower.

Her very public confrontation with her harasser and the authorities had a domino effect across Singapore. Since then, an increasing number of sexual offenders in universities have been exposed. Her courage to stand up to her harasser has encouraged other survivors of sexual harassment to stand up to theirs and seek help.

Improved rail communications are essential if Katha is to benefit fully from Myanmar's steadily improving economy, reducing its links with the colonial past and opening a more prosperous future. But the real prize would be a link to neighboring China's Yunnan Province, which would bring international trade and commerce linked to Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative.

Right now, that looks speculative. Beijing and Naypyitaw have agreed to a $9 billion rail link from Muse on Myanmar's border with Yunnan to Mandalay, with an extension to Kyaukphyu on the southwest coast of western Rakhine State and possibly to Yangon, Myanmar's business capital. This scheme has powerful backing from Beijing as part of the ever-widening BRI. But it would not pass through Katha.

If you want to overwhelm a communications network, here’s a good trick: compose an e-mail to thousands of Type A parents announcing that the deadly virus splashed all over the headlines has perhaps infiltrated their children’s school. Press Send just as school buses are heading off into morning traffic.

“Good morning.” That was the first text from one of the second-grade moms: an opening line so barren of exclamation marks and emojis that, on a normal morning, it would imply a grave misdeed on the part of my child. “Saw the email?” she continued. We texted back and forth, and meanwhile I was texting with other parents and with two friends who are doctors in the United States.

Thich Quang Do had for decades repeatedly challenged, and angered, the Communist government on issues of religious and political freedom and had effectively been under house arrest since 2003. He had spent the last 30 years or so in and out of prison, under house arrest or forced into internal exile for refusing to submit the Unified Church to government control.

He issued a stream of public statements over the years, putting him in the forefront of religious activism in Vietnam, which permits only a single government-sanctioned Buddhist organization. The Unified Church, founded as an umbrella organization for various Buddhist sects in 1964, was banned.

His themes were as much secular as religious, echoing some of the main concerns of political dissent in Vietnam.

One such statement, delivered in a video message to the United Nations in 2005, amounted to a political manifesto.

“Without democracy and pluralism we cannot combat poverty and injustice nor bring true development to our people,” the statement said. “Without democracy and pluralism we cannot guarantee human rights, for human rights cannot be protected without the safeguards of democratic institutions and the rule of law.”

Speaking for Timor-Leste’s government, minister of state Agio Pereira said Dunn would be remembered with great affection, admiration and respect. “In this moment of sadness, we mourn his death, but we celebrate his contribution,” Pereira said.