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A woman enters an emergency room with a sore arm and jaw pain. She fears she is having a heart attack – women are more likely to experience jaw pain as a warning sign.Her mother and grandmother both suffered one, so her concerns are valid. But instead of being tested for one, a doctor tells her she is too anxious and needs to calm down.Having symptoms dismissed, misdiagnosed or ignored, often with devastating consequences, is a scene played out all too often for women, says Dr Marjorie Jenkins, a US doctor specialising in sex- and gender-based medicine.A poster for Women’s Health in Focus: A Global Summit. Photo: Amara CommunicationsTaking place at the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, the summit brings together more than 40 global leaders from healthcare, technology, investment and entrepren...

It is April in Hualien, a county on the east coast of Taiwan, and visitors on a Truku tribe experience tour, led by guide Dai Xinzhe, are sweating from the oppressive heat and humidity.We are here to learn more about the Truku people, one of the island’s 16 recognised indigenous groups.Misclassified by scholars and academics as part of the Atayal tribe, the Truku were officially recognised in 2004. The tribe have been keepers of traditions, warriors against colonisation and quiet architects of Taiwan’s cultural identity. Their history is written in flax fibres, battle scars and the very stones of the mountains they once called home.At the start of the tour, the clothing of the Truku tribe is explained. For them, weaving (pronounced tminun) is a spiritual practice woven into life’s mileston...

Para Site and Asia Art Archive (AAA), two long-standing independent cultural institutions in Hong Kong, are simultaneously seeking new executive directors at a pivotal moment for the city’s cultural scene.On June 2, Para Site in Quarry Bay announced that Billy Tang had stepped down as executive director and curator after concluding his three-year contract.The British-born former senior curator of Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum took over from Cosmin Costinas – who had run Para Site for 11 years – in May 2022, just as Hong Kong lifted its Covid-19 pandemic ban on non-residents entering the city.Since then, the non-profit art space founded in 1996 has undergone major changes, such as embracing more environmentally friendly and longer-running exhibitions, and opening an additional exhibition s...

Back in 2014, between the first and second seasons of the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley in which he had a supporting role, Jimmy O. Yang spent his days moonlighting as an Uber driver.The Hong Kong-born Hollywood hopeful used a pay cheque for his role in the series as Jian-Yang – he received the Screen Actors Guild minimum of US$900 a day – to buy a used Toyota Prius hybrid, which he would drive around Los Angeles to earn the money to pay his rent.“You never know, especially as an actor, where your next pay cheque comes from,” he tells the Post. Only when he was promoted to a series regular did he finally feel he had the safety net he had long desired. “At least now all my rent will be paid for,” he recalls thinking.Fast forward a decade and O. Yang has achieved the rarefied success that...

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