Women recognised as Confucius kin for first time
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Women are to be recognised for the first time as descendants of Confucius in a new family tree of the ancient Chinese philosopher, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
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ASIA/CINA - Il grande impegno per lÂevangelizzazione della diocesi di Wei Nan, che si sta mobilitando per vivere il mese della Missione e la Giornata Missionaria Wei Nan (Agenzia Fides) - Catechismo, evangelizzazione specifica per fasce di etÃ  (bambini, studenti universitari, adulti), formazione cristiana (dei laici, dei catechisti, dei sacerdoti, delle religioseÂ), scambio dellÂesperienza di fede con i catto...
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NEW DELHI, July 21 -- Lawmakers elected India's first female president, officials announced Saturday, in a vote seen as a step forward for the millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life.
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Pratibha Patil has been elected as India's first female president, voting officials say.
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The largest trade organization for the advertising industry is poised to name a woman as its leader for the first time in its 91-year history.
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MALACCA'S Alia Anin Azwa Bakri proved that age is but a number when she won the Open and Under-14 gold medals - the first of the 2nd National Women Games - at the National Sports Complex in Bukit Jalil yesterday.
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Indian lawmakers have selected the nation's first female president in a vote seen as a symbolic victory for women contending with widespread discrimination, election officials said Saturday.
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Text of report by Papua New Guinea newspaper The National website on 6 June  [by Zachery Per]  Young men and women from the Eastern Highlands Province will be able to work in China and learn the Chinese language.
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Indian soldiers join Chinese troops on their shared border to mark China's national day for the first time.
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Yiyun Li wins the Â£10,000 Guardian First Book Award for her book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
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Qinghai Province has offered peasant women a medicare scheme that covers medical expenses related to childbirth. One of the first beneficiaries, Zhoema, a herder&#39;s wife in Guinan County, paid 50 yuan (US$6
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The move completed the first orderly transfer of power in Communist Party history, state media announced.
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A new, official and smiling image of Confucius has sparked philosophical debate in China over whether it is needed and whether or not it looks anything like him.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the most powerful woman in the world while Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi has risen to second place in Forbes' magazine's annual list, the company said in a statement on Friday.
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Representatives of first families stretching back almost a half-century came to pay respect at the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson.
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To get a sense of what kind of legacy Benazir Bhutto, the Muslim world's first female leader, left behind for the women of Pakistan, look no further than those who were contending for the top spot in the political party she led.
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Muslim women from 25 countries met in New York to lay the groundwork for the first all-female  council.