LM grew up in a small village on the Indonesian island of Java where food was central to daily life. “My mother, my grandparents, my aunts always cooked – food brought us together,” says LM (a pseudonym), who arrived in Hong Kong 23 years ago to work as a domestic helper and later joined her…
Sarah Tong, co-founder and CEO, Big Bang Academy: For transforming STEM education and inspiring young girls and women to lead in science “Because of what I do, I am in two of the fields where women are still under-represented: in STEM and in entrepreneurship. Globally, women make up over half of all students who have…
Overall, the front lines of Syria’s civil war have been stagnant since 2020, although there have been fierce episodic clashes. For the past four years, Assad has controlled much of the country and its largest cities; a Turkey-tolerated, HTS-led alliance of mostly Islamist rebels have remained squeezed in an enclave in Idlib and parts of…