Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto and former Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan have also declared their readiness to be presidential candidates.  

Questions such as “Are you married?” and “Have you got any children?” assume that every adult woman in most Asian countries is heterosexual, married and, presumably, a mother, say these writers.

Some Japanese fret that maskless tourists will set off another surge in infections, while others argue that Japan should catch up with the rest of the world and abandon masks, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.

Among the decades-old businesses that have been affected in one way or another by the Northern Metropolis project are a sawmill, an oyster farm and a soy sauce factory.