Tag: Global Health Security
10 months ago
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How South Korea is harnessing AI to ease its ‘super-ageing’ crisis

More than a fifth of the population is set to be 65 and older by 2025. To meet rising demand among the old, South Kor...

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10 months ago
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Why genetically modified fish are being bred to fight rare childhood diseases

An innovative precision medicine initiative is leading the way in determining the cause – and treatment – of inherite...

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10 months ago
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Why genetically modified fish are being bred to fight rare childhood diseases

An innovative precision medicine initiative is leading the way in determining the cause – and treatment – of inherite...

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10 months ago
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World Bank urged to review funding of hospital chain linked to ‘cash for kidneys’ racket

India’s scandal-hit Apollo Hospital group has received £120 million in investments from the World Bank since 2005

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11 months ago
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North Korean defectors take on China over forced returns of fellow escapees

Those returned to North Korea face prospect of life-long imprisonment, torture and even execution, activists say

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11 months ago
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Itaewon Halloween crush: Survivors and grieving families left adrift a year on from Seoul disaster

As the tragedy’s first anniversary approaches, victims say they are still waiting for answers – and accountability

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about 1 year ago
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Air pollution is knocking up to eight years off life expectancy in these countries

Report warns that pollution caused by fine particulate matter remains the world’s greatest external risk to human health

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about 1 year ago
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US urged to tackle lawless ‘Golden Triangle’ home to tiger breeding, crypto scams and prostitution

A 30-square kilometre enclave has become a hotbed of transnational crime centred on drug production and illegal wildl...

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about 1 year ago
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Why South Korea’s cosmetic surgery empire is both a source of pride and pain

Questions are being asked of the country’s difficult relationship with beauty ideals as it looks to further grow its ...

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about 1 year ago
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Hikikomori in Japan: The ‘shut-in’ syndrome that created a generation of recluses

Authorities step up efforts to counter the social and economic impact of a wave of loneliness affecting 1.5 million y...

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over 1 year ago
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Three dead and 93 infected after reported Anthrax outbreak in Indonesia

Anthrax is a serious infectious disease that occurs naturally in soil and commonly affects domestic and wild animals

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over 1 year ago
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How AI can help bring the world’s dictators and despots to justice

Interview: The new head of Human Rights Watch believes the new technology will turbo charge the fight against global ...

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over 1 year ago
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Myanmar bomb attack: How the junta vapourised the village of Pa Zi Gyi

Investigation: The Telegraph explores the events and aftermath of a brutal massacre that killed 170 villagers in cent...

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over 1 year ago
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How AI is learning to read the human mind

New AI technology in development could transform lives but also raises urgent ethical and legal questions

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over 1 year ago
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South Korea’s largest adoption agency fined over man’s ‘abusive’ overseas adoption

Adam Crapser was sent to adoptive parents in the US during the 1970s – a period described as mass ‘child export’ from...

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over 1 year ago
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Scientists’ AMR warning over government’s new ‘pharmacy-first’ policy

In an open letter to Rishi Sunak, a coalition of eminent scientists urge caution against a policy that could have har...

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over 1 year ago
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South Korea’s deadly crowd crush forces it to confront a growing suicide crisis

The traumatic aftermath of the Itaewon Halloween tragedy is a warning to a country with the highest suicide rate in t...

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over 1 year ago
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Blindness, brain damage and burns: Violent crackdowns on protests leaves 120,000 seriously injured

Violence from governments and security forces become ‘increasingly common‘ and indicates an ‘alarming trend’ in polic...

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over 1 year ago
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Vietnam’s bear bile farms are feeding an illegal trade in alternative medicine

An end is in sight to the horrific trade, but the surviving animals are left traumatised from psychological and physi...

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over 1 year ago
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How South Korea avoided a national lockdown

Testing was the key to success, the country's leading pandemic expert tells The Telegraph in an exclusive interview

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over 1 year ago
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South Korea’s feminist wave paves way for smaller – but fairer – society

Modern-day Koreans reject societal expectations by turning their backs on marriage and babies, to the alarm of demogr...

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over 1 year ago
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Mongolia to screen entire population for hidden diseases in ambitious health drive

Country’s health minister says the government hopes the new programme will identify serious ailments before they beco...

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over 1 year ago
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World witnessed ‘a sea of human suffering’ in year of global crises

Report highlights the anguish brought by war in Ukraine, China’s crackdown in Xinjiang and the crushing of women’s ri...

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almost 2 years ago
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South Korea launches investigation into suspicious adoptions of children to the West

Following a Telegraph investigation, authorities are to examine claims of deception around many of the babies’ true i...

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almost 2 years ago
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The deadliest crowd crushes – and how to survive them

South Korea is in a period of national mourning following Saturday's devastating crush. But such events are unfortuna...

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almost 2 years ago
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Princess Anne to remain in Ugandan capital even as Ebola epidemic rages

The Princess Royal will plough on with her visit to Uganda, despite calls for a lockdown in Kampala

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almost 2 years ago
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Musicians and miners among 80 dead in junta airstike on concert

The attack is the largest airstrike by the junta since it seized power in Myanmar, and has drawn widespread internati...

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almost 2 years ago
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Indonesian women join Iran's hijab protests amid fears own rights under threat

As Iran's women continue to rail against mandatory hijabs, Muslim women in Indonesia fear their own freedom to choose...

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about 2 years ago
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Middle-class migrant trap as traffickers lure white collar workers into bogus overseas jobs

Gangs are enticing young, educated Asians with the promise of well-paid tech jobs, only to force them to work under d...

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about 2 years ago
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Authoritarianism is catching: How China’s creeping influence is changing Asia

Elaine Pearson, the new HRW Asia director, speaks about a sinister political shift – and how grandmother was sold to ...

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about 2 years ago
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UK will support Rohingya ‘genocide’ court case as refugees mark five years since fleeing Myanmar

Rohingya were forced to flee gang rape, torture, slaughter and arson, taking refuge in overflowing camps in Bangladesh

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about 2 years ago
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Flight risk: the fight to halt a never ending lockdown for Taiwan’s pilots

As the global aviation sector gradually returns to pre-pandemic travel norms, Taiwan-based pilots are still stuck fir...

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over 2 years ago
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Taiwan’s birth rate sinks to alarming low as pampered pets replace babies

Analysts estimate the number of domestic pets have surpassed the number of children under the age of 15

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over 2 years ago
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Pacific nations struggle to beat back Covid as omicron seeps through borders

The virus has arrived in a largely untouched region, while an outbreak on a Navy ship threatens to disrupt critical a...

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over 2 years ago
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Tonga volcano: experts warn of long term health impacts

Tongans face higher risk of respiratory illness, waterborne disease and lack of nutrition in aftermath of massive vol...

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almost 3 years ago
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Papua New Guinea’s fragile health system pushed to the brink as Covid infections ‘skyrocket’

Rife misinformation and a slow vaccine rollout have contributed to a surge of Covid in the Pacific nation, overwhelmi...

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almost 3 years ago
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Analysis documents nearly 300 attacks against health workers under Myanmar's brutal coup

Junta has used health care to target suspected opposition activists and driven doctors underground

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about 3 years ago
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Rohingya refugee children self-harming after fires, floods and Covid-19

Save the Chlidren has warned that a horrific year in refugee camps is triggering past traumas of fleeing Myanmar's mi...

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about 3 years ago
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Pioneering study could launch ‘dream’ vaccine to halt future pandemics

Scientists in Singapore have identified a new strategy to develop a next-generation vaccine effective against variant...

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