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Kavita Daswani is an Indian-American author. Her novels, such as Salaam, Paris , deal with the Indian practice of arranged marriages, and features heroines that refuse to go along with tradition.
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Kavita Daswani is an Indian-American author. Her novels, such as Salaam, Paris , deal with the Indian practice of arranged marriages, and features heroines that refuse to go along with tradition.
She grew up in Hong Kong, starting her career at age 17 as a journalist for South China Morning Post . She moved to Los Angeles in 2000.
Her books represent the changes taking place in the diaspora Indian communities, especially regarding institutions such as marriage, the wife's role in families, and increasing opportunities for women. Daswani's combination of humor and culture tension make her books an escapist read.
She was once matched with a man in Nashik, India, who, it turned out, had spent two days in jail for having strippers in his bar. [1]
She has been a fashion correspondent for CNN, CNBC Asia, and Women's Wear Daily , [2] has written for the Los Angeles Times and the International Herald Tribune, among many other publications, and has been the fashion editor for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee is a Chinese politician. She is currently the Convenor of the Executive Council (ExCo) and a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), as well as the founder and current chairperson of the New People's Party. She was formerly a prominent government official of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and was the first woman to be appointed the Secretary for Security to head the disciplinary service. She is also the founder and Chairwoman of Savantas Policy Institute, a think-tank in Hong Kong.
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Christine Loh Kung-wai, SBS, OBE, JP, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, is a former Hong Kong Legislative Councillor, founder and CEO of Civic Exchange, founder of the Citizens Party, and founder of Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor. From 2012 to 2017, she was Under Secretary for the Environment in the government of CY Leung. From April 2019 to March 2020, she was Special Consultant to the HKSAR Chief Executive of Ecological Civilization and the Greater Bay Area, attached to the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office.
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The 2022 Women's East Asia Cup was a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket tournament held in Kaizuka, Osaka, Japan in October 2022. This was the fourth edition of the women's East Asia Cup, and was originally scheduled to involve the same teams as in all previous editions, namely China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. China and South Korea both withdrew from this year's tournament, and so Japan and Hong Kong played a four-match series to determine the winner. The four member countries signed an agreement in 2021 to make the women's East Asia Cup an annual event, but the 2021 event was cancelled due to COVID-19. China won the previous tournament in 2019.
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