Explosion at school complex in Indonesia’s Jakarta, local media reports, Asia News
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Explosion at school complex in Indonesia’s Jakarta, local media reports, Asia News

JAKARTA — Dozens of people were injured and hospitalised after an explosion occurred during Friday (Nov 7) prayers at a mosque inside a school complex in Indonesia's capital Jakarta, police said. Police were investigating the cause of explosion at the site in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta, city police chief Asep Edi Suheri told a televised press conference. The number of people admitted to hospitals was 54, he said, adding the injuries ranged from minor to serious and included burns. News channels KompasTV and MetroTV showed footage of a police line around the school with ambulances standing by. Images of the mosque showed no extensive damage. ]
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Are fewer young people identifying as trans?
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Are fewer young people identifying as trans?

Are young Americans becoming less likely to identify as trans? This claim is getting a lot of attention on social media after two researchers published survey data appearing to show a shift in youth gender identity.The first analysis came from Eric Kaufmann, a Canadian professor of politics at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, and a longtime anti-PC and anti-”woke” crusader. In early October, Kaufmann published a report titled “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity Among Young Americans.”“The transgender share among university students peaked in 2023 and has almost halved since, from nearly 7 percent to under 4 percent,” Kaufmann writes in that report. A few days later, Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, posted on X that “trans identification really is in free fall among the young,” citing...
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Asia Real Estate People in the News 2025-09-08
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Asia Real Estate People in the News 2025-09-08

Once-niche sectors continue to be the top place to find your new job this week with senior appointments in life sciences and data centres leading Mingtiandi’s review of personnel moves, while retail makes a comeback in Australia. Life sciences platform Vita Partners announced this past week that it has appointed Thomas Viertel as managing director of projects and construction, based in Singapore. Viertel joins the joint venture between Warburg Pincus and Lendlease from design and engineering consultancy VTU Group in Austria, where he had served as managing director of the company’s life sciences group for the past three years. Darren Ansell has joined regional data centre heavyweight AirTrunk as senior director for real estate, based in Singapore, according to a LinkedIn update. Ansell joins the Australia-based firm after just under and year and half at ESR Group,...
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