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Asian View

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Key words : uganda
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210622_35/

Eight members of Uganda's Olympic team have been found to have had close contact with another member who tested positive for the coronavirus upon arrival in Japan last weekend.

This was announced by officials of the western Japanese city of Izumisano, which is hosting a training camp for the nine-member team.

The member who got the virus is now staying at a state-designated facility.

The other eight tested negative, and traveled to Izumisano in Osaka Prefecture on Sunday by chartered bus.

City officials said a local public health center determined that the eight members and a city employee who accompanied the team had close contact with the infected member.

City authorities have asked the eight to stay in a hotel until July 3. They plan to consult the center and others before deciding when the athletes can start training.

Key words : indonesia tightening
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210622_27/

The Indonesian government is tightening coronavirus restrictions in response to a surge in new infections, with the number rising to a record high 14,536 on Monday.

The daily tally of new cases in the Southeast Asian country had dropped to the vicinity of 2,000 but started climbing again this month. The country's cumulative total has surpassed the 2 million mark.

Officials say the spike has likely been driven by people who traveled last month for the holidays following Ramadan. Authorities also say the Delta variant, first identified in India, has been spreading in the country.

Starting on Tuesday, the government is requiring some firms in areas with high infection rates to have 75 percent of their employees work from home.
Meanwhile in some areas of the capital, Jakarta, people have been told to stay home in the evenings except for essential outings.

Key words : north sister
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210622_26/

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister says the United States has a wrong expectation for possibly resuming dialogue with the North.

North Korea's ruling party newspaper reported last week that Kim Jong Un stressed the need to prepare for both dialogue and confrontation with the US. On Sunday, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called the comment an "interesting signal."

In a statement released on the Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday, his sister Kim Yo Jong said "the US may interpret the situation in such a way as to seek a comfort for itself."

She expressed a negative view about resuming dialogue, saying "the expectation, which they chose to harbour the wrong way, would plunge them into a greater disappointment."

Pyongyang says Washington must end its hostile policy toward the North before dialogue can resume.

Key words : gender equality hayashi kaori
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1640/

The elite University of Tokyo has a gender gap problem. Only one in five of the students in its 2021 intake was female, and that's the best the balance has ever been. But in a sign that things may be changing, the 144-year-old institution has, for the first time ever, an executive board with more women than men. NHK World correspondent Aizawa Yuko spoke to one of the new board members about what the milestone means.