News Headlines - 12 November 2019
It was the second day Chinese University (CUHK) was plunged into hours-long, intense confrontations between police and anti-government demonstrators. It was also a day police fired tear gas outside City University as early as 7.20am, and got into a showdown with students at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
▽Japan 'glasses ban' for women at work sparks backlash - BBC News
Several local news outlets said some companies had "banned" eyewear for female employees for various reasons.
Among them, some retail chains reportedly said glasses-wearing shop assistants gave a "cold impression".
That has sparked heated discussion on Japanese social media over dress practices and women in the workplace.
Police on Tuesday referred to prosecutors the case of an 88-year-old former senior bureaucrat who was involved in a Tokyo car crash that left a toddler and her mother dead and prompted many elderly Japanese to surrender their driver’s licenses for fear of causing a similar accident.
The police concluded after a seven-month investigation that the April accident was caused by Kozo Iizuka, former head of the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, rather than a problem with his car.
▽The downfall of Carlos Ghosn | Financial Times
Ghosn is confined to Tokyo under the terms of a $13.5m bail agreement... No start date has been set for the trial, which could ultimately cost him many more years of freedom. He can see his children but not his second wife Carole. When he leaves his flat, he is tailed by three agencies: the police, prosecutors and a private detective believed to be hired by the very company he once saved from bankruptcy.
▽1.5 years after penis and scrotum transplant, injured veteran feels 'whole' again
A veteran who lost his legs and genitals when a roadside bomb exploded in Afghanistan is doing well a year and a half after undergoing the first full total penis and scrotum transplant.
His surgeons at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore provided an update about the man's condition in a letter published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
