OK, internet Kanji Police, how bad is this? In the past few days I’ve asked for receipts at three shops and none of the people (Japanese) I asked could write “理事会.” One was a young adult, two were middle-aged.
Is this a shoulder shrug or death of our Harmonious Society?

#Israel launched an attack on #Iran , sources told Reuters, in the latest tit-for-tat exchange between the two arch foes, whose decades of shadow war has broken out into the open and threatened to drag the region deeper into conflict.
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Alternative angles of iconic landmarks you haven’t seen before - a thread🧵👇

1. Great Pyramid of Giza from above

Editor: “please check the proofs carefully as this is the last opportunity to correct errors before publication”

Academics: “yeah, looks sweet 🤘”

Ben Franklin died today in 1790. The only man to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris and the Constitution.
His last public act was to urge abolition. Congress ignored him

China’s demand for traditional medicine e-jiao fuels the slaughter of millions of #donkeys a year, experts say. This is rippling across communities in Africa that rely heavily on donkeys to eases the work burden on many women and girls.
Reuters #阿膠
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#Myanmar 's former leader, Nobel laureate #AungSanSuuKyi , 78, has been moved from prison to house arrest, said the junta. It has detained her since its 2021 coup on charges ranging from treason and bribery to telecoms violations, which she denies.
Reuters
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#Vietnam has mounted an 'unprecedented' rescue of Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank ( #SCB ), engulfed in the nation’s biggest financial #fraud , according to bank documents and official information provided to Reuters by a person with access to the docs.
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