China marked International Women's Day on Saturday with vibrant celebrations and diverse events across the country, honoring women's contributions and promoting gender equality through cultural, health, and career-focused initiatives.
The All-China Women's Federation launched a series of activities to celebrate women's roles in social and economic development.
Women in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, and Changsha, Hunan, participated in group fitness walks, while those in Shanghai, Tianjin, Xiongan New Area in Hebei, Lanzhou in Gansu, and Jiayin in Heilongjiang engaged in crafting traditional items like velvet flowers and mother-of-pearl inlays.
Free medical checkups and health workshops were held in Xining, Qinghai, while a women-focused job fair in Zhengzhou, Henan, offered career-planning guidance and policy briefings.
In Yiwu, Zhejiang, female entrepreneurs shared their firsthand experiences of leveraging AI and other new technologies to drive the growth of small commodity trade.
Meanwhile, multiple locations in Liaoning hosted forums showcasing women's vital role in the comprehensive revitalization of northeast China.
Activities held across China to celebrate Int'l Women' Day, honor women's contributions, promote gender equality
The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.
The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.
Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.
"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.
Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.
Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.
"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.
Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight
