Rallies, races held across east Asia to demand women’s rights

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Bangkok/Tokyo/Hong Kong, Mar 8 (EFE).- Women’s Day was marked across east Asia with rallies, runs, and other events on Friday.

In Bangkok, hundreds of women demonstrated in the historic center of the city to call for better labor protection and to double maternity leave to six months, a proposal that was debated the day before in Parliament.

In the streets of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, thousands of…