Kate Hodal

Writing and reporting on the @guardian's Global Development and Modern-Day Slavery desks. Former @guardian Southeast Asia correspondent.

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This president is putting his money where is mouth is when it comes to an NHI

Article Kate Hodal - 12 Mar 2019

Mali joins the ranks of countries such as Sierra Leone, South Africa & Burkina Faso to provide free healthcare to moms and tots.

Scientists confirm what women always knew: Men really are the weaker sex

Article Kate Hodal - 7 Feb 2018

In times of famine, epidemic and hardship over the past 250 years, women have consistently outlived men, find researchers

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Women forced into sex to pay hospital bills, study says

Article Kate Hodal & Bhekisisa Team - 16 Jan 2018

Patients too poor to settle medical debts are chained to drain pipes, starved and abused in health centres across parts of Africa.

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Feel unsafe? There’s an app for that

Article Kate Hodal - 27 Feb 2017

With crime rates high and no efficient emergency number available, an app developed by a student aims to make people in Kenya feel safer.

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Medical smart jacket tackles misdiagnosis of pneumonia

Article Kate Hodal - 12 Jan 2017

Jacket would detect symptoms up to four times faster than a doctor.

Indonesia’s police humiliated with ‘virginity tests’

Article Kate Hodal - 20 Nov 2014

Women wanting to join the county’s security force have to undergo a traumatic and painful "virginity" test guised as being a test for STDs.

Brunei’s first-ever commercial feature film

Article Kate Hodal - 24 Oct 2013

In one of many firsts, the film-crazy nation of Brunei will feature in a full-length movie.

Malaysians ‘in the mood’ for political change

Africa Kate Hodal - 12 Jul 2012

Anwar Ibrahim is fighting his last fight: to be Malaysia's next prime minister, a battle for which he has been preparing for a very long time.

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Plans set for Aung San Suu Kyi’s first trip in 24 years

Article Kate Hodal - 19 Apr 2012

Burma's newly elected MP Aung San Suu Kyi has accepted invitations to visit Norway and the UK -- her first overseas trips in 24 years.

Thais lead Twitter assault

Article Kate Hodal - 3 Feb 2012

Thailand has become the first government to publicly endorse Twitter's controversial decision to censor messages in certain countries.

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Thai minister’s friendship with Mugabe ‘strictly social’

Article Kate Hodal - 25 Jan 2012

Questions have been raised over Thai prime minister's appointment of Nalinee Taveesin to Cabinet, who counts Zimbabwe's president as a friend.

‘Third sex’ get chance to fly Thai high

Article Kate Hodal - 20 Jan 2012

Thai airline becomes the first in the country to employ transgender people.

Press Releases

Special Reports

Adventures, ghost tours and big skies await visitors to the Cape Winelands

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

All of the CWDM destinations are accessible within a 30- to 120-minute drive from Cape Town, creating real value for money

Special Reports

SingularityU Online Summit to contribute to SME growth in 2020

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

The global speakers lined up for this year's event will address the challenges and opportunities specifically facing small businesses

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Policy priorities lie with urgent economic reforms

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

Professor Raymond Parsons believes that business and consumer sentiment in South Africa would both benefit from even lower borrowing costs

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Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria to reopen on Heritage Day

special reports - 22 Sep 2020

The new, drive-through sculpture exhibition brings to four the number of exhibitions of iconic African and South African art

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Request for Quotation for Benguela Current Convention Secretariat

special reports - 19 Sep 2020

A chartered aircraft for an aerial survey and counting software for cape fur seals and seabirds in Angola, Namibia and South Africa is required

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Fifteen additional speakers for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

SingularityU hosts global line-up with an extra 15 speakers to address thought-provoking topics to help solve the world's grand challenges

Special Reports

Recycling water and waste management

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

One solution to South Africa's water shortage is to install infrastructure that will save rainwater from run-off into the stormwater system

Special Reports

Covid-19 and CVD: The heart in the time of crisis

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

The pandemic has been a time of great humility for health workers and tactics have had to be changed if they weren’t working