Portal:Current events/2018 October 22
October 22, 2018 (Monday)
Business and economy
- After nine years of construction, China is expected to open the world's longest sea bridge, Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, at a ceremony in Hong Kong. (Business Insider)
Disasters and accidents
- Two passenger buses collide in the city of Dera Ghazi Khan, in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, resulting in 19 deaths and 40 injuries. (The Express Tribune) (Arab News)
Politics and elections
- British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2018
- The Canadian province of British Columbia begins a postal ballot to determine whether to maintain the current first-past-the-post voting system or switch to a form of proportional representation for their provincial elections. (Elections BC)
- Transgender rights
- The Trump administration through the United States Department of Health and Human Services plans to include a legal definition of gender in the federal civil rights Title IX law. The proposed alteration to the law would define gender as an unchangeable anatomical and genetic condition determined at birth. Members of the LGBT community plan to contest the move, which they state would largely end protections for transgender Americans. (The New York Times) (NPR)