South Korea: Beacon of hope for Asia in times of climate change, global warming
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL, GERMANY: South Korea holds a prominent position among the developed countries with a total population of 51.8 million. This is despite the obstacles and difficulties faced by neighboring countries. The total area of the Korean Peninsula is estimated at approximately 100,329 square kilometers, with a population density of 530.7 people […]
Metropolitan Busan: South Korea’s main gate to the outside world
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL, GERMANY: Busan is considered one of South Korea’s most important metropolitan areas and a source of pride for every South Korean as it is South Korea’s premier commercial port and gateway to the outside world. It is one of South Korea’s closest cities to Japan. There are only 190 kilometers […]
Enhancing the use of social media as an early warning system
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: Social media should finally play an important role in society. As the name suggests, these are social and can take on important tasks as media – being in the service of a healthy society. This is another chance and a challenge as well, to give social media more responsible objectives […]
Stigma caused by isolation in modern society
By Dr. Hassan Humeida – KIEL, GERMANY: We live in a world heavily tainted with stigmatization of all kinds. A high-performance world in which we rarely see or tolerate people with disabilities in public. Even old people who lived under one roof with their relatives in past decades and who have set ways accents […]
The poisoning of life by drugs – Direct and indirect effects
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: Today, many people are not satisfied with themselves, their performance or surroundings. Today’s man is in search of the perfect drug that can make everything possible in life. It doesn’t matter what the drug is made of, it can be chemical, herbal, or both in one compound. What matters is […]
The booming business of weapons: Winners and losers
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: Weapons are proliferating worldwide and are particularly plentiful among the poorest sections of the population. Weapons can kill people, but cannot feed people, in any way, anywhere. A big business can be made globally with weapons and their trade, buying, selling and exportation. This is in favor of the weapon […]
In the wake of the Texas school shooting … Guns instead of Pens?
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: It has been days since the fatal shots were fired. This time in an elementary school. The casualties? 22 dead, including 19 schoolchildren, two teachers and the perpetrator, who was to die from police shots so that no more people, especially schoolchildren and teaching staff, would be killed. This […]
Current status of fact-checking by global journalism
By Dr. Hassan Humeida Kiel, Germany KIEL: In all open societies, we tend to stress the importance of facts, full facts, and not half facts or zero facts (known today as fake news), because they have a very strong impact on the people, the community and the country. False information, misinformation and disinformation can cause enormous […]
World Press Freedom Day
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL, GERMANY: It’s May 3 again with The World Press Freedom Day as every year. This day has been celebrated worldwide since 1994 and serves to draw attention to the fundamental importance of free reporting for the existence of democracies. The World Press Freedom Day of this year appears different; the corona […]
Journalists’ perspectives change societies
Speech delivered by Hassan Humeida, at the World Journalists Conference (WJC2022) “As carriers of important messages, journalists are able to positively change entire societies and make them better and special. Journalists do not carry guns, but they have stronger influence with their peaceful means – such as pen, paper, camera, news, information, facts that they […]