Government mulls amending law on conferring Malaysian citizenship
Petaling Jaya: Malaysia is looking at amending Article 14 of the Federal Constitution to allow Malaysian mothers to pass on automatically their citizenship to their children born overseas. Under the current law, only Malaysian fathers are allowed to obtain automatically the Malaysian citizenship for their children born overseas whereas mothers have to submit applications. “Today, […]
Gender equality may lead to economic growth: vice gender equality minister
Increasing gender equality in the workplace will give the South Korean economy additional momentum to grow further, the vice minister of gender equality and family said Monday. “Gender diversity in the labor market will help a country or a company enhance flexibility in adapting to changing society and demand, upgrade their policy-making process and expand […]
World needs 250 years to fill gender gap in parliaments: IPU President
The world needs 250 years to fill the gender gap in its parliaments if the annual incremental increase persists at one percent, the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has warned. “We are going in the right direction regarding gender issues in parliaments,” Gabriela Cuevas Barron said. “However, we are not as optimistic as we […]
S. Korea: Gender minister vows legal efforts to ban sexism on Int’l Women’s Day
As South Korea joined in celebrating International Women’s Day on Friday, the gender minister pledged efforts to enact laws to ban discrimination based on one’s sex and to secure education on gender equality. “Gender equality is a key step toward building a solid democracy. … I will join hands with all the people in […]
2018 Top Asian News
Many things happened during 2018: power shifts, wars, terrorist attacks, new laws and new scientific discoveries. Among all those news, we selected the most significant ones. Here go the top ten Asian news of the current year. Inter-Korean Dialogue and US-NK Talks – The international community opens the door to North Korea The NK-US summit in […]
Buddhism is a Gender Equal Religion. Or Maybe Not.
Buddhism in the Korean Peninsula Buddhism is one of the main religions in South Korea: in fact, 15.5% of the population is Buddhist. The religion first came to the Korean peninsula from China during the 4th century. Nowadays, there are the different schools of Seon (Korean Zen), Jogye Order, Taego, Cheontae, Jingak Order and Won […]
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