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South Asia
Major news in Nepal : SC recommends action against two appeal judges
Top news in <The Himalayan Times> : SC recommends action against two appeal judges Says granting bail to man accused of attempt-to-murder was wrong KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court has referred a case related to two appellate court judges, who had freed an attempt-to-murder accused by granting bail, to the Judicial…
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South Asia
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
A Pakistani man walks past a pile of burning drugs during an event marking the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, June 26, 2012. About 2,500 kilograms of drugs were burned during the ceremony organized by the anti-narcotics force in Islamabad on…
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Education
Scenery of Examination Room in Yemen
Yemeni students take their final exam in a classroom in Sanaa, capital of Yemen, June 26, 2012. The illiteracy rate stands at 29.8 percent for men and 62.1 percent for women in the war-torn country. The Yemeni government has taken measures to improve education among the people to decrease illiteracy.…
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East Asia
Foreign Journalists Feel What Division Is At DMZ
Foreign journalists pose with a military police when they visited Dorasan Station, located nearest to the DMZ dividing South and North Korea, in Paju, Geyong-gi province, as part of their DMZ tour Sunday (June 24). The foreign journalists visited Seoul to attend the International Media Conference held at Yonsei University on June 22-24.…
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Visa rules for Chinese tourists to be eased
The Ministry of Justice said Tuesday that it will allow more Chinese nationals to obtain multiple-entry visas or enter the country without a visa from Aug. 1. “We are improving the visa system to attract more Chinese tourists to the country. We expect the new rules to help boost the…
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Society
Neolithic farm field found in Gangwon Province
Researchers have found evidence proving that farming took place in Korea 5,000 years ago. The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage said Tuesday that archaeological traces presumed to be East Asia’s first Neolithic remains of an agricultural field have been found in a northern province. The discovery in Goseong, Gangwon…
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Politics
Potemkin village in Pyongyang?
Sleek and modern: The words are rarely used to describe North Korea. Yet the latest addition to the Pyongyang skyline, a set of new apartments in the central Mansudae district appears from the outside to be just that. But while the North touts it as progress, the jury is still…
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Politics
China-NK economic ties benefit S. Korea
MANILA –– Growing economic cooperation between China and North Korea could lead to the latter’s economic reform and eventual opening up of its economy to the outside world, experts said. “(South Korea) doesn’t have to look at the strengthening economic relationship between Beijing and Pyongyang only as a threat since…
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Mental health checkup
Changes needed in perception, infrastructure Korea has one of the world’s highest suicide rates, scores among the lowest on happiness indexes, a serious overdrinking problem, and ominous school violence. A word that best sums up such a society is “abnormal.” So it seems only natural, if long belated, that the…
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Column
US-Burma ties: from isolation to engagement
After years of diplomatic tension over isolation and sanctions, U.S.-Burma relations improved in recent months. What prospects does this rapprochement have? The relationship between the United States and Burma was mostly cordial in the years following Burma’s independence from the British in 1948. It was strained by the Burmese military…
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