• Culture

    Comedian Park Ji-sun found dead at home: Police

    SEOUL: Popular female comedian Park Ji-sun was found dead alongside her mother at her home in Seoul, police said. Police discovered them lying dead at around 1:44 p.m. after getting a report from her father that he could not contact both of them. Park was reportedly under treatment for an…

    Read More »
  • Politics

    Pompeo tells Sri Lanka United States seeks to strengthen partnership

    By Leo Nirosha Darshan ENCL – Colombo COLOMBO: US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told Sri Lanka Chinese Communist Party is a predator. We see from bad deals, violations of sovereignty and lawlessness on land and sea. The United States comes in a different way.  We come as a friend…

    Read More »
  • World

    Turkey’s 4,115-year-old tree dates to Bronze Age

    ANTALYA: A 4,115-year-old yew tree, the oldest in Turkey, has been around since the Bronze Age and is sturdy enough to live for another four millennia, the Environment and Urbanization Ministry has said. “The age of the oldest tree has been detected by experts in the Karadeniz Technical University. It…

    Read More »
  • IT-Science

    Lee Kun-hee, the leader who transformed Samsung, changed how the world communicates

    By Habib Toumi SEOUL: One of the greatest merits of Lee Kun-hee was that as a true leader with great inspirations and impressive aspirations, he would not leave the world with the tragic thought that he “could have”, “should have” or “might have” done more to make Samsung a global…

    Read More »
  • IT-Science

    Samsung Innovation Museum in Suwon shows how technology has altered the way we get news

      By Habib Toumi SUWON: People fascinated by mass communication and the development of electronic devices and tools from the early days to our modern world have a great opportunity to monitor and admire this progress at the Samsung Innovation Museum. Here, one of the three exhibitions in the impeccable…

    Read More »
  • World

    Alireza Bahrami’s poem in the war zone of Qarabagh 

    By Alireza Bahrami TEHRAN: Alireza Bahrami, an Iranian poet and journalist, wrote a poem about the situation of children in the war after the outbreak of the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The translation of this poem has been published by Armenian and Azeri Iranian poets as well as anti-war activists…

    Read More »
  • Society

    Central Vietnam ravaged by Typhoon Molave

    By Lan Phong Head of World News, Dantri Online Newspaper, Vietnam HANOI: Thousands of houses have been damaged, and trees uprooted as Typhoon Molave hit the area of 500 kilometres along the central coastal region of Vietnam on Wednesday afternoon. The storm, said to be the strongest in 20 years in…

    Read More »
  • Business

    Lee Kun-hee’s spirit of innovation should thrive long after the Chairman is gone

    By Habib Toumi Bahrain: I visited South Korea for the first time in March 2019, a guest of the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK) and the Asia Journalists Association (AJA) and a speaker at the World Journalists Conference. I have heard and read a lot about South Korea, so it…

    Read More »
  • Society

    Handling fake news in Georgia

    By Khatuna Chapichadze Georgian Technical University San Diego State University Professor TBILISI: One of the biggest international media forums, the World Journalists Conference (WJC), organized by the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK), and held annually in a number of interesting cities and other remarkable places of Korea, was held online…

    Read More »
  • People

    Brunei mourns death of Sultan’s son

    BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Prince Abdul Azim, the son of the Sultan of Brunei was buried hours after he died in keeping with the Islamic tradition of not delaying funerals. He was 38. The country’s state broadcaster Radio Television Brunei announced his death on Saturday. Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah’s son, Prince…

    Read More »