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Society
Are privileges for elite athletes necessary evil?
This is the first in a series of articles aimed at helping determine whether the current system of rewarding outstanding athletes with privileges is still relevant or needs changing. — ED. Does Korea need to keep the current “old” system of awarding outstanding athletes with exemptions from mandatory military services…
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Mubarak given life sentence for killing protesters
The Cairo criminal court has sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak to life imprisonment on Saturday (June 2) as he was declared guilty for deaths of protesters during an uprising in January 2011. Mubarak has been under arrest at the International Medical Center near Cairo. Mubarak, his two sons, former Interior…
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NK’s economic reliance on China increases
North Korea’s trade dependence on China grew by leaps and bounds last year while economic relations with South Korea remain frozen, according to a report released Friday by Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA). In 2011, 89.1 percent of Pyongyang’s total external trade came from its neighboring economic powerhouse China recording…
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Society
More grownup children live with parents
Koreans once held that when children became adults, they supported their parents. However, this is no longer the general trend, with more aging parents having to support adult sons and daughters, according to a Seoul City report Friday. The number of people in their 30s or 40s still living at…
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Column
A road vendor’s sleeping infant
Watermelon is the fruit of summer season and is grown in abundance in Pakistan especially along both sides of River Indus. A watermelon weighs three to six kilogram or eight kilograms. The watermelon, at the start of season, is sold for Pakistani rupees.50 (around half a dollar) that declines to…
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Politics
Turkish PM calls world attention to massacred Syrian children
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday called on the world to pay heed to the desperation of families whose children were massacred in Syria. Speaking at a summit of the Alliance of Civilizations, a forum promoting understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds, days after more than 100…
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East Asia
Chinese Kungfu Shown In Israeli Festival
Performers from China Poly Agency perform “Kungfu Revelations: 9 scrolls” at Jerusalem Theater during Israel Festival on May 31, 2012. The Israel Festival was founded in 1961 as a summer music festival taking place in the ancient Roman theatre in Caesarea and was adopted in 1982 as Israeli national festival.…
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World
People In Istanbul Hang Effigy of Assad In Show Of Anger
People, displaying Turkish, Syrian and Palestinian flags, carry an effigy of Syrian leader Bashar Assad during a rally in Istanbul, Turkey, late Thursday, May 31, 2012. Addressing a summit of the Alliance of Civilizations, a forum promoting understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on…
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South East Asia
Haunting War Memories Of A Vietnamese Woman
In this June 8, 1972 file photo, crying children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places as South Vietnamese forces from the 25th Division walk behind them. A South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped…
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Column
Campaign goes on to present panda to children in northeast Japan
My father has started to attend a class in a lifelong learning centre and the name of the class is ‘Class Crane’. He said, “Mr Kim next door is a student of Class Turtle.” His little grandson added, “I’m in the Class Panda.” Oh my, what are those names! East…
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