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Culture
Role of artificial intelligence in newsroom management spotlighted at Kazan workshop
KAZAN: A “New Tools for Newsrooms: Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Technologies” workshop was held by the Union of News Agencies of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (UNA) in cooperation with the Russian agency “Sputnik” and the “Tatmedia” news agency in Tatarstan. The workshop held within the…
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Politics
Asia Reporters: “Incheon is ideal venue for achieving APEC’s three major goals”
By Lee Joo-hyung INCHEON: The host city for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit will be decided next month, in June. While Incheon Metropolitan City, Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and Jeju Special Self-Governing Province have announced their intention to host this summit in Korea, each local government is busy with last-minute…
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Culture
Bahrain Summit logo: Perfect representation of outstanding local assets
MANAMA: The “Bahrain Summit” logo is a perfect representation of some of Bahrain’s outstanding symbols. It embodies the Bahraini identity whose roots are connected to its deep Arab dimension. The golden logo circle features the emblem of the Arab League with underneath the inscription, in red, “The Thirty-Third Ordinary Summit…
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Politics
Arab Summit in Bahrain: Exceptional in its place, timing and agenda
MANAMA: The Arab Summit to be held on Thursday in Bahrain will be exceptional in its place, timing and agenda, a senior Bahraini official has said. The 33rd Arab Summit will be held over one day and will bring the leaders of the 22 Arab countries members of the Arab…
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Society
WJC2024 conference: Should journalists welcome Artificial Intelligence, fear it, or both?
By Habib Toumi SEOUL: The second conference of the World Journalists Conference (WJC2024) in the Korean capital Seoul piqued my interest. It was a far cry from the first one that addressed “The Role of the Media in War Journalism and World Peace”, but failed to include any speaker from the…
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Society
Special Korean Zhenped in Incheon – KIWU
By Kuban Andymen INCHEON – BISHKEK: Before gaining independence in Kyrgyzstan, the only Women’s Pedagogical Institute named after Mayakovsky successfully operated in the country, briefly known as Zhenped. The institute graduated many female pedagogical specialists, and no one was particularly surprised by this. At that time, all educational institutions were…
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Politics
Incheon, City of International Peace, grand ambitions
By Habib Toumi INCHEON: Incheon Metropolitan City is set to become an international meeting point for people from across the world, its vice mayor has said. “Featuring the world’s best hub, Incheon International Airport, Incheon Part that serves as a logistics hub for Northeast Asia, , Incheon is South Korea’s…
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Culture
Korea’s Miracle OK Language School answers foreign workers’ prayers
By Habib Toumi Pocheon City, South Korea: In small groups of six and eight, the students sat avidly around a white table, taking in every word uttered by their teacher while pointing to white board filled with numbers and letters. The lesson on the proper use of Korean numbers was…
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Society
Kyung-In Women’s University: Dedication to excellence is palpable
By Habib Toumi KYUNG-IN, KOREA: University campuses are usually noisily loud. The mobiles, the music, the brouhaha when sharing jokes, the uproar in the neighborhood … However, the campus of Kyung-In Women’s University (KIWU) is comfortably quiet and does not generate any noisy disturbance to the environment. Serene, peaceful and…
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Politics
DMZ: The zone where the 1950-1953 Korean War never ended
By Habib Toumi SEOUL: As she was looking into North Korea from the Dora Observatory at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Khadija was enveloped by an eerie feeling that mixed dramatic history with people’s tragedies without any regard for peace or compassion. She has never been so close to a highly…
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