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East Asia
Chinese Aged 60 Or Above Expected To Account For One Third Of Total Population By 2050
Members of an elderly model club rehearse in a park in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province, Feb. 7, 2012. China had 190 million people at or above the age of 60 at the end of last year, according to the China National Committee on Ageing (CNCA). It is…
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South Asia
Some 3 Million Pakistani Girls Fail To Attend Schools
Children attend a class at a public school in Multan, Pakistan, on Oct. 22, 2012. In Pakistan, 5.1 million children are out of school and 63 percent of them are girls, according to a recent UN report. Children attend an English class at a public school in Multan, Pakistan, on…
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South Asia
Despite Threat Of Taliban, Pakistani Girls In Swat Valley Attend Class
In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 photo, A Pakistani student teaches her fellow students in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. The Taliban’s horrific attack on a female teenage activist in this scenic corner of Pakistan’s northwest was the latest in a series of assassination attempts by militant sleeper cells in the…
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West Asia
Time to test Iran
NEW YORK ― Most of the debate about how to address Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear-weapons capacity focuses on two options. The first is to rely on deterrence and live with an Iran that has a small nuclear arsenal or the ability to assemble one with little advance notice. The…
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East Asia
Those ‘guilty’ in innocent lady’s death
A year ago, when I was working at a previous school, a female teacher’s death left me speechless. I was depressed all day at the sad news. How could she die suddenly with her marriage so close? She should have been walking on air, dreaming of a wonderful honeymoon with…
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East Asia
Korean professor uses ‘ondol’ to help Cambodians
BATTAMBANG, Cambodia — The mercury hardly drops below 30 degrees Celsius in the daytime throughout the year in Cambodia, but vegetables and fruits dry slow even under the blazing sun and often go bad. Kim Man-gab, a professor at the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia, wondered why. Kim eventually discovered…
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East Asia
Ancient construction secrets to be shared
Asian master carpenters to meet in Suwon History is well reflected in traditional architecture, giving awe and admiration to its beholders. But few know how the structures were built and who designed and constructed them and how they were preserved until today. In East Asian nations with a long history…
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East Asia
Star gymnast caught in nasty fight between agency, KGA
Korea’s star rhythmic gymnast Son Yeon-jae has found herself caught in a power struggle between her agency, IB Sport, and the Korea Gymnastic Association (KGA). Son, who finished an unprecedented fifth in the London Olympics, saw her long-trusted mentor Kim Ji-hee has tendered her resignation from the KGA. The friction…
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East Asia
GGGI to bridge global green divide
Korea wants to make real contributions to the welfare of the world and is adopting green growth as its theme. Songdo has just been selected to host the secretariat of the United Nations-operated Green Climate Fund (GCF), often compared with the World Bank in the area of sustainable development. Now,…
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East Asia
President’s son to be summoned
An independent counsel plans to summon President Lee Myung-bak’s son for questioning this week over alleged irregularities involving an abandoned plan to build a retirement home for the president. Lee Si-hyung is under suspicion for his involvement in a shady deal last year to purchase land in Naegok-dong, southern Seoul.…
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