• Lifestyle

    Syrian artist depicts women’s revolutionary outlook

    *Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment of six-part stories about six Arab women  artists devoting themselves to creating different style of art and innovating their methods of expression for “revolutionary” change.  Hind Adnan The Forgotten Look Revolution  Art is based on reconstruction. Its ingredients are recreated through a magic machine invented by art and these create…

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    Relations among Koreas and China

    The trade relations between China and the two Koreas have been changing dramatically in recent years. It would be interesting to figure out how the changing trade relations would affect the future of the relation between South Korea and North Korea. This is the issue that I will be addressing…

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    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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    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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  • Corruption and growth

    Transparency to help tackle unemployment Korea was placed 43rd of 183 countries in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI), the world’s largest anti-corruption watchdog, late last year. The ranking represented a drop of four notches from that of a year ago with the index being 5.4…

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    Chidren of sex workers dream of bright future

    *Editor’s note: This is a follow-up of the earlier story by the writer about the children of prostitutes working at the Kandapara brothel in Bangladesh, who are being sheltered and educated at a nearby children’s home.  Tales of deprived children of Quisbari Payel , a ten-year-old  girl, is crying inside while playing  the…

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  • Dissolution of assembly throws Nepal into chaos

    KATHMANDU – Tiny Himalayan country Nepal has plunged into another round of political crisis following the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly Sunday midnight (May 29).  The first ever CA elected originally for two years in 2008 to draft a new constitution expired four years after without promulgating the new constitution. Prime…

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    Moroccan artist conveys her message through abstract works

    *Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of six-part stories about six Arab women  artists devoting themselves to creating different style of art and innovating their methods of expression for “revolutionary” change.  Messages of  peace, love, sympathy, modesty and generosity Peace,  love, sympathy, modesty, and generosity: Five words that make up the message of Moroccan artist Malika…

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  • Xenophobia and law

    Anti-racism act needed to prevent social conflicts Is Korea a xenophobic country? The answer is yes and no. Depending on how we look at what’s going on here, the answer could be either. Yet what is clear is that a huge influx of migrant workers, immigrant wives and North Korean…

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    Summer flowers in full bloom in Bangladesh

     Shonalu  Krishnochura Lalshonalu Kathgolap Naglingam Amid the scorching heat, power outage and political violence during this summer, the nature blossoms in colours surpassing the brick, stone and all the junks in urban environment of the capital Dhaka in Bangladesh. The busy urban people might have no time to look at…

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