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    Bangladesh needs qualified teachers in IT sector

    Information and communication technology (ICT) has ushered in a new opportunity for the educated womenfolk inBangladesh. The new technology of the information age has not only created opportunities for the women in job outside, but also helped them earn through outsourcing and freelancing in the IT sector. “The ICT is…

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  • Getting over Roh

    Realize late leader’s goals but in different ways Three years ago yesterday, former President Roh Moo-hyun leapt to his death, taking all controversies and personal frustrations with him.  This is not a short period, considering even in the extremely ceremonious Joseon Kingdom, the official mourning period for a deceased monarch…

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  • East Asia

    [China Now] China starts to have interest in comfort women

    A Chinese internet media Sohu Cyber (www.sohu.com) reported about an elderly Korean woman  living at Kangmiao district, Angui province in central China, for more than 50 years. She was learned to have forcibly brought to China as a comfort woman by Japanese imperial army during the World War II, it said. According to the media, she…

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  • Column

    We deserve better FM

    Yes, I am suggesting our present foreign minister be replaced with somebody who takes charge and vitalizes our foreign policy. Of course, it would be only natural to give Kim Sung-hwan a chance to better get on with his job but that appears to be a tall order for the…

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  • Column

    The illogic of China’s North Korea policy

    Discussions in Beijing about North Korea are always frustrating. It’s not so much due to the sharp divergence in U.S. and Chinese thinking about how to deal with Pyongyang; the two sides differ on many issues. No, the real problem, from our perspective, is the illogic of the Chinese position.…

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  • Column

    Strike called by ethnic communities goes violent

    KATHMANDU — Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), the umbrella organization of Nepal’s journalists, have expressed its serious concerns about the manhandling of the journalists, vandalizing of their vehicles misbehaviors meted out against them on the first and second days of the three-day general strike called by the Nepal Federation of…

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  • Column

    Lebanese painter looks for lost Utopia

    *Editor’s note: This is the third 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. Artist Fatima Alhajj stands in the heart of a triangle whose three academic sides are the universities of Beirut, Moscow and Paris, where she specialized…

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  • Column

    Tasting Taiwanese cuisine

    I was lucky to be invited a few days ago to a cuisine table set by Taiwanese twin-brother chefs. Regrettably it was just a try-a-sample occasion, not for eating our bellyful. The hard-to-miss brief feast was arranged at a Chinese restaurant in downtown Seoul. It was a special event prepared…

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  • Column

    Imprisonment of 33 opposition leaders heightens tension in Bangladesh

    DHAKA – In  a  quickly  developed  political  tension  in  Bangladesh,   thirty-three key leaders of the  18-party opposition alliances were sent to Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday  promting  another  spell of  violence  and  unrest  in  the country. The  Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court  in  Dhaka  rejected their bail petitions in an arson attack…

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  • Column

    Park Geun-hye’s chance and crisis

    All eyes in the political sector have been fixed on the recent development surrounding the strife-ridden Unified Progressive Party (UPP). Many of the party members are those who fought against the previous dictatorial governments in the 1970s and 1980s. It seems the members especially the mainstreamers belonging to NL (National…

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