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Politics
NATO’s partnerships in Asia: Practical cooperation in response to changes in global security environment?
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol By Habib Toumi SEOUL: Individually Tailored Partnership Programs, cooperation on transnational issues that span regional borders, enhanced military information sharing, a potential new liaison office … the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is rapidly deepening engagement with its Asia…
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Politics
NATO and its partners: An inevitable global security architecture?
Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (Yonhap) By Habib Toumi SEOUL: Amid the recent moves by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to create a series of overlapping and distinctive multilateral and mini-lateral alliances beyond its initial geographical limits, reactions across the globe…
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Education
South Korea’s dynamics with NATO to demonstrate its capabilities as a pivotal state
By Habib Toumi TUNIS: History was made in the June 2022 Madrid North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit with the groundbreaking participation of two far-eastern states, South Korea and Japan, as well as Australia and New Zealand, all partners from the Asia-Pacific region. Within the strategic competition over the core principles…
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Society
No future for newspaper columns, opinions?
By Habib Toumi MANAMA: Sipping an orange juice with friends as the world celebrated World Press Freedom Day, I was confronted with a “negative” attitude that underestimates writing in the realm of nonfiction. “Writing editorials and columns is no longer relevant,” some of them said during our conversation. Their logic is…
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Society
Enhancing the use of social media as an early warning system
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: Social media should finally play an important role in society. As the name suggests, these are social and can take on important tasks as media – being in the service of a healthy society. This is another chance and a challenge as well, to give…
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Column
Stigma caused by isolation in modern society
By Dr. Hassan Humeida – KIEL, GERMANY: We live in a world heavily tainted with stigmatization of all kinds. A high-performance world in which we rarely see or tolerate people with disabilities in public. Even old people who lived under one roof with their relatives in past decades and…
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Column
The poisoning of life by drugs – Direct and indirect effects
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: Today, many people are not satisfied with themselves, their performance or surroundings. Today’s man is in search of the perfect drug that can make everything possible in life. It doesn’t matter what the drug is made of, it can be chemical, herbal, or both in…
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Politics
The booming business of weapons: Winners and losers
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: Weapons are proliferating worldwide and are particularly plentiful among the poorest sections of the population. Weapons can kill people, but cannot feed people, in any way, anywhere. A big business can be made globally with weapons and their trade, buying, selling and exportation. This is…
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East Asia
The Three Musketeers Journey from France to Korea by car
We know that travel has seven benefits, but today we will present to you a meeting with three Musketeers, half of whom are from South Korea and the other half from France. They live a stable life in France, but nostalgia knocked on their doors and they were missing so…
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Education
The Globalisation of Fear
Illustration from imperialglobalexeter By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Ashraf Dali) Asia Journalist Association President CAIRO: The Globalisation of Fear has been the perfect business to trade in our world; name it the fear of pandemics, the fear of wars, the fear of authoritative regimes, the fear of hunger, the fear of censorship,…
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