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East Asia
84% of women victimized by online hate speech in Korea
Eighty-four percent of women have come across hate speech against women online, according to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). According to an NHRC report on hate speech and measures to prevent it, the rate was even higher among sexual minorities, with 95 percent answering they were confronted with hate…
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Deputy IT and Communications Minister of Uzbekistan from South Korea completes his mission
It was something very unusual for Uzbekistan when in 2013 a group of South Korean scholars headed by the consultant on ICT Kim Nam Seok began its activity at the Uzbek State Committee for Communication, Information and Telecommunication Technologies. Unusual was not the fact of attracting foreign specialists but the…
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History is full of political assassinations
Pakistan is perhaps one of the few nations of the world where the people take a keen interest in the developments taking around the world. The reports about the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-eun, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on February 13 were also…
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74 new airports to be completed by 2020 in China
China is aiming to have 74 more civil transport airports by 2020, according to a report released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The report provides the blueprint and sets the goals for the development of China’s civil aviation industry during the country’s 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) period,…
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“Youth” Exhibition
D museum is presenting its first exhibition of this year and the concept is “Youth”. This exhibition includes art, fashion, music as well as including other things. This “Youth” exhibition which has opened on the 9th of February at Hannam-dong’s D Museum deals includes according to “Timeout” sociological and philosophical…
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Le Corbusier Exhibition
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier is a Swiss-French modern architect. Seoul Arts Center is presenting his largest exhibition until March 26th, 2017, for the first time in Korea. The exhibition contains his work as architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and a photographer. Le Corbusier is a worldwide known…
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Museums in Seoul
There are plenty things to do in Seoul and visiting museum here is a must! Down below you will see some of my favorite museums in Seoul. Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, was opened by South Korea’s Daelim Group in 2002, and has its partner institutions, which are D-museum and D…
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Cambodian media joins the world counterpart for Kim Jong-un’s half-brother’s murder
Like other foreign media outlets around the globe, the Cambodian both offline and online media run their international stories on the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean President Kim Jong-un’s haft-brother, on the Valentine’s Day of 14 February in Malaysia Airport. Since the Kingdom has diplomatic relations with both North…
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Georgia strengthens Silk Road economic links
On 16 January 2017 Georgian Economy Minister Giorgi Gakharia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on “Strengthening the New Silk Road Initiative” with Zhang Yuzhou, CEO of CEFC China Energy Company Limited. The corporation has a business interest in energy and financial services and intends to purchase 75 percent of…
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New developments in Kim Jong-Nam murder case
Wednesday 15th, February, 2017 (10:30 pm South Korea) Currently, the body of Kim Jong-eun’s estranged brother, Kim Jong-nam, is being examined for an autopsy to decipher the cause of death and motive for murder. This report comes mere hours after multiple reports that a body had been found at an…
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