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Society
Korean professor to release application to raise awareness on sex slaves
Seo Kyong Dok, South Korean professor at Sungshin’s Women University, said of his plans to release a smart phone application to raise awareness on the issue of Japanese sexual salvation during the war. In his statement to Yonhap News Agency he said that the application will include pictures, video files, as…
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West Asia
Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre announces 10 innovative space technologies
The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) announced 10 new innovative space technologies and satellite applications, distributed among KhalifaSat, Nayif-1, SAFIY and “Semi-Supervised classification tool for DubaiSat-2 multispectral images”. Most of the innovative technologies were designed to meet the needs and requirements of their users, inside and outside the UAE.…
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IT-Science
Samsung releases low-budget smartphone
The Korean giant, Samsung, is planning to release a new low-budget smartphone in South Korea during this month, meeting the demands of cheap smartphones. According to company sources, KT, which is the second smartphones operator in South Korea is going to be the exclusive distribute of this new phone “Galaxy J7” which…
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West Asia
Quality prototypes propel Algerian and Syrian innovators on TV
Algeria’s Mourad Mohamed Benosman and Syria’s Yaman Abou Jieb overtook their fellow innovators in a lively Stars of Science elimination episode on MBC4, securing their tickets to the next stage of the pan-Arab “edutainment reality” TV program. After a tough critique from the expert jury, Jordan’s Maymoona Ayesh and Lebanon’s…
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IT-Science
Science ministers of ASEAN countries meet in Daejeon
On Tuesday 20th October, a meeting between science ministers in South Korea, Japan and China and ASEAN countries was held in Daejeon to discuss how to narrow the developmental gap between their countries. The meeting was held in sync with (OCED) conference for science and technology. During the meeting, Korea…
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West Asia
Twelve Arab innovators become science stars on TV
Twelve of the Arab world’s most promising and remarkable young innovators beat thousands of rival applicants to be selected as candidates on the seventh season of Stars of Science, Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development ‘s (QF) “edutainment reality” TV program on MBC4. This selection concludes the casting…
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West Asia
Aziz Sancar, Turkey’s first Nobel in science
In its second Nobel Prize win, Turkey secured its first Nobel in science, most specifically, chemistry, with Aziz Sancar. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Sancar, 69 years, holds both American and Turkish citizenship, has…
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IT-Science
Obama invites arrested Muslim schoolboy to White House
A Muslim Texan, Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested in his school after a teacher mistook his homemade digital clock for a bomb which he made for his engineering class. The incident triggered accusations of Islamophobia in an online backlash. Interestingly, US President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited Ahmed to the…
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West Asia
Korea’s LG open their own store in Jordan
LG Electronics, one of Korea’s pioneering companies, has been making extensive efforts to expand in the Middle Eastern market, opening a number of branches for heir luxury goods. One of their latest venues is the opening of their branch in Jordan’s capital, in Makka street, which is famous for its…
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South East Asia
Fake Apple iPhones factory raided in China
A factory in China has been raided which allegedly made up to 41,000 fake Apple iPhones. Nine arrests have been made. The operation reportedly involved hundreds of workers who repackaged second hand smartphone parts as new iPhones for export, worth 120m Yuan ($19m). The factory, initially discovered in May, was…
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