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Culture
A meaningful illustration of the Magazine N
Bilal Bassal / Illustrator – Journalist Everyone is upset here, but as I’m walking now in Paris’ streets, I mentioned that the people forget quickly and want to return to their normal life as soon as possible. I knew that experience in Beirut when you believe that the death is not…
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East Asia
To recall 1988 Seoul Olympics
By Park Moo-jong – The Korea Times Finally, it’s time for the Olympics to beat the heat of this scorching summer. The 2016 Summer Olympics, ironically during the winter season of the host city of Rio de Janeiro, will kick off its 17-day run at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning (Korean…
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East Asia
Apathy about North Korea
Casey Lartigue Jr. – The Korea Times I recently attended a United Nations conference in Seoul at which a couple of distinguished speakers asked: Why aren’t more of the almost 30,000 North Korean refugees directly involved in activism against North Korea? A few others at the conference asked: Why don’t…
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East Asia
In Search of Korean values
Michael Breen – The Korea Times In its research last year to develop the new national brand ― Creative Korea ― the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism came up with three key national values: creativity, passion and harmony. But are these really the core values of Korea? Harmony could…
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South East Asia
Bangladeshi News Agency Reports The AsiaN News
The Bangladeshi news agency Narayanganj has reported The AsiaN`s publication, titled “The Female Mayors in Asian Countries” which includes 20 different female mayor’s name. The Narayanganj has quoted the section about successful female mayor Selina Hayat Ivy. Ivy is a Bangladeshi politician, a physician and current city mayor of Narayanganj.…
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East Asia
The Female Mayors of Asian Countries
Virginia Raggi has been selected as Rome’s first female mayor. Raggi, a lawyer with a three-year stint as a city councilwoman, took 67.2% of the vote and she promised to work to bring “legality and transparency” to Rome’s City Hall. According to researches, currently, fewer than 5% of the world’s…
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Central Asia
40% of Russians Struggle to Have Food and Clothes
More than 40 percent of Russian families struggle to find the money to buy food or clothes, a study by Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE) revealed on July 27. The Moscow Times reported that the forty-one percent of Russians told researchers that they lacked money for food and clothes,…
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East Asia
Korea to start new healthcare project in Uzbekistan
Director of KOICA Uzbekistan Office Im Jeong Hee and the Deputy Minister of Health of Uzbekistan Laziz Tuychiev have signed a protocol on the implementation of a new project “Creation of a center of excellence of medical personnel of the Children’s Diversified Medical Center and the 4th-level highly specialized multidisciplinary…
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West Asia
Leading Turkish historian Halil İnalcık dies at age 100
Prof. Halil İnalcık dubbed as ‘the professor of professors’, one of the most respected historians in Turkey, passed away Monday in Ankara at 100-years-old, Daily Sabah reports. Early life and education İnalcık was born on Sept. 7, 1916, in Istanbul. His father Seyit Osman Nuri Bey and his mother Ayşe…
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West Asia
Iran destroys 100,000 ‘depraving’ satellite dishes
Iranian authorities have destroyed 100,000 satellite dishes and receivers as part of a widespread crackdown against illegal devices they say “deviate morality and culture”, Al Jazeera reports. General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the head of Iran’s Basij militia, oversaw the destruction ceremony in Tehran on July 24 and warned of the…
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