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East Asia
POSCO industrial accident pollutes soil and water; poisons residents
By Joel Lee, Jin Yong-jun An industrial accident by a South Korean steel-making company that leaked hazardous chemicals into the soil and underwater was found to have infected residents living nearby. Environmental watchdogs are demanding the company to properly carry decontamination works and cover medical check-ups. Large volumes of phenol,…
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East Asia
Football connects world in Brazil
Brazil is a passionate place for football. “Vai Japan! Japan! Japan!” That is the phrase that people, from kids to the elderly, used in Brazil to cheer my team on the minute they found me walking with the Japanese football jersey on in town. We did not know each other’s…
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East Asia
[AJA Global Report] Movie Star Jackie Chan’s son detained in Beijing over drugs
The son of movie star Jackie Chan, Jaycee Chan, also known as Fang Zuming, and an award-winning Taiwanese actor, Ko Chen-tung, were detained by Beijing police for drug-related offences. Over 100 grams of marijuana were found and both Chan and Ko confessed to using drugs. The police put Chan under…
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Central Asia
[AJA Global Report] Russian become easily travel to Korea by Visa-free entry
Russia and Korea getting closer Korea became closer to Russian from this year – visa-free entry allows a great number of people easily travel between these countries. Russians were free to visit Jeju island before, but now they could travel all over South Korea and Koreans, in turn, could visit…
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The next visit of Pope Francis
In 2005, North Korea’s state-run media announced Pope John Paul’s death April 5, three days after it occurred. UCA News reported that the Korean Catholics’ Association sent a condolence message to the Vatican, and a memorial Mass for the late Pope was held in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, drew…
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East Asia
Special Prize to a united effort to help SSangyong Motor workers
The Citizens of Sonjabgo’s Yellow Envelope Campaign Mrs. Bae Chun-Hwan and 25,403 others (as of May 12, 2014) Early this year, a woman sent a letter to a current-affairs magazine. She stated that she began writing after reading an article about the Supreme Court’s verdict in a damage suit filed…
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West Asia
Farming Words
As a young boy, I used to visit my grandfather’s village. There, my stay was a mixture of enjoying nature and tracing folk stories. I still remember the magical green carpet of fields, where everything flying over was white; the flocks of cotton travelling the pages of the blue sky’s…
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East Asia
What are four key features of woman’s attitude in the professional context?
It is crucial to identify the cultural and behavioral impediments that constrain woman’s genuine and steady access to leading positions in Morocco. From the macro perspective, the absence of genuine commitment to the adopted legal provisions, the fragmentation of involved institutions and their weak capacity along with the persistence of…
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East Asia
Gutenberg’s invention of metal movable type from Korea?
The Development of a Piece of Faction – <Gutenberg’s Joseon> Park Hyun-chan / Writer, CEO of StoryLogic What incident in the last thousand years impacted humanity the most? It depends, but the U.S. magazine <Life> selected the invention of metal movable type as the most influential incident of the history…
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Society
Women’s access to managerial positions in Morocco
Understanding the structural impediments Genuine and steady progress is partially constrained by the persistence of important structural impediments Morocco enjoys currently quite advanced legal framework regarding women rights. Not only the country has ratified the main United Nations conventions related to the protection and the promotion of women rights, but…
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