SEBA Azerbaijan-Korean Cultural Exchange Association has realized another project in the Korean city of Seoul. The city hosted the opening of the international book fair Read the Culture, Read the World organized by the Korean Publishers Association on October 7. A total of 16 countries including Azerbaijan attend the book fair at COEX Centre. Sixty seven…
Category: Governance
Raila urges Korean unification, offers to mediate (Daily Nation (Kenya))
Cord leader Raila Odinga has called for the unification of the South and the North Korea because it will will give them a stronger voice and presence in international politics. In a speech delivered to a global forum in the South Korean capital Seoul on Thursday, Mr Odinga argued both the North and South have a…
Newsweek Adds Three Staffers, Including Executive Editor of Digital (PR Newswire)
NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Newsweek, a premier weekly news magazine owned by IBT Media, today announced three new staff additions including Kevin Dolak, who joins as Executive Editor of Digital; Seung Lee, who joins as a technology reporter and Helen Russell, who joins as a production manager. Dolak and Russell will be based…
Kim eager to leverage China market with movie (China Daily)
With many South Korean filmmakers moving to neighboring China for a wider and more lucrative market, Kim Ki-duk has become the latest big name to join the flock. Kim, 55, recently announced in Beijing that his first Mandarin movie, Who Is God, is financed by a Chinese film studio and will recruit an all-Chinese cast. With…
Mongolian children study in school built by North Korea 50 years ago (AKIpress Central Asian News Service)
Mongolian children study in school built by North Korea 50 years ago Bishkek (AKIpress) – For more than 50 years, children on the windswept steppes of Mongolia have studied in a school built by a surprising benefactor: North Korea, reports South China Morning Post. An image of the hermit state’s founder Kim Il-Sung hangs in a…
English isn't main language at home for 21 percent in America (The Washington Times)
A whopping 21 percent of U.S. residents now speak a language other than English at home, according to a report being released Tuesday by the Center for Immigration Studies that raises questions about the country’s ability to absorb the influx of immigrants. Although many of those are bilingual, more than 25 million residents say they speak…
Obote's Son Engena On Why No One Deserves to Be Exiled [interview] (allAfrica.com)
BISHOP EDWARD STANLEY ENGENA MAITUM OBOTE is the second born of former two-time Uganda President Apollo Milton Obote. He talked to Capital FM’s Simon Kasyate on the Desert Island Discs programme about life in exile and why he is determined to be the next Ugandan president. Welcome Bishop, to the show. Thank you very much. We…
Germany celebrates 25 years of unity (dpa German Press Agency)
Frankfurt (dpa) – Germans celebrated through the night as they welcomed the 25th anniversary of the reunification of the former East and West German states on Saturday. The highlight of the festivities nationwide is a three-day party in Frankfurt which features an official ceremony in the old Opera House on Saturday at which President Joachim Gauck…
Mnangagwa – Bane of Zim Politics [opinion] (allAfrica.com)
In 1983 a North Korean-trained unit of the Zimbabwe military, the Fifth Brigade, began a campaign against “dissidents” in the southern regions of the Midlands and Matabeleland. During the campaign, an estimated 20 000 civilians died, including women and children. This ghastly Pol Pot-style enterprise, which President Robert Mugabe has admitted as the Zanu PF government’s…
10 Most Murderous Marxist Dictators (The Libertarian Republic)
By Lina Bryce It is against human nature to be controlled; despite this history has seen many tyrants comes to power. It takes a cult of personality to make this a reality, but we should not be so complacent to believe that murderous dictators remain permanently in history. One individual with charisma and the artful work…