After taking the United States by storm, the, “Me too,” movement is going international. In this case, the movement is on the rise in South Korea. In one of the, “world’s worst workplaces for women,” there have been a series of accusations from women who were previously sexually assaulted. These accusations have come up against all types of public influencers-… Read more »
Police in Thailand announced Tuesday that they confiscated an estimated $54 million worth of methamphetamine in one of their biggest-ever drug seizures and arrested 11 people in recent days as illegal drug cases surge in the country. They said the seizure took place Monday night in the northern province of Chiang Rai on a road by the Mekong River, the… Read more »
While slower to emerge than in the U.S., the #MeToo movement is reverberating quickly in South Korea where a flurry of headline-grabbing accusations have ignited calls for overhauling one of the world’s worst workplaces for women. A series of high-profile sexual assault and harassment allegations against some of Korea’s most prominent politicians, actors and professors in the past two months… Read more »
Ambassadors and representatives of 28 countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa and elsewhere gathered on Wednesday at the Colombian Embassy in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, to promote awareness of the destructive consequences of landmines and other explosive remnants of war. April 4 was designated International Mine Awareness Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005. Since 2011, a Colombian NGO… Read more »
Beijing (AFP) – A tearful reunion between parents and their missing daughter after an agonising 24-year search has put a spotlight on the vexed issue of child trafficking and disappearances in China. Wang Mingqing and his wife Liu Dengying, from southwest Sichuan province, lost their three-year-old daughter in 1994 when she vanished after being momentarily left alone at the family’s… Read more »
A US Carrier just made its first visit to Vietnam since the Vietnam war, and Beijing officials are not happy about it. According to an editorial, the visit of USS Carl Vinson will not stir up trouble with China, but rather just waste the US’ money. Although officials in China are reasonably upset, there is no reason for China to… Read more »
BEIJING — Beijing is unhappy with the first visit by a U.S. aircraft carrier to a Vietnamese port since the Vietnam War and is monitoring developments, a Communist Party newspaper said Wednesday. However, the Global Times said the USS Carl Vinson’s visit was unlikely to alter the balance of power in the South China Sea, which China claims virtually in… Read more »
Perth family has found the world’s oldest known message in a bottle, almost 132 years after it was thrown into the sea, Australian experts say. Tonya Illman picked up the bottle while going for a walk around sand dunes on a remote beach in West Australia. Her husband Kym Illman told the BBC they found some paper in the bottle… Read more »
Eruptions continued Wednesday at Shinmoedake in the Kirishima mountain range straddling Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the smoke rose about 3,000 meters above the crater at around 6:15 a.m. on the day. The agency issued a warning of volcanic rocks and pyroclastic flows for areas within three kilometers of the crater. The agency said a… Read more »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An economist who believes that Chinese goods are literally poisoning Americans, advocates ending Washington’s “One China” policy and says trade deals have weakened the United States economically with the connivance of U.S. business has emerged as the big winner from renewed turmoil in the White House. While Peter Navarro says he is not in the running to… Read more »