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South Korea needs foreign workers, but often fails to protect them
New York Times, Published on 02/03/2024
» POCHEON, South Korea — Samsung phones. Hyundai cars. LG televisions. South Korean exports are available in virtually every corner of the world. But the nation is more dependent than ever before on an import to keep its factories and farms humming: foreign labour.
Gene therapy could curb stray cat problem
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» For all the cats who share our homes as companion animals, there is a vast shadow world of strays -- a sprawling and fast-breeding crowd.
Dutch court orders sperm donor to stop after 550 children
Published on 28/04/2023
» THE HAGUE: Dutch judges on Friday ordered a man suspected of fathering more than 550 children through sperm donations to stop donating, in the latest fertility scandal to shock the Netherlands.
Medical tourism in spotlight after Mexico kidnapping
AFP, Published on 09/03/2023
» WASHINGTON: As reports swirl around the recent kidnapping in Mexico of four Americans, two of whom were killed, one detail has drawn particular attention -- they had crossed the border for a medical procedure.
They even mummified crocodiles
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» At first glance, you may think the picture is of living crocodiles moving stealthily through mud. But the animals are mummies, possibly dead for more than 2,500 years and preserved in a ritual that likely honoured Sobek, a fertility deity worshipped in ancient Egypt.
Google to delete user location history on US abortion clinic visits
AFP, Published on 02/07/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO - Google announced Friday it would delete users' location history when they visit abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters and other places where privacy is sought.
S. Korea to employ AI and big data to fight world’s lowest fertility rate
Published on 20/10/2021
» SEOUL: South Korea is employing artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technologies in hopes to boost stubbornly low birth rate in zero range despite decades of colossal spending and slow the thinning in the population.
'There was no trust': Apartheid ghosts stalk S.Africa's vaccine fears
AFP, Published on 05/02/2021
» JOHANNESBURG - At the very mention of the word "vaccine", 82-year-old Josefine Hlomuka vehemently shook her head, her face clouding with worry as she gazed at the storm bearing down on her home in the Johannesburg township of Soweto.
Foreigners flock to Gibraltar to wed during pandemic
AFP, Published on 28/11/2020
» GIBRALTAR - Gibraltar was never on Bruno Miani's list of places to visit -- but that all changed when the pandemic upended his plans to marry his girlfriend in Dublin where they live.
China's LGBT couples 'wed' online as gay marriage push stalls
AFP, Published on 29/06/2020
» BEIJING: Engaged for over three years, Guo and Zhu are fed up waiting for Chinese lawmakers to approve same-sex marriage -- instead, they have turned online to gain recognition for their relationship.