South Korea's navy and coast guards on Friday carried out a joint maritime exercise against possible terrorist attacks from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), a local broadcaster YTN reported.
As the black centerpiece in the vortex of "#OscarsSoWhite" controversy, host Chris Rock has tried to take on the lack of diversity issue at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night in Hollywood, Los Angeles, but failed miserably.
The story so far: In January, when the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were announced and not a single nonwhite performer was recognized, a lot of people voiced their outrage about the omissions.
At least three people were killed and more than 20 others injured when an employee went on a shooting spree on Thursday in the midwestern U.S. state of Kansas, local authorities said.
This is the portrait of an “epidemic of invisibility” in Hollywood described by researchers in a study released on Monday of more than 400 movies and scripted television series from 2014 and 2015.
“For any democracy to thrive, its media must act as watchdog – holding leaders accountable for their words and deeds. And, yes, take a bite if they fail to deliver,” Michael J. Jordan, a U.S. foreign correspondent wrote in one piece of his news article titled” The Toothless Watchdog: Why Election Coverage Matters.”
Confidence among South Korean consumers over economic situation weakened to the lowest in six months on worries about economic slowdown in China, South Korea's largest trading partner, central bank data showed Wednesday.
The number of unsold apartments in South Korea posted the fastest monthly increase in November 2015, indicating a home glut amid rising concerns about the property market slump, a government report showed Wednesday.
German authorities said on Monday that nearly all the suspects in a rash of New Year's Eve violence against women in Cologne had an immigrant background.
Hong Kong Customs Wednesday arrested an incoming female passenger at Hong Kong International Airport and seized about 2.4 kilograms of suspected cocaine with an estimated market value of about 2.56 million Hong Kong dollars (about 0.33 million U.S. dollars).
Chaos Communications Congress, Europe’s largest hacker conference, opened with call to action from Fatuma Musa Afrah: ‘Things are solved by human beings’
A Russian warship fired warning shots to avert a collision with a Turkish fishing boat in the Aegean Sea on Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Mandopop queen Stefanie Sun says English-speaking musicians here must be one step ahead of the Western market to succeed
Aussie politicians warned not to "play into hands of extremists" Australian political leaders, including former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, have been warned to put aside domestic political agendas when discussing the war in the Middle East, for fear it "plays into jihadi hands."
Bashang, about three hours' drive northeast of Beijing, may draw lots of day tripping Beijingers in summer and autumn but that hasn't brought much income to locals.
Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), said Thursday he “expects next year’s wage hike to exceed this year’s” at companies with good performance.
The growing popularity of personal stories written by authors from Taiwan is prompting greater understanding on both sides of the Straits, as Peng Yining reports.
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