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Happy 10th Birthday to OhmyNews
Feb 21, 2010 4:40pm
Web-research pioneer and OhmyNews columnist Ronda Hauben wishes the organization a happy 10th anniversary, and tells how some of her stories for the Web site helped to change her world......
Mixing Gods, Devils, and Geishas
Feb 9, 2010 9:04pm
David Michael Weber reports on his Setsubun holiday. Setsubun (Feb 3rd) is a spring ritual where Japanese drive bad luck, in the form of Oni (devils), out of their homes with a handful of tossed beans.......
Korea's HIV/AIDS Policies, Empty Promises
Jan 31, 2010 5:47pm
In January, both the Republic of Korea and the United States lifted travel bans on HIV-positive people. But does it mean the same thing in both countries? Michael Solis suggests not......
China's First Email Link
Jan 28, 2010 11:51pm
Jay Hauben describes the link between the Internet and China and between the Internet and journalism.......
[Opinion] America Can Be Asias Copilot
Jan 28, 2010 9:29pm
As Washington's hesitates, Pyongyang's nuclear ambition mushrooms, according to Lee Byong-Chol. He asks why Mr. Obama and his foreign policy team find it so hard to achieve North Korea's denuclearization......
Korea's "Comfort Women" Rally at 900th Protest
Jan 13, 2010 5:21pm
Bundled up against a temperature of 3F, survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery, also known as the "comfort women," gathered on Jan. 13 for their 900th weekly protest......
[Opinion] Dictating Nuclear Terms
Jan 12, 2010 6:26pm
In order to transform the nuclear energy debate framed in 1970s into that of the 21st century, there is no reason that the U.S. can't communicate better with South Korea, its major ally in Northeast Asia, says Lee Byong-Chol.......
Why do we study Korea?
Nov 29, 2009 7:46pm
Australians, North Americans, and European's interest in Korea's dynamic present and promising future that stimulates curiosity about its tumultuous history, says Leonid Petrov, writing from Australia.......
Never Underestimate Local Knowledge
Nov 26, 2009 4:44pm
Google's famed front page is optimized for sequential online search. In contrast, the implicit message embedded in the design of Korean portals seems to be that you will surf but spatially, like scanning for banchans on the dinner table.......
Will Hatoyama Ban Whaling?
Nov 18, 2009 6:03pm
The anti-whaling community may have finally won its battle against Japanese whaling for 'scientific research'.......
Young Indian Is Chess Champion
Nov 8, 2009 5:05pm
The win gives the 20-year-old grandmaster Soumya Swaminathan a direct entry to the Women's World Championship.......
Jeju Olle: The Korean Pilgrimage For Hikers
Oct 27, 2009 6:41pm
Citizen reporter Jean K. Min describes how a visit to an ancient trail in Europe inspired a fast-growing tourist destination on Korea's Jeju Island.......
Preserving Cultural Heritage through Korean Embroidery
Oct 25, 2009 12:31am
The author experienced colorful Korean embroidery and the importance of preserving culture, through the Korean Embroidery Exhibition in the National Museum in Jakarta.......
Victims of HIV-related Travel Restrictions in Korea
Oct 20, 2009 8:59pm
In light of Korea's E-2 visa restrictions making HIV-testing mandatory for foreign instructors in Korea, two women have stood up against policies that they believe discriminatory.......
Single Homes, The New Face of Korea
Oct 15, 2009 6:48pm
With the explosion of single homes, Korea is going through a seismic social change that will have more fundamental implication in the future of the country.......
Rising Religiosity Hurting Indian Environment
Oct 12, 2009 12:20am
With more Indians observing some religious festivals that celebrate nature, they are polluting the country's waterways. One government minister has started to stem the tide of religious tourists.......
Infected, Detected, Accepted?
Oct 11, 2009 5:52pm
To this day, Korea remains one of seven countries that uphold the most rigid forms of HIV-related travel restrictions. However a case now before the Constitutional Court may help to change those rules.......
The Real-Time Web? Been There, Done That
Oct 8, 2009 6:13pm
What Koreans need now is not so much be the Web of immediacy, optimized for the instant gratification, as the Web of accountability and credibility, verified over months and years.......
India Shelves Inter-Linking Of Rivers
Oct 8, 2009 7:35am
The plan was to balance water usage across India and ensure that use of river water in one area would not result in droughts.......
China Host To First 'Netizen Day'
Oct 4, 2009 6:30pm
Often there have been events celebrating the origin and development of the Internet but only rarely has there been recognition offered for the netizen, who makes a better world possible through communication.......
Tuvaluan Minister Talks Climate Change
Sep 27, 2009 7:45pm
The small island nation of Tuvalu is on the front lines of the climate change battle. Without change, says a Minister from the country, the whole world may experience Tuvalu's plight.......
[Photos] Japanese Town Dances to Remember the Dead
Sep 23, 2009 1:31am
Obon is the time of year when many Japanese pay their respects to ancestral spirits. It's believed the spirits of the departed return during the 3-day holiday held in mid-August.......
How to Separate North Korea from China
Sep 21, 2009 7:40pm
We have little time left for North Korea's tactics of dragging out the talks while its centrifuges spin. Instead, one citizen reporter thinks we should look to lessen the country's dependence on China.......
Korean Government Sues Activist
Sep 16, 2009 10:33pm
Top Korean NGO activist, Park Won-soon, long-critical of the government, has been charged with libel by the South Korean government.......
[Essay] Focusing On The Big Global Warming Issues
Sep 7, 2009 7:53pm
One citizen's essay on why some focus on the small polluters all around us - like plastic shopping bags and water bottles - and leave the biggest carbon emitters alone.......
[Photos] Japanese Samba Carnival in Tokyo 2009
Sep 6, 2009 10:42pm
The summer ended in Tokyo with the steaminess of humidity, and of sexy samba. The vivid colors and motion of the annual Samba Carnival were captured on film by the author.......
NZ Has Highest Youth Suicide Rate
Sep 3, 2009 10:20pm
A report on the welfare of children in OECD member countries has found New Zealand to have the highest youth suicide rate in the developed world.......
Ghosts from Past Haunt India's BJP
Sep 3, 2009 6:31am
A book on Mohmmad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, by a retired Major of the Indian Army and founding member of the BJP, is now at the center of a raging controversy which threatens to consume India's main opposition party. ......
Nature Reserves and Tourism
Sep 2, 2009 2:04am
India's many nature reserves are under threat from eco-tourism that only pay lip-service to environmental protection.......
Rebooting Television 2.0 On the Web
Aug 30, 2009 4:54pm
Television's unrelenting clout as the custodian of the society's shared conversation is even more pronounced in Korea, despite the full advance of the broadband Internet here for the past 10 years.......
Taming China's 'Yellow Dragon'
Aug 28, 2009 6:47pm
Working with local partners, including the All China Youth Federation, Future Forest recently launched a campaign to plant a billion trees in their Kubuqi Desert project area.......
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