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June 27, 2022

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When the going gets tough

2021.06.08 17:44

HOW to respond when life throws us curveballs is a frequently asked question. People in Guangdong’s two largest cities have answered one such curveball with action in the past two weeks. After reporting the first signs of a COVID-19 infection resurgence May 21, Shenzhen and Guangzhou heightened their vigilance, launching nucleic acid testing on a scale that the two cities had never seen before. Medical workers in the thousands were dispatched from air-conditioned hospital offices and well-equipped operating rooms to makeshift, often open-air and road-side testing sites at communities, in the
The domestic and foreign tourism industry revive… “Having a trip after vaccination”

2021.06.08 09:50

According to the tourism industry on the 6th, various overseas tour packages are being rolled out in preparation for the expected increase in demands for travel starting this summer. Airlines has reopen the overseas route, and sold airline tickets.This is because domestic and overseas tourism is expected to be recovered in the second half of this year, with the recent surge in vaccinations. As of midnight on the 6th, Korea's primary vaccination rate was 14.8%. The second vaccination rate was 4.4 percent compared to the national population.Korean Public Health authorities have applied “Vaccine
Public safety top concern

2021.05.17 17:55

DURING the May Day holiday, several reports appeared on China’s social media of leopards being sighted roaming in the neighborhoods of Fuyang District, Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province. When local police asked two major zoos in the city if there had been escapes of enclosed animals, both denied any escapes. It was not until late night on May 7 that the Hangzhou Safari Park, under great pressure from outside, acknowledged that three young leopards had escaped from the safari park. Actually, the three leopards escaped on April 19, which means that the management team of the zoo h
New book tells stories behind the scenes

2021.05.12 10:09

NANJING-BASED Japanese documentary director Ryo Takeuchi, who is renowned for his hit documentary series “Nanjing’s Anti-epidemic Scene” and “Long Time No See, Wuhan,” gave a talk and signed autographs for his new book “The Reasons I Live Here” at Shenzhen Book City CBD Store in Futian District on Sunday. The activity was one of the three events held over the weekend mainly organized by the National Book Release Center and Shenzhen Publishing Group. Published by Joint Publishing (H.K.), the book is based on Takeuchi’s long-running documentary series with the same title which depicts s
Unpack the blind box enigma

2021.05.10 17:54

A WORRYING phenomenon sweeping the business world over the last few years is that one lucrative business idea often spawns swarms of imitators irrespective of its social impact, and some even take it too far. The blind box hype is certainly a case in point. Businesses across sectors have been increasingly resorting to the blind box retailing tactic since Pop Mart International Group made a name as well as a fortune out of it. Even more alarmingly, the vast majority of them target the younger generations as their main customers. From toys and stationery to snacks, air tickets and even shoes, a
Gift of Buddha Statue by ICCR to Tongdosa

2021.05.03 08:47

A series of events are being organised in connection with the handing over and unveiling of a statue of Lord Buddha beinggifted by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations to theholy Tongdosa and to the people of the Republic of Korea. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi, is an institution that was established in 1950 with the objective of fostering cultural relations and understanding between India and the world and promotecultural exchanges with other countries and people. The ICCR works closely with the Ministry of External Affairs of India to build on India’s cult
The child-like world of a post-2000s poet

2021.04.29 10:05

When speaking as a guest to share her poems at the “Springtime of the Poet” event in Shenzhen on March 28, 13-year-old Shenzhen poet Jiang Erman told the audience that she started writing poems at the age of 2. She was the youngest poet at the event that night. Born in Shenzhen in 2007, Jiang has been recording her life in poems for a long time. So far, she has created more than 1,000 poems. A short poem she created at the age of 7, “A light burns a hole in the night,” was an overnight hit on the Chinese Internet. “There are several stages of my poetry writing. At the beginning, I wrote
Controversy over Belgian ambassador's wife being accused of an assault

2021.04.27 09:55

Police are demanding the presence of a suspect - the Belgian ambassador's wife accused of assaulting a clothing store employee.On Apr.26, Seoul Police Commissioner Ha-yeon Jang said at a regular meeting in the presence of reporters, "By investigating the facts and securing related data, the wife of Ambassador Peter Rescue was booked as a suspect."They said, "We continue to request the attendance of the suspect through related organizations such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the diplomatic mission." It was added, “The ambassador's post on SNS was a matter of principle, but the clear a
Instagram is the social media app South Koreans spend the most time on, beating Facebook and Twitter

2021.04.23 10:05

The social media app that South Koreans spend the most time on is Instagram, according to one survey. Wiseapp, a service based in South Korea that provides analysis of apps, reported on Apr. 20 that based on its sample survey of South Korean smartphone users aged 10 or older in March this year, the total monthly usage time on Instagram was found to be 5.8 billion minutes. Wiseapp found that 15.66 million people used Instagram for an average total of 6 hours and 11 minutes during the one-month period. Instagram was also found to be the fourth longest-used app by South Koreans after YouTube, Kak

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