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jung moon

Korean families reunite for a few days - 3 views

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  • jung moon on 30 Sep 09
     
    Even though South and North Koreans are 'Koreans', we cannot communicate each other because of many reasons.
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  • Nora Ibrahim on 04 Oct 09
     
    It is amazing isn't it.. so similar yet very different in many ways. Cultural differences due to the distance?
  • xuejiao lin on 05 Oct 09
     
    When I was in Liaoning University of China (it is located in the capital city named Shenyang in Liaoning Province, which adjoins North Koreans), I had a very good friend as my roommate who came from Pyongyang. She was quiet and polite all the time. Meanwhile she even did not like to see those called Roman porn films made by South Korean. She was really different from those many South Korean oversea students in China. Once a time, I asked her to tell me about the confliction between north and south in nowadays. She would say nothing but insisted that "finally, they(the south) will come to us(the north)". Unfortunitlly, she got disappeared at the beginning of the second half semester. Is she a spy?
  • jung moon on 07 Oct 09
     
    From Seoul to Pyongyang (capital city in North Korea) takes only 30 mins I heard. But these families (in the article) couldn't see each other over 50 years....
  • jermaine lee on 07 Oct 09
     
    I knew that South Koreans and North Koreans can't cross the border to visit each other, but i really don't know that they can't even send e-mails. It's such a pity that they don't know when they will see their relatives next time.
  • anonymous on 07 Oct 09
     
    It is reminiscent of families being split in East and West Germany. People would plan trips to Lake Balaton in Hungary to catch up. But that said they could send (censored) letters and make phone calls. If the North Korean Government are so kean to keep these families split up why are they allowing these meetings to take place? The cruelty of it all is hard to comprehend, seeing a loved one never to know if you will see them again.
Yu Cao

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Xinjiang violence: Views from China - 0 views

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ethnics community conflict china

shared by Yu Cao on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • e violence. Information should be released step by step, not at once. If they let people comment freely, anger and hatred will spread quickly and some Han Chinese might want to retaliate against Uighurs.
  • national unity.
  • But these privileges fail to bring true benefits to the Uighur people.
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  • And some of them feel that they have been marginalised. I think this is the fundamental reason for the unrest.
Andrew Ooi

Study Pushes for Net Neutrality, New Journalism Models - Business Center - PC World - 0 views

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internet neutrality Internet

shared by Andrew Ooi on 04 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The U.S. government should advance an "ambitious" plan for universal broadband availability and should ensure that broadband networks are open to all content and applications, according to a new study on public information needs in the digital age.
  • calls for new ideas to share news and information, even as the traditional newspaper industry appears near death.
  • The study calls for the U.S. government to increase support for public media and push ahead with the government transparency and accountability efforts
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  • Big, centralized newspapers and TV stations often don't serve local communities well
  • Andrew Ooi on 04 Oct 09
     
    A study in the US. Death of conventional journalist methods?
Maria D'Amato

Taking on the titans - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...-the-titans-20090904-fbgl.html

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  • WHEN Sarah Morgan, a slenderly framed 10-year-old, came home from primary school with a McDonald's food voucher and a size 16 T-shirt that she had won in a basketball competition, her mother, a health campaigner, was livid.
  • As a three-year-old, Sarah had already associated purple with chocolate.
  • Martin says the standards released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority fail to regulate junk-food promotions on TV or thwart the sophisticated techniques employed by advertisers to create ''pester power'' - when children continually ask their parents for something. By restricting advertising only during low-rating children's programs, Martin says, the authority has ignored evidence that justifies action which could prevent up to one in three children from becoming obese.
jung moon

Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - 'Native English' is losing its power - 0 views

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english' china culture international globalisation communication

shared by jung moon on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Even as the English language continues its meteoric global rise, native speakers such as the North Americans, British and Australians will soon become a rare breed, overwhelmed by the many millions who have started speaking English as their second language.
  • the new lingua franca in what is now often called a flat world.
  • "So the balance of power is changing, and when the second-language speakers adopt English language as their own language or as a second language, they actually take control of it, mix it and use it with their own language, developing new forms, vocabulary and ways and using English."
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  • "China now produces over 20 million English speakers each year, and possibly within a few years, there could be more English speakers in China than in India."
  • Graddol's findings predict that by 2015, there will be about 2 billion people from Asia and non-English-speaking Europe learning English.
  • However, that is not necessarily good news for native English speakers. Instead, it could come as a big blow because "they can no longer look the other way, celebrating the rising hegemony of their language".
  • As English becomes more widely used as a global language, it will become expected that speakers will signal their nationality, and other aspects of their identity, through English, Graddol says. Lack of a native-speaker accent will not be seen, therefore, as a sign of poor competence.
  • jung moon on 07 Oct 09
     
    I hope someday I can speak 'Konglish (Korean English)' in everywhere. :D
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