Taiwan, the place to be a woman in politics
DPP chair Tsai-Ing wen says in a post that she is "happiest" when she has time to play with her cats, Cookie and A-Tsai. Many of Taiwan's female politicians, including former Vice-President Annette Lu, Kaohsiung City Mayor Chen Chu, and chair of the Kuomintang party Hung Hsiu-chu, rose to powerful positions without having come from a political family. They have largely made it on their own. Women
In Japan’s Slow Economy, Rare Price Rise Prompts Surplus of Remorse (Published 2016)
A teenager in Kawasaki, Japan, eating a Garigari-kun, a popular ice cream bar. The price of the bar was recently raised for the first time in a quarter-century.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times TOKYO — One of the most talked-about television commercials in Japan this year advertises an unusual product: contrition. The ad shows a group of workers and executives from an ice cream company lin
EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo crashed - Hollande
The plane, seen here at Cairo airport in 2014, was flying from Paris overnight An EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, French President Francois Hollande confirmed. The Airbus A320 with 66 people on board disappeared from radar at 02:30 Cairo time (00:30 GMT), soon after leaving Greek airspace. Greece's defence minister says Flight MS804 made "sharp turns" and plun
Cancer Survivor Receives First Penis Transplant in the United States (Published 2016)
transcript Penis Transplant News ConferenceAfter announcing the first successful penis transplant operation in the United States, officials at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston discussed the patient, Thomas Manning, and the surgery with the news media. After announcing the first successful penis transplant operation in the United States, officials at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
結局、選手が活躍すれば東京オリンピックだって盛り上がると思う
はてな界隈だと、東京オリンピックなんてさっさと返上しろというのが意見の主流だけれど、 なんだかんだいって、4年後の夏には、それなりに盛り上がるだろうし、 選手が活躍さえしてくれれば、「やっぱり東京オリンピックをやって良かった」というのが、世論の主流になると思う。 なぜ、そう思うかといえば、長野オリンピックの時のことを思い出すからだ。 長野オリンピックの招致が決定したとき、今回の東京とは比べ物にならないくらい、盛り上がってはいなかった。 1991年のことだから、すでに、バブルは崩壊の兆しが見えていて、 まあ「失われた20年」がそのあとやってくるとは思っていなかったけれど、 不景気の入り口で、あんな土建屋がもうかるだけのプロジェクトやって大丈夫なんかという雰囲気があったし、 そもそも、なぜ長野にオリンピックを呼んだのかといえば、 西武鉄道のグループ総帥、堤義明を中心にした政財界の利権のためだと
Venezuela crisis: How the political situation escalated
Many Venezuelans want to see President Maduro gone from power but he remains in the presidential palace In Venezuela, the government of President Nicolás Maduro and the opposition are engaged in a bitter power struggle. The South American country has been caught in a downward spiral for years with growing political discontent further fuelled by skyrocketing hyperinflation, power cuts, and shortage
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