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Apr 23, 2018 National

[Graphic News] Number of farmers continues to fall in S. Korea

According to the data compiled by Statistics Korea, the number of farmers also dropped 3 percent on-year to 2.42 million. Households engaging in the farming business totaled 1.04 million last year...

[Graphic News] Number of births outside marriage on rise in EU

The rate of births outside marriage is on the rise in all EU member states to a greater or lesser extent, with the highest one recorded in France (59.7 percent in 2016) and the lowest in Greece (9.4...

Apr 22, 2018
World
[Graphic News] Bill Gates, Angelina Jolie named most admired people

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie have been named the world's most admired people in a YouGov survey. Philanthropist Gates and humanitarian Jolie hav...

Apr 19, 2018
World
[Graphic News] Samsung 5th-most admired firm in Canada

Samsung Electronics was named the fifth-most admired firm in Canada, an industry tracker said, recovering its reputation tainted by the suspended production of the Galaxy Note 7 in 2015. According...

Apr 18, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] Syria's chemical weapons

Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons went to Syria last week to try to determine whether banned toxins were used in an attack on a rebel enclave on April 7. On ...

Apr 17, 2018
World
[Graphic News] Western strikes in Syria

The United States, Britain and France launched strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime early Saturday in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack after mulling military actio...

Apr 16, 2018
World
[Graphic News] China's military ranks third strongest, India in fourth

China's military ranked as the most powerful in Asia, with eight other on the continent in the top 20: Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan and Thailand. The cited index examined...

Apr 15, 2018
World
[Graphic News] Which government is the most transparent in Asia?

Japan has the most open government system in Asia, according to the recently released World Justice Project. The report measures whether a country’s basic laws and information on legal rights are pu...

Apr 12, 2018
World
[Graphic News] Moroccans top list of recipients of EU citizenship

Moroccans ranked as the top nationals who have obtained the nationality of a European country, followed by Albanians and Indians, according to Eurostat data. A total of 820 people from North Korea...

Apr 11, 2018
World
[Graphic News] Facebook scandal affected up to 87m users

Several million Facebook users in the EU who installed the Cambridge Analytica app and their friends may have been affected by the data leak involving the political consultancy. Facebook said last...

Apr 10, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] OPCW: Ridding the world of chemical weapons

Russia lost a bid last week at the global chemical weapons watchdog to launch a joint probe with Britain into the spy poisoning scandal. It has sought to press its case at the highest level, calling...

Apr 9, 2018
World
[Graphic News] US-China trade fight escalates over tariffs

Tit-for-tat trade penalties have escalated between the world’s two-largest economies as they inch closer to the brink of a damaging international economic conflict. The Trump administration on Wed...

Apr 8, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] Samsung overtakes IBM for top spot in US patent portfolio

Samsung Electronics has overtaken IBM as the holder of the most US patents as of the start of this year, data showed. The South Korean tech firm held 75,596 US patents, outdoing No. 2 IBM by nearl...

Apr 5, 2018
World Business
[Graphic News] Vienna remains world's most livable city

Austrian capital Vienna once again defended its position as the city offering the best quality of life in the world, while Iraqi capital Baghdad remained the worst, in an annual survey from consulti...

Apr 4, 2018
World
[Graphic News] Number of Facebook users worldwide rises

The number of active Facebook users worldwide rose from the fourth quarter of 2015 to the fourth quarter of 2017. Around 1.4 billion users visited the social network daily in the fourth quarter of...

Apr 3, 2018
World Business

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