Why South Korea has been so quick to adopt ‘global minimum tax’
Under the minimum tax system, multinational companies making over 750 million euros ($812.3 million) in annual sales must pay at least 15 percent in taxes on their profits in each…
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Can discarded oyster shells help shape a greener future for Singapore?
Ms Yukie Yokoyama, 27, an ecologist at Dutch environment and engineering consultancy Witteveen+Bos, and her team created Singapore’s first artificial oyster reef near the jetty…
Where does Korea stand on assisted death?
While South Korea criminalises any form of assisted dying, at least 204 South Koreans, as of April 2023, have obtained membership for assisted dying facilities in Switzerland.
The roses of ‘the village of roses’
A small village on the banks of the Turag river in Savar, rejoices as locals celebrate their most awaited harvest of the year with the arrival of spring and Valentine's Day.
‘Chemyeon’: the role of ‘face’ in shaping Korea’s cultural dynamics
"Koreans assess a person’s success or failure based on how important they look on the surface, rather than their inner side," said an emeritus professor of psychology at Korea…
Valentine’s Day meets Ash Wednesday: Navigating love amid penance
On the one hand, February 14 is awash with the commerce of romance—flowers, chocolates, and grand gestures fueling a trade boom. On the other, Ash Wednesday ushers in a period…
PUV modernization: Filipino jeepneys out, China imports in
Even with the government stating that cooperatives would decide which brand to get, its words were still not enough to erase fears about the modernization program, which, the…
Beijing empties out as migrants head home for first ‘real’ CNY after Covid-19 pandemic
The world’s largest annual human migration, China’s yearly Chinese New Year travel rush, called chunyun, is expected to break records in 2024. The number of trips over the…
Sukhothai man’s 800km wheelchair trek for disability pay sparks government action
Monthon, 48, recounted that he had fallen from a building while working on a construction site in Bangkok in 2014 and returned to Sukhothai to work as a handyman. An investigation…
Wearing your political heart on your sleeve
And just like cricket fever helps sell t-shirts of the boys in green, elections usually whip up a frenzy for political parties’ merchandise. Or at least that would have been the…