Young people mostly support scrapping a law that automatically gives children their father’s surname whether the mother agrees or not, a straw poll suggests. The Chosun Ilbo conducted a quick poll of 100 undergraduate and graduate students in their 20s and found that 47 supported the idea. But 22 said children should continue to use…
Almost half of all adult Koreans have put on weight in lockdown, a study by the Korean Society for the Study of Obesity suggests. Forty-six percent of the 1,000 respondents over 20 said they gained more than 3 kg since the coronavirus epidemic started. The main cause of weight gain was more time spent on…
“Gonna have to put things back in place,” wrote the mayor of the Belgian village that gained territory. Facebook Franch got a little smaller, and Belgium a little bigger, thanks to an annoyed Belgian farmer. The farmer in the border village of Erquelinnes moved a stone in the path of his tractor, according to the BBC.…
The Chinese Long March 5B rocket launched Tianhe, the core module of the Chinese Space Station. CMS It sounds like the plotline for a Bruce Willis movie: The Pentagon said in a statement Tuesday that it’s tracking a large Chinese rocket that is out of control and expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere this weekend. The…
Signal says it was only trying to make ads that showed Instagram users what data of theirs is used to target ads to them. Getty Images Facebook rejected ads that Signal tried to buy on Instagram that sought to highlight the types of data it collects from users, the encrypted messaging service said in a…
South Africa’s sprint quartet’s 4x100m gold medal at the World Relay Championships at the weekend increased their claims for a medal at the Tokyo Olympics later this year. But they’ll have to pick up the pace. South African 100-metre champion Akani Simbine showed why he is among the world’s elite sprinters as he overcame a…
Despite having to flee after the state raided their offices, members of LGBT+ Rights Ghana vow to continue to work for legal recognition in a country pushing for even more repressive laws. More than two months after fleeing “unprecedented” threats of violence, members of the queer rights organisation LGBT+ Rights Ghana are still in hiding.…
ZANU-PF youths in Manicaland province are reportedly eyeing Headlands farms allocated to party bigwigs in the constituency, among them former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa and former Agriculture minister Joseph Made, which they claim are oversized. Chinamasa is now the Zanu PF national finance secretary while Made was ousted in 2017 following the removal of now…
There are growing fears that earnings from tobacco, which remains touted as the country’s second single largest foreign currency earner after gold’s net export proceeds, might be far less in foreign receipts compared to other commodities because most of the contract schemes are sponsored using offshore funds. According to the state media, reports say after…
As India’s export ban results in COVAX supplies to drying up, African countries have been scrambling in a desparate attempt to find alternatives. The second shot is proving difficult. Most African countries rely on COVAX, the World Health Organization (WHO) program built to ensure poor countries have equitable access to vaccines to combat the pandemic,…
