Category: As It Is (慢速新闻杂志)

The impeachment late last month of South Korea’s acting President Han Duck-soo has deepened political division in the country. He had replaced President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached earlier…

Laiba Rashid is a 22-year-old Pakistani student in a special training program in the city of Lahore. The program, called Women on Wheels (WOW), teaches women how to operate two-wheelers,…

Indonesia has the world’s largest known supply of nickel and major supplies of valuable minerals, including cobalt and bauxite. However, the mining industry there is being criticized for not protecting…

Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki said receiving a Nobel Peace Prize has given them new energy to campaign for nuclear disarmament. Next August will be…

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. His presidency was marked by rising inflation and unemployment. He helped negotiate a peace agreement between Egypt and…

Japanese business leader Masayoshi Son and President-elect Donald Trump recently met at Trump’s property, Mar-a-Lago, in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida. They announced plans for SoftBank Group to invest…

One by one, volunteers rescue and repair toys that show the marks of use. They sew clothing and brush fur and hair, add filling and dress the toys. The workers…

A Chinese-run gold mine in eastern Congo’s Ituri province is slowly spreading into an area that many say it should not be operating in at all. The area is the…

In the eastern American state of New Jersey, a large statue of Buddha has become a gathering place for people of many religious faiths. The nine-meter-high statue has stood among…

The capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan, has seen big changes in its high-end housing market. Peace, it seems, is driving up property prices. Omidullah, a real estate agent, is selling…

Vice President Kamala Harris and pop singer Chappell Roan were among the year’s most talked-about people. Their names were also among those people said incorrectly, or mispronounced. In early December,…

In Ecuador, power outages threaten ice cream businesses in the small town of Salcedo in the country’s central highlands. Ice cream production in Salcedo began in the middle of the…

The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) Billionaire Ambitions Report for 2024 said the total number of billionaires worldwide had risen to 2,682 from 2,544 a year earlier. Their worth increased…

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a proposed plan to protect the state’s famous Joshua trees. Environmentalists say the trees are threatened by wildfires, human development and…

A short boat ride from the wealthy city-state of Singapore is something rare – a small, quiet island. People living on Pulau Ubin still talk about the arrival of solar…