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Seoul gay pride organizers decide to go on wi

Seoul: Organizers of South Korea's annual gay pride festival have decided to go ahead with scheduled parade in downtown Seoul, despite police ban as well as protests from conservative Christian groups. More than 20,000 people are expected to take part in the street parade to be conducted on June 28. The date comes at the end of the Korea Queer Festival which has to be kicked off during next week. As there are fiery and vocal resistance from conservative Christian groups, the police is being fo...

Beijing bans public smoking

Beijing: Authorities have banned public smoking in China's capital, Beijing by introducing a new law. Even though smoking bans are already existed in China, the authorities were largely failed to stop the habit totally. These new tougher regulations ban smoking in restaurants, offices and on public transport plying in Beijing. Thousands of inspectors are enforced for the successful implementation of the smoking ban. China has over 300 million smokers while over a million Chinese people die from ...

Sri Lanka's Tamil natives commemorate civil w

Colombo: President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena has promised to seek reconciliation on the sixth anniversary of the army's victory over Tamil Tiger separatists. The president wanted the truth regarding the conflict to be established and justice delivered. During the sixth anniversary of the civil war victory, Tamil politicians were allowed to pay tribute to dead civilians for the first time. Their commemoration was at the former war zone in the north and east provinces of Sri Lanka. Poli...

President of Chile plans to lift ban on abort

Santiago: Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has announced her plan to lift ban on abortion existing in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. Ms Bachelet has brought a bill in Congress to legalize abortion in the country. But the rule is applicable only in cases of rape or whenever there is a threat to the life of expecting mothers and babies. According to Ms. Michelle Bachelet the absolute ban on abortion has been creating danger to the lives of thousands of Chilean women every year. Cu...

China bans text books which promote Western v

Beijing: A Chinese state media said that the Chinese education minister has asked universities in the country to avoid textbooks which promote Western values. Yuan Guiren has already urged the universities to maintain political honesty and keep criticism of leaders in the country or political system out of the classroom. His comments, reported by Xinhua news agency were come at an educational forum. In recent months strict restrictions were going on over the academic field of China. In Decem...

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