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Young Koreans Are Happy to Go It Alone

Edit Chosun Ilbo 28 May 2016
Young Koreans are increasingly happy to eat, drink and go to the movies alone. Movie theater chain CJ CGV says 10.1 percent of all moviegoers last year watched films by themselves, and 37 percent of these solo moviegoers were in their 20s ... Choi Kwang-nam (21), who studies at a private university in Seoul, said, "I watch movies alone around once or twice a month ... Often they have comfortable sofas and serve snacks ... ....

Muslim mob attacks Christians, parade naked woman

Edit Topix 28 May 2016
An armed Muslim mob stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded her naked on the streets in an attack last week in which seven Christian homes were also looted and torched in a province south of the Egyptian capital. According to the local Orthodox Coptic church and security officials, the assault in the Minya province village of Karma on Friday ......

Connacht can give dream season a fairytale ending

Edit Scotsman 28 May 2016
The two provinces will clash at BT Murrayfield this evening with the title destined to end up in Irish hands for a ninth time out of 15 but a first-ever victory for Connacht, who for so long have been the little brothers of rugby in the Emerald Isle, would be the least likely championship triumph since the competition began in 2001....

Letters to the Editor, May 28

Edit Toronto Sun 28 May 2016
A HUMANE DEATH. Re “Horses saved from slaughter” (Kevin Connor, May 21) ... Gruesome. Lynn MacDonald ... I have been a resident of five provinces and have never seen a more reckless, inept, careless and arrogant government in all my life. It saddens me to see that once great province turned into something akin to a Third World economy, due to the grandiose failures (and lies) of the current government and the one preceding it....

The Little-Known Alibaba Unit That Prompted an SEC Probe

Edit Topix 28 May 2016
The Chinese delivery business that lets customers of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ship packages from Shanghai in the east to a far-flung province bordering Pakistan in the west is now stirring questions from U.S. regulators. Cainiao Smart Logistics Network Ltd., 47 percent-owned by Alibaba, isn't consolidated into the e-commerce giant's accounts and now the Securities and Exchange Commission is asking why ... ....

Harassment, murder, rape of transvestites in Pakistan on rise

Edit Topix 28 May 2016
According to information received from media reports and Blue Veins, a rights based organisation working for the empowerment of transgender, a 25-year-old transvestite Alesha, an activist and a coordinator at TransAction Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, was shot eight times on May 22, by a gang of extortionists who allegedly force the community members to make porn videos ... ....

Middle East refugees help Europe prosecute war crimes

Edit Topix 28 May 2016
Birds fly over a damaged neighbourhood, in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan town in Idlib province, Syria May 23, 2016. European authorities are seeking testimony from some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Middle East violence as they try to build war crimes cases linked to the conflicts in Syria and Iraq ... ....

GM recalls 2.2 million cars in China

Edit Topix 28 May 2016
In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo, a worker arranges engine blocks at the General Motors assembly plant in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province ... ....

Spanish journalist held in Colombia freed, two others to be liberated soon

Edit Reuters 28 May 2016
BOGOTA, May 27 (Reuters) - A Spanish journalist kidnapped by Colombia's ELN rebels said on Friday she is safe after going missing six days ago in restive Norte de Santander province, but declined to give details on her disappearance. ....

Colombia's ELN rebels free three kidnapped journalists

Edit Reuters 28 May 2016
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Three journalists held by Colombia's Marxist ELN rebels were freed on Friday after going missing over the past six days in the restive Norte de Santander province. ....

Golden Arrow files NI 43-101 Technical Report for Chinchillas Silver Project Mineral Resource Estimate (Golden Arrow Resources Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 28 May 2016
(Source. Golden Arrow Resources Corporation) ... GRG, FRA ... is pleased to announce that it has filed on SEDAR a NI 43-101 Technical Report dated May 27th, 2016, to support the updated mineral resource estimate for the Chinchillas silver-lead-zinc project in Jujuy Province, Argentina, as announced April 12th, 2016 ... The Company is currently focused on its Chinchillas Silver Project located in the mining-friendly Province of Jujuy, Argentina....

Islamic State grabs territory from Syrian rebels near Turkish border

Edit Indian Express 28 May 2016
The advances in the northern Aleppo province brought the militants to within few kilometers from the border town of Azaz, where rebels hold an enclave that is hosting tens of thousands of internally displaced civilians ... Share This Article. Related Article ... SNC Al-Qaeda linked group takes northern Syrian town after clash with rebels ... That left the rebels in Aleppo with just one narrow corridor to the outside world, through Idlib province....

World expert on learning and memory headlines U of S neuroscience conference (University of Saskatchewan)

Edit Public Technologies 28 May 2016
(Source. University of Saskatchewan) ... Collingridge, based at the University of Toronto, is keynote speaker at the Neuroscience at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) conference on June 7, which will also highlight some of the leading work in the field in the province ... Essentially, LTP works by strengthening connections among neurons in the brain ... 'We're extremely fortunate to have a neuroscientist of Dr ... (noodl. 33841513) ....
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