Since its establishment in 2003, the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (NMTL) has been promoting native language literature. It organized the "Native Language Literature Special Exhibition Series 1 and 2" in 2005 and 2008, and the "Taiwan Literature Exhibition of Mother Languages" from 2010 to...
The national question of Sri Lanka, which simply means the ethnic issue, is the most sensitive and controversial topic in the current political climate. Yet, it has to be confronted and resolved if there is to be a radical or fundamental change in the way the country is being run since in...
If I weigh 200 pounds, and my next-door neighbor weighs 500 pounds (as does the guy being profiled during the part of the show from which the quote was extracted — a bit more than 100 pounds overweight, I’d say!), then my neighbor’s body burns about2.5 timesas many calories as ...
Seoul National University was founded on August 22, 1946 by merging ten institutions of higher education around the Seoul area, pursuant to "The Law Concerning the Foundation of Seoul National University." The schools merged were: Kyŏngsŏng University, Kyŏngsŏng Colleges of Law, Industrial...
The National Museum of the Filipino People can be also found here. It is a complex of two Greco-Roman buildings which house ancient relics, native mummies, natural treasures and factual galleries about the Philippines and other countries. The museum also boasts a vast collection of artworks and...
Museum of Art The new building of the Museum of Art Museum of Art, Seoul National University (SNUMoA) was established in 1995, with contributions from the Samsung Cultural Foundation, after a proposal from Dr. Lee Jong-sang, a professor of Oriental Art. The building designed by the Dutch ...
Ministry of Justice officials in the Netherlands are currently working on an amendment to the law that would allow descendants of enslaved people to change their family names free of charge. The initiative was taken by the political party Denk (‘Think’), the Tropenmuseum of world cultures orga...