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A man talks to an evacuated dog at an evacuee center, Thursday in Fukushima, Japan. Pic: AP.

Shepherding life from Fukushima’s exclusion zone

By Anna Watanabe Tue, Jan 31, 2012 7:03PM UTC View Comments

An animal welfare group is asking for volunteers and donations to help them care for pets and wildlife rescued from inside the Fukushima exclusion zone. Yomiuri Online reports that United Kennel Club (UKC) Japan is looking for the families of the almost 350 homeless dogs and cats they’ve brought out from Fukushima to their Kanagawa...

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Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon quits, sets up race for his seat

By Andy Jackson Fri, Aug 26, 2011 11:28PM UTC View Comments

Oh's pleading with the public to vote was not enough to get them to come out to vote. (photo source unknown)

Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon resigned Friday after a failed referendum on free school lunches in the city’s school system. While that may seem a small reason to upend the choice of voters, who twice voted Oh into the mayor’s office, the referendum was at the center of an emerging contentious debate about expanding public welfare. The...

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Seoul mayor to forgo presidential run

By Andy Jackson Fri, Aug 12, 2011 8:53PM UTC View Comments

Korean voters will not have Oh Se-hoon to kick around in next year's presidential election. (Photo by Jeff Ooi)

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon has declared that he will not be a candidate for the South Korean Presidency in 2012 and instead will fulfill the remainder of his second term, which runs to 2014. Oh had never indicated that he want to run for president, but there had been much speculation that he would run. The...

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Why Australia should keep exporting cattle to Indonesia

By Gavin Atkins Thu, Jun 09, 2011 5:36AM UTC View Comments

Chinese wait to buy grill meats at a vendor store at a gourmet street in Shanghai, China. Pic: AP.

While it’s impossible to condone the mistreatment of cattle as graphically shown on the Four Corners television program recently, I don’t think the subsequent ban on the trade with Indonesia should be condoned either. Let’s assume for a second that we don’t care in the slightest about the livelihoods of the farmers, road transporters, fuel...

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