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...still technically at war - one that abruptly burst on March 24, when North Korean authorities ordered 11 South Korean government officers stationed at Kaesong to leave the country. The incident was only the start of a North Korean temper tantrum that has plunged North-South relations to their lowest point in a decade. On March 28, North Korea test-fired a barrage of missiles into the sea and warned it would "mercilessly wipe out" any South Korean vessels that violated its territorial waters. Two days later, a military official threatened to turn South Korea to "ashes...
...with demand from surging Asian populations. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that worldwide rice consumption increased 0.9% last year, to nearly 424 million metric tons. Production increased less than 0.7%. "This has been coming on for several years now," Zeigler says, noting that global stocks are at their lowest point in decades. "We're consuming more than we've been producing. And as demand for rice continues to increase, we've seen productivity growth plateauing...
...found that just one percent of Bangladeshis and seven percent of Pakistanis held “high managerial or professional” jobs. Professor Tariq Modood, a sociologist at the University of Bristol, has published research that supports this; he found that Pakistani and Bangladeshi weekly earnings being the lowest of all ethnic groups in Britain...
...subjects including English and Math), considered by the government to be a standard for passing high school. According to Professor Modood’s research, over 40 percent of Pakistani and Bangladeshi youths today still have no educational qualifications. In fact, the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have some of the lowest educational qualifications among all immigrant groups, even though many African and Caribbean Britons have similar socioeconomic profiles...
...tests) in many parts of the country are also prohibitively expensive. And it is easier to recoup the financial losses of medical school tuition—which can run up to $160,000 for private institutions—in a lucrative specialty. Primary care doctors have some of the lowest salaries for physicians, from around $160,000 to $175,000, in contrast to specialists who can easily earn two to three times that amount...