The South Korean parliament has decided to reduce the working week from 68 to 52 hours. With this measure, President Moon Jae-in is enacting an important election pledge. South Korea is among the countries with the longest working hours worldwide. So far, employees had to work twelve overtime hours per week. While the employees are happy about the news, small businesses fear losses in sales.
Qatar is pumping money into education and has built a spanking new Education City district. The Dutch architect Ellen Van Loon, together with Rem Kohlhaas, has created a new library for the city.
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Make an instrument that sounds like the sea: a mbira.
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Philippe Sands talks about his work as a human rights lawyer.
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En route with Romanian harvest hands and seasonal labourers.
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Around 88 percent of those working in Qatar are migrant labourers. Bal Krishna Gautham is one of them.
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Short news from South Korea.
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