Foreign News

     The English language newspaper, the Bangkok Post, recently had an interesting article regarding wild elephants many of which inhabit the forests of Thailand.  They are nuisance to farmers living near the forest because they raid the farmer's crops.  Many attempts to fence them out, including electric fences, have been ineffective.
     Perhaps you'd never guess what is working and it is an organic solution...honey bees!  Elephants have a strong natural aversion to bees.  With a row of bee hives the elephants are effectively fenced out of the farmer's fields.
    It is a win win because the honey produced is consumed by the farmers.  Surplus honey is sold providing additional income.  A very sweet solution to the elephant problem.
   My flight from Thailand took me through Korea.  Embarking from Korea I passed a table full of newspapers for the taking.  Choosing an English language Korean paper I was struck by a front page article about a new South Korean labor law.  Their parliament has just passed legislation reducing the official work week hours.....wait for this....from 68 to 52 a week!  That's a significant reduction but still a long week.

Art work done by volunteers from the University.

Three year old's dressed up.