Society

Elisa Pascual, 12, from La Puebla de Alfindén, has presented her first book 'Aurora y los niños intrépidos', adapted with special typography for dyslexic readers and soon to be translated into braille.

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Ahn Chang-ho, chair of South Korea's National Human Rights Commission, warned on Monday that the country's extreme early private education culture endangers children's physical and mental well-being. In a statement ahead of Children's Day, he called it a serious violation of children's rights, depriving them of play and rest. Citing UNICEF data, he noted Korean children rank high in academics but low in health metrics.

Juan Carlos González Marcos, popularly known as Pánfilo, died on Thursday in El Vedado, Havana, after years of physical decline, poverty, and neglect. The news was confirmed by people close to him. He rose to fame in 2009 by interrupting a street interview shouting “jama!”, a Cuban slang for food that came to symbolize the island's hardships.

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About 20 members of the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination staged a surprise 'bus-boarding' protest at the Gwanghwamun Station intersection in central Seoul at 8:10 a.m. on Friday. Wheelchair-bound activists attempted to board city buses, demanding a new bill to guarantee mobility rights for disabled people and the expansion of low-floor buses. The action caused partial road closures and severe traffic congestion.

In a recent Havana Times diary entry, Cuban writer Fabiana del Valle argues that Cubans suffer from a 'beggar syndrome' ingrained by decades of socialist policies, calling for self-reliance. She details personal hardships and challenges dependence on foreign aid and remittances.

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A man fled after fatally stabbing a woman he had dated on a street in Namyangju, near Seoul, on Saturday morning but was apprehended by police. The victim, who was under police protection, was found in cardiac arrest and later died in hospital. The suspect, a convicted ex-offender required to wear an electronic monitoring device, was caught shortly after destroying the device.