1. 2 2 S T Y L I S T . c o . u k
Baby
booster
South Korea
Emergency measures
are set to be put in place in South
Korea, as the country’s birth rate
continues to drop. The number of
newborns between January and
May this year has dropped by 5.3%
to 1.24 children per woman and the
government has responded by
implementing emergency
measures. As well as raising
paternity leave allowances from 1.5
million won (£1,005) to 2 million
won (£1,304) each month, fertility
treatments will also be covered with
health insurance. With a population
of 50.8 million, the government
hopes 20,000 more babies will be
born in 2017. Nappies at the ready.
Flippin’
clever
Russia If dolphins
went to school, they’d
be top of the class. A new study
by researchers has revealed the
mammals can communicate in
sentences of up to five words.
The scientists at Karadag Nature
Reserve in Feodosia, Ukraine,
used an underwater microphone
to record two Black Sea
bottlenose dolphins and found
that by varying the frequency
and volume of their sounds (which
we know as clicks), the dolphins
form “clumps” – which are the
human equivalent of words. All
that’s left to find out now is what
they were talking about…
Step up
Italy Rome’s
world-famous Spanish
Steps (featured in the
Audrey Hepburn
classic Roman Holiday and
built in 1725) have been
reopened after a period of
intensive cleaning. However,
Desperate
decisions
Brazil Two Amazon
tribeswomen have
returned to their native land after
almost dying in civilisation. Sisters
Jakarewyj and Amakaria, who lived
among the uncontacted Awá
people, were resettled to an Awá
village with electricity in 2014 due
to the threat to their forest home
from loggers. But, shortly after
arriving in the village, the sisters
contracted flu and tuberculosis due
to their lack of immunity and had to
be airlifted to emergency treatment.
After recovering they escaped back
to their hunter-gatherer existence,
covering their tracks so they could
not be followed and raising serious
questions over policies concerning
Brazil’s 240 isolated tribes.
IdentIfyIng
progress
Bolivia Transgender citizens in Bolivia can
now change the gender on their ID cards
for the first time. The new law, which
allows people aged 18 and over to update
their name, sex and photo is estimated to
benefit approximately 1,500 Bolivians who
one of the backers of the
clean-up operation isn’t too keen
on visitors returning to the marble
stairway; Paolo Bulgari, chairman
of the luxury jewellery house, was
quoted in the Italian newspaper,
La Repubblica exclaiming:
“Restorers have done a great job.
The steps were coated with coffee,
wine, chewing gum. But if we don’t
set strict rules, the steps will go
back to being used as a camping
site for barbarians.” Or tourists as
they’re otherwise known…
identify as transgender. Vice President Alvaro García
Linera hopes the law will end the “social hypocrisy”
in Bolivia, where members of the LGBTI community
often face abuse. The first Bolivian to register her
new ID during a ceremony attended by the mayor of
La Paz, Luis Revilla was activist Pamela Geraldine
Valenzuela, who said: “I wouldn’t let myself stop in
my fight until I arrived at this moment, until the state
recognised all transgender people in accordance with
the identity that we have completely assumed.” The
move follows similar legislation in Britain and
Australia. Rest of the world, take note.
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A NEW LAW IN BOLIVIA HAS ALLOWED
PAmELA GERALDINE VALENzuELA TO
AmEND HER GENDER ON HER ID CARDS
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