About 56.5 Percent Of Registered Voters Cast Their Ballots In Jordanian Parliamentary Election
Election officials count votes in Amman, Jordan, Jan. 23, 2013. About 56.5 percent of the registered voters cast their ballots Wednesday to elect members of the 17th lower house of parliament, the election commission said. <Xinhua/Mohammad Abu Ghosh> A member of the Jordanian Independent Electoral Commission, walks past a large photograph of King Abdullah II […]
Queen Beatrix Of The Netherlands Reviews Honor Guard During Her 2-Day Visit To Singapore
Singaporean President Tony Tan Keng Yam (R) meets with Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix at the Istana in Singapore, Jan. 24, 2013. Queen Beatrix is on a 2-day official visit to Singapore. <Xinhua/Then Chih Wey> Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands inspects an honor guard with Singapore’s President Tony Tan, behind her, during a welcome ceremony on Thursday, […]
Egyptian Protesters Tear Down Cement Wall Built To Block Them From Reaching Parliament
Egyptian protesters gather near Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2012. Egypt’s black-clad riot police fired tear gas in fierce dawn clashes with dozens of protesters on Thursday when they tried to tear down a cement wall built to prevent demonstrators from reaching parliament and the Cabinet building. The violence which was soothed […]
Protesters Dance During Demonstration By Thousands Of Iraqi Sunnis In Ramadi, West Of Baghdad
Protesters dance during a demonstration in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Thousands of Iraqi Sunnis massed along a major western highway in a demonstration, intensifying pressure on the Shiite-led government. Protesters chant slogans against Iraq’s Shiite-led government during a demonstration in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west […]
Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Reveals Gov’t Rules In Dealing With Civil Wars
Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, center, gestures as he arrives with Army Commander Lt. Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya for a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Sri Lanka’s military on Thursday asked the government to introduce its own rules to deal with civil wars, saying existing international humanitarian laws cover only […]
Small firms need to overcome Peter Pan Syndrome
Small Korean firms are trapped in what resembles the Peter Pan Syndrome or Dwarf Syndrome, where adults do not want or feel unprepared to grow up. In the Korean economy, this tendency can be seen among small- and medium-sized firms that fear to become large companies. Since the 1980s, the number of large firms the […]
The new old year
NEW YORK ― Any look back at 2012 would necessarily focus on three parts of the world: the eurozone, with its seemingly endless financial uncertainties; the Middle East, with its many upheavals, including, but hardly limited to, the Muslim Brotherhood’s accession to power in Egypt and Syria’s savage civil war, which has already claimed more […]
Park bets on safe PM choice
Transition team chairman Kim Yong-jun nominated President-elect Park Geun-hye trumped all guesses Thursday and named her transition team Chairman Kim Yong-jun as her nominee for the first prime minister of her inaugural Cabinet. Kim, 75, headed the Constitutional Court and is respected for overcoming a physical handicap. But the beauty of Park’s choice is that […]
President’s brother gets two years
Rep. Chung jailed in court for aiding in illegal campaign fundraising The Seoul Central District Court sentenced President Lee Myung-bak’s elder brother-cum-political mentor Lee Sang-deuk to two years in prison Thursday on charges of taking illegal political funds from businesses during the 2007 presidential race. The court also ordered him to pay a fine of […]
Korean ‘Paul Potts’ will go to college next month
Korea’s Paul Potts, Choi Sung-bong, will enter college next month. Choi was the runner-up in Korea’s Got Talent in 2011, a local version of the audition program Britain’s Got Talent. He will enter as a freshman at the Department of Culture and Arts Management at Kyung Hee Cyber University. The singer became famous after his […]
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