Tunisian Ruling Party Head Speaks In Press Conference
Rached Ghannouchi, head of the ruling Islamic Ennahdha party, gives a press confrence in Tunis, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Five days of anti-government rioting marked by police gunfire and teargas ended with hundreds of wounded in Tunisia’s poor interior region and left behind a seething bitterness that is a warning of danger ahead for the […]
Arab-Korean poetic meeting: Publication of Ko Un’s poems in UAE celebrated in Seoul
The Arab-Korean Meeting in Seoul A Signing ceremony for “One Thousand & One Lives” Attended by Author and Translator The poetic anthology entitled “One Thousand & One Lives”, published by Dubai Al-Thaqafeyya in its monthly series (August 2012), was celebrated in Korea. The celebration was organized by Mr. Lee Sang-ki, AJA founder, and witnessed the […]
Are two Koreas in space race?
While pundits speculate over North Korea’s motivation for a long-range rocket planned launch for this month, one factor has been largely overlooked: a competition with the South to become the first to put a satellite in orbit. Security analysts point out that Pyongyang’s announcement on Dec. 1 of the launch came just two days after […]
Seoul seeks to freeze NK accounts
Seoul is working with international powers to identify North Korean financial accounts to freeze as a possible measure if Pyongyang follows through with a long-range rocket launch later this month. Government officials said the Lee administration was working with the international community to identify bank accounts abroad that hold money for the Stalinist state. “Our […]
South Korea falls to 45th in global corruption awareness ranking
South Korea dropped two notches in a global corruption awareness ranking to place 45th among 176 nations in 2012, an international watchdog said in its annual report on Wednesday. According to the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2012 issued by the non-governmental agency Transparency International (TI), South Korea scored 56 out of 100. The index, based […]
‘We want to be a window of Asia’
The AsiaN, a Seoul-based online media service published in four languages, aims at playing the role of “the window of Asia” by delivering news in the region from an Asian perspective, its head said. Lee Sang-ki, publisher of The AsiaN (http://www.theasian.asia), said foreign press tend to report Asian news from their own angle and sometimes […]
Samsung speeds up power transition
Junior Lee faces task of handling patent battle with Apple The promotion of Samsung Electronics Chief Operating Officer (COO) and President Lee Jay-yong to vice chairman came as a surprise because there had been speculation that he would maintain his current position. A Samsung executive said that the one-notch elevation for the only son of […]
Smart payment service
KT develops MoCa to beat Google in mobile payment KT introduced a new service called MoCa Wednesday in a bid to beat Google in the smart mobile payment service market. The new service comes as KT, Korea’s No. 2 mobile carrier after SK Telecom and leading broadband operator, has made huge investments to bolster its […]
Samsung heir prompted to vice chairman
Samsung Group promoted Lee Jay-yong, the only son of the group leader Lee Kun-hee, to vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, its flagship affiliate, Wednesday. The promotion comes two years after the 44-year-old chief operating officer (COO) was promoted to president at the world’s largest manufacturer of computer memory chips and smartphones. The Harvard-educated Lee joined […]
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