• Education

    Scenery of Examination Room in Yemen

    Yemeni students take their final exam in a classroom in Sanaa, capital of Yemen, June 26, 2012. The illiteracy rate stands at 29.8 percent for men and 62.1 percent for women in the war-torn country. The Yemeni government has taken measures to improve education among the people to decrease illiteracy.…

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    Mexican Doctors Succeed In Removing 15-kg Tumor of 2yr Kid

    In this still image taken from an undated video released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, an image created through medical imaging technology shows an X-ray-like image of 2-year-old Jesus Rodriguez, prior to having a benign tumor removed from his body. Mexican doctors successfully…

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  • tobechecked

    Leading Lebanese TV Station Attacked

    In this picture taken on Tuesday, June 25, 2012, a Lebanese policeman steps out of the destroyed main entrance of the Lebanese TV station, In Beirut, Lebanon. The headquarters of a leading Lebanese TV station was attacked a day after hosting a hardline Sunni Muslim cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Aseer who…

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  • East Asia

    Foreign Journalists Feel What Division Is At DMZ

    Foreign journalists pose with a military police when they visited Dorasan Station, located nearest to the  DMZ dividing South and North Korea, in Paju, Geyong-gi province, as part of their DMZ tour Sunday (June 24). The foreign journalists visited Seoul to attend the International Media Conference held at Yonsei University on June 22-24.…

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  • Visa rules for Chinese tourists to be eased

    The Ministry of Justice said Tuesday that it will allow more Chinese nationals to obtain multiple-entry visas or enter the country without a visa from Aug. 1. “We are improving the visa system to attract more Chinese tourists to the country. We expect the new rules to help boost the…

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  • Society

    Neolithic farm field found in Gangwon Province

    Researchers have found evidence proving that farming took place in Korea 5,000 years ago. The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage said Tuesday that archaeological traces presumed to be East Asia’s first Neolithic remains of an agricultural field have been found in a northern province. The discovery in Goseong, Gangwon…

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  • Politics

    Potemkin village in Pyongyang?

    Sleek and modern: The words are rarely used to describe North Korea. Yet the latest addition to the Pyongyang skyline, a set of new apartments in the central Mansudae district appears from the outside to be just that. But while the North touts it as progress, the jury is still…

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  • Politics

    China-NK economic ties benefit S. Korea

    MANILA –– Growing economic cooperation between China and North Korea could lead to the latter’s economic reform and eventual opening up of its economy to the outside world, experts said. “(South Korea) doesn’t have to look at the strengthening economic relationship between Beijing and Pyongyang only as a threat since…

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  • Mental health checkup

    Changes needed in perception, infrastructure Korea has one of the world’s highest suicide rates, scores among the lowest on happiness indexes, a serious overdrinking problem, and ominous school violence. A word that best sums up such a society is “abnormal.” So it seems only natural, if long belated, that the…

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  • Column

    US-Burma ties: from isolation to engagement

    After years of diplomatic tension over isolation and sanctions, U.S.-Burma relations improved in recent months. What prospects does this rapprochement have? The relationship between the United States and Burma was mostly cordial in the years following Burma’s independence from the British in 1948. It was strained by the Burmese military…

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