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Amid brouhaha, KORUS FTA goes into effect
Seoul expects 5.7% GDP growth over next 10 years After nearly five years of debate, division and political bickering, Korea’s controversial free trade agreement with the United States (KORUSFTA) goes into effect at the stroke of midnight today. The deal brings together the world’s largest and 15th largest economies whose…
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Springtime in New York
People walk at the Times Square in New York, March 13, 2012. The temperature reached 22 degrees centigrade on Tuesday. <Photo: Xinhua/Wang Lei> news@theasian.asia
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‘Nodding Syndrome’ Kills 170 Uganda Children
Children look at their mother Helen Apoto locking their sick brother in the room before she leaves in Pader, Uganda, March 8, 2012. Some parents have to tie the children or else they will wander off and end up drowning in rivers or falling in fire places like some have…
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Uganda Kids Suffer From ‘Nodding Syndrome’
Tony Odong, a 12-year old victim of nodding syndrome, sits in front of his home playing with a dead chicken found nearby in Pader, Uganda, March 8, 2012. The cause of nodding syndrome is not yet known by scientists despite years of research. Ugandan Ministry of health statistics indicate that…
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Stay in Pyongyang teaches many things
Interview with Chinese students who studied Korean in Pyongyang BEIJING – A growing number of Chinese students are coming to Seoul and other major cities of South Korea for studying. Of some 90,000 total foreign students here, about 70 percent are from China. However, not a few other Chinese students…
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East Asia
Famous Meili Snow Mountain in Yunnan Province, China
Photo taken on March 12, 2012 shows colorful sutra streamers in front of the Meili Snow Mountain in Deqin county, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in southwest China’s Yunnan province. The Meili Snow Mountain, with the highest peak at an altitude of 6,740 meters, is covered with glaciers formed thousands of…
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Society
Families with 3 kids or more show steady rise
Lee Su-jin, a 30-year-old housewife, gave birth to her third child in January last year. She said it fulfilled the plan she and her husband made after they got married. “I thought it would be great to have three kids. Having two seemed somewhat insufficient to me,” said Lee, who…
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Hallyu boom triggers bureaucratic turf war
Ministries vie for dominant role as K-pop leaps borders The hallyu, or the Korean wave, its market grew tenfold last year, compared with a decade ago. According to industry experts, the K-pop craze, which is contagious among young people in Asia, Europe and Latin America, is a key driver for…
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Korea, Philippines agree to prevent illegally-brokered marriages
The government will offer language and other educational programs to Filipino women tying the knot with Korean men prior to their arrival here, to help them adapt to their new life in Korea. This is part of an agreement between the two countries to stem “problematic” marriages between Korean men…
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