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East Asia
S. Korean son of late N.K. party chairwoman arrives in Pyongyang for permanent residence
A South Korean son of Ryu Mi-yong, the late chairwoman of a North Korean minor political party, has arrived in Pyongyang to live in the communist country for good, a North Korean propaganda media outlet said Sunday. Ryu and her husband, Choe Tok-sin, who served as foreign minister in South…
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East Asia
No. of visitors to major royal palaces in Seoul hits 5 mln in H1
The number of people who visited the four main royal palaces and Jongmyo Shrine in Seoul surpassed the 5 million mark in the first half of the year for the first time in three years, the cultural authorities said Monday. The four palaces from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) are Gyeongbok,…
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East Asia
Police chief vows thorough probe into assault on Vietnamese woman
South Korea’s police chief on Monday expressed regrets over a recent assault on a Vietnamese woman by her Korean husband and vowed to conduct a thorough investigation into the case. Min Gap-ryong, commissioner general of the Korean National Police Agency, made the remarks during his talks with To Lam, Vietnamese…
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East Asia
S. Korea to send rotational troops to South Sudan
A new contingent of South Korean troops will be deployed to South Sudan later this month to carry out U.N. peacekeeping operations, the Army said Monday. A send-off ceremony took place in Incheon, west of Seoul, for more than 280 rotational troops to serve at the Hanbit unit in the…
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West Asia
Two Azeri soldiers killed in accidental explosion
Baku: Two soldiers were killed and one was injured after a tank shell exploded at a military base in Azerbaijan on Saturday, the Azeri ministry of defense said in a statement. “On July 6 in the morning, an emergency happened in one of the military units. A serviceman accidentally dropped a…
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West Asia
Iran’s Hyrcanian Forests added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Tehran: The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has voted to add Iran’s Hyrcanian forests to its list of World Heritage Sites. The announcement was made by UNESCO in the Azeri capital Baku where the World Heritage Committee has been holding its meeting. “The floristic biodiversity of the broad-leaved…
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Culture
Ancient city of Babylon designated UNESCO World Heritage Site
Babylon, the capital of ancient Babylonian empire and a unique testimony to one of the most influential empires of the ancient world, was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC) announced on July 6 in a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, that “Babylon, an ancient…
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East Asia
‘Seowon of Korea’ designated UNESCO World Heritage Site
A selection of nine South Korean Neo-Confucian academies that promoted learning, veneration of scholars and interaction with the environment, have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. “This site, located in central and southern parts of the Republic of Korea, comprises nine seowon, representing a type of Neo-Confucian academy…
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East Asia
Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan added to World Heritage list
Two tumulus clusters in western Japan that represent an outstanding type of ancient East Asian burial mound construction and the hierarchy of society at the time have been added to the World Heritage list. Located on a plateau above the Osaka Plain, the site, called Mozu-Furuichi tumulus clusters, includes 49…
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Culture
UNESCO adds Bahrain’s Dilmun Burial Mounds to World Heritage list
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has inscribed Bahrain’s Dilmun Burial Mounds on the World Heritage list. The decision was made during the 43rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Dilmun Burial Mounds is Bahrain’s third site to be designated on the World Heritage…
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