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North Korea to reduce China reliance
China and North Korea say their relationship is as close as “lips and teeth.” The analogy is discomfiting in Seoul given current trends in bilateral trade, with some concerned that Beijing will simply swallow up its neighbor. The dependence doesn’t sit well in Pyongyang, analysts say. They predict that the…
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IT-Science
US experts argue Apple is innovation killer
Experts say US firm resorts to frivolous litigation to smolder smart creativity Even U.S. officials and patent experts now see Apple’s bid to ban the sale of Samsung Electronics smartphones as detrimental to keeping the information and technology industry innovative. Against this background, U.S. Judge Lucy Koh is being asked…
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World
Hillary With East Timor President Taur Ruak
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, shakes hands with East Timor President Taur Matan Ruak at the Presidential Palace in Dili, East Timor Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in East Timor to offer the small half-island nation support as it ends…
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World
Putin Is An Outdoorsman Enjoying Motorized Hang Glider
Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left) speaks with ornithologists after a flight in a motorized hang glider on the Yamal Peninsula, in Russia Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012. Putin took part in a flight as part of a program devised by environmentalists to lead a flock of endangered Siberian white cranes,…
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South East Asia
Trade Ministers Pose For Camera At APEC Summit In Vladivostok
Peru’s Trade minister Jose Luis Silva, fifth from right, breaks from a group photo of the Trade ministers from Trans-Pacific Countries at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. Pictured from left, Mexico’s Secretary of Economy,Bruno Ferrari, Australia’s Craig Emerson, Brunei’s Lim Jock Seng, Chile’s Foreign Minister,…
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Column
[Indonesian Report] Half of world languages feared to “die” by end of this century
Koichiro Matsuura, Former Director General of UNESCO expressed the significant of Mother languages in his message for the International Mother Language Day on 21 February 2007. “It is in the mother tongue that we utter our first words and express individual thoughts best. It is the foundations upon which all…
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World
A Military Ammunition Depot Blasted In Turkey
AFYONKARAHISAR — Ambulances are seen near the site of blasts in a military ammunition depot in Afyonkarahisar city, central Turkey, on Sept. 5, 2012. At least 20 Turkish military personnel were wounded in two blasts in a military ammunition depot in Afyonkarahisar city on Wednesday night, Turkey’s private NTV news…
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World
Hillary Clinton Inspects Coffee Factory In East Timor
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2nd right, watches coffee beans come out of a sorter during a tour of the Timor Coffee Cooperative in Dili, East Timor Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in East Timor to offer the small half-island nation…
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World
Hillary Holds Press Conference In East Timor
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks as East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao looks on during a joint press conference at the Government Palace in Dili, East Timor, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. Clinton is in East Timor to offer the small half-island nation support as it ends…
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West Asia
Yemenis Suffering Poverty Promised $6.4 Billion Of Aid
SANAA — A poor familiy live in a house on the outskirts of Sanaa, capital of Yemen, on Sept. 5, 2012. An international donors’ meeting held in Saudi capital of Riyadh on Tuesday pledged 6.4 billion U.S. dollars of aid to Yemen to help stabilize the impoverished country after a…
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