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People
Hwang wins gold medal at UK flower show
Hwang Ji-hae, 35, a Korean environmental artist, won the gold medal at the 2012 Chelsea Flower Show with her work “Quiet Time: DMZ Forbidden Garden.” It’s a repeat performance for Hwang at one of the world’s most prestigious horticultural events. She also won last year with her recreation of a…
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Business
CEOs pick favorite wines to give, receive and drink
For some businessmen, wine is much more than just fermented grapes. Doubling as a drink and status symbol, it tends to go hand in hand with doing business, providing a delightfully disarming charm to conversations between corporate suits and bringing out the best in the “three-fork” dinner in front of…
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Politics
North Korea upgrades rocket launch pad
This April 29 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows what appears to be the initial stages of construction of a rocket assembly building at Musudan-ri in northeastern North Korea. The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies says this building and a nearby launch pad under construction…
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East Asia
Here Comes Purehearted Monks
Shaven-headed young boys in line bow before the Dongjasung (little monk) soccer match held to celebrate Buddha’s upcoming birthday at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. They are the children who entered the temple to have an experience of monks’ life for three weeks, called Little…
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South East Asia
Major News in Philippines on May 23: Pacquiao needs impressive victory vs. Bradley
Top news in <Manila Times>: Pacquiao needs impressive victory vs. Bradley news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
[China Now] China starts to have interest in comfort women
A Chinese internet media Sohu Cyber (www.sohu.com) reported about an elderly Korean woman living at Kangmiao district, Angui province in central China, for more than 50 years. She was learned to have forcibly brought to China as a comfort woman by Japanese imperial army during the World War II, it said. According to the media, she…
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East Asia
Skytree In Tokyo Opens To Public
Visitors wait in front of the entrance of the Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. The world’s tallest tower and Japan’s biggest new landmark opened to the public on Tuesday. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Lebanese Woman At Ease After Being Released
A Lebanese Shiite woman, right, who was released with other women from kidnapping in Syria on their way home from a religious pilgrimage in Iran, is seen hugged and kissed by her daughter, left, upon her arrival at Rafik Hariri international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, early Wednesday May 23, 2012. The Lebanese…
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Education
Spain’s Deepening Economic Crisis
A protester carries a mock pair of scissors with the words ‘Cuts for politicians and bankers’ during a demonstration against education cuts in Madrid Tuesday May 22, 2012. Teachers and students from every level of Spain’s education system went on strike Tuesday to protest wide-ranging government spending cuts. The impact…
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Politics
Russia opposes NATO’s missile defense system
In dual press conferences held on Monday evening after the closing of NATO’s historic summit in US President Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President Obama discussed NATO missile defense program and developments in Afghanistan and Yemen. One of the most contentious issues which…
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