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South Asia
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West Asia
Saudi Arabia on 14 Mar 2012
Saudi Arabia on 14 Mar 2012 <Arab News>: Defense minister assesses armed forces’ preparedness
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Politics
UN envoy presses China on NK defectors
Marzuki Darusman, left, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on North Korean human rights, talks at the U.N. office in Geneva, Monday, with former National Assembly Speaker Rep. Kim Hyong-o, third from right, and Rep. Park Sun-young of the Liberty Forward Party, at Kim’s left, about the Chinese government’s forced repatriation of…
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Lifestyle
Heartthrob determined to go beyond his image
More than a decade into his career, Joo Jin-mo, 37, is still considered one of the best-looking faces in Korean cinema. He is also a victim of that image, however, incarnating one virile leading man after another. Even in his newest film “Gabi” that opens today, he plays that tough-guy…
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Lifestyle
Both men and women dislike clothing that is too revealing
Unexpectedly, both men and women dislike clothing that is too revealing, according to a survey Sunday. Clothing that is too revealing was the worst dress both for men and women, followed by jogging suits (16.7 percent for men, 15.5 percent for women) and everyday casual (16.7 percent for men, 13.5…
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Business
KORUS FTA: boon or bane?
A sign offering a 40 percent discount for American wines in celebration of the March 15 effectuation of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (KORUS FTA) hangs at the entrance of a wine store in an E-Mart outlet in downtown Seoul, Tuesday. The KORUS FTA will remove a 15 percent tariff…
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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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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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