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Entertainment
In a first, Saudi princess leads Italian football club
Italian football has a princess. A Saudi princess who is now leading a football club. Princess Noora bin Saad Al Saud is now the president of Spoleto Calcio, a club located in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy’s Green Heart. The club plays in Serie D, he top level of the Italian non-professional…
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Central Asia
Review of the Georgian protest
Almost three weeks have elapsed since anti-Russian and anti-government protests took place in Georgia, a southern Caucasian nation that gained independence from the former Soviet Union. The protests broke out as Georgian anti-Russian sentiment exploded on June 20 after a Russian lawmaker, Sergei Gavrilov, spoke in Russian in Georgia’s parliament.…
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East Asia
Group tours to DMZ hiking trail in eastern coastal area to begin this month
The state-run tourism agency said Tuesday it will begin group bus tours to a trail along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas later this month in the eastern coastal town of Goseong. The Korea Tourism Authority will accept applications for group bus tours to the first DMZ Peace…
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East Asia
Japan rejects S. Korea’s offer to hold talks to resolve export curbs
Japan on Tuesday rejected South Korea’s call for negotiations to resolve a row over Tokyo’s export restrictions against the South, saying it has no intention of lifting the curbs and the issue is not a matter of talks. Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko made the remark after a Cabinet meeting, a…
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Column
Celebrating an extraordinary dedication to high journalism standards
There are events in the professional life of a journalist when there is no room for neutrality and no place for silence because it will then be the choice of those who have absolutely no choice. Only those who are physically, mentally or emotionally dead have no opinion, no voice,…
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East Asia
Namangan is becoming an attractive region For Korean investments
Day by day more and more Korean companies have been eying to invest in Namangan region of Uzbekistan. Nowadays 22 companies with Korean capital, such as UzChasys, specialized in the production of automobile headlamps and lights, Chartak-Daehan-Textile, processing 3,300 tonnes of cotton fiber per year etc. operate in the region.…
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East Asia
6th Anniversary of Magazine N: Dream and Vision
A few days ago, marking the 6th anniversary of our Magazine N, I told you that I would introduce you to our dream and vision. To be honest, I wonder if there is another dream that is more specific and realistic than the fact that I have been able…
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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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