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East Asia
About disappearing jobs
Books published on different kind of extinction No jobs seem to be permanent. Jobs that flourished once would eventually disappear, leaving behind confounded workers. To shed light on this, in a cultural aspect, the National Folk Museum of Korea has recently published three books featuring jobs – match manufacturing, wall…
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East Asia
‘Korea feels colder than Greenland’
“I’ve been freezing while I’ve been in Korea,” said Karsten Peter Jensen, 27, a political-science student from Greenland. “Last month, when Korea was minus 16 and minus 18 degrees Celsius, in Greenland, it was around minus 5 degrees.” Jensen arrived in Korea in mid-November for an internship opportunity preparing for…
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East Asia
Verbal abuse floods call centers
Call center employees have in the past had to cope with verbal and sexual harassment from abusive customers. Now, the latter will face criminal punishment. The unsavory experiences of people dealing with customers and clients by telephone have been revealed by the financial companies that hire them, prompting law enforcement…
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South Asia
Local Residents Protest Against Power Cuts In Srinagar, Indian-Controlled Kashmir
Local residents shout slogans as they block a road during a protest against unscheduled power cuts on the outskirts of Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, Jan. 8, 2013. Locals said that only three hours of power supply was provided daily for the past several weeks, which led to the…
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East Asia
Xi Jinping Gets Together With Russian Security Council Secretary In Beijing
Xi Jinping (R), general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 8, 2013. <Xinhua/Lan Hongguang>
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East Asia
Yu Zhengsheng Visits Old Communist Party Member During His Inspection Tour To Ganzi
Yu Zhengsheng (3rd R), a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visits Zhaxi Zhoima’s home, who has been a CPC member for 44 years, in Qangba Village, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Jan. 6, 2013. Yu made…
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East Asia
14 Cars Seen Piled Up In An Accident That Killed Eight People In Minhe County, China
Photo taken on Jan. 8, 2013 shows the site where a 14-vehicle pileup occurred in Minhe County of northwest China’s Qinghai Province. Eight people were killed and 28 others were injured in the accident on Tuesday afternoon, said rescuers. <Xinhua/Kong Xianyao>
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East Asia
Li Keqiang With French Minister Of Economy And Finance In Beijing
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R) meets with French Minister of Economy and Finance Pierre Moscovici in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 8, 2013. <Xinhua/Yao Dawei>
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East Asia
U.S. Delegation Including Google Chairman Visits Kim Il-sung University In Pyongyang
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (R) and Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (C) watch a student using the online library service in a reading room at the Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Jan. 8, 2012. A U.S. delegation including Richardson and…
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West Asia
Egyptian President, PM Talk With Qatari PM, Two Other Cabinet Ministers In Cairo
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (C) and Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil (4th L) meet with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani (2nd L) and Qatari Finance Minister Yousef Kamal (1st L) in Cairo, Egypt, on Jan. 8, 2013. <Xinhua>
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