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Professors wish for ‘new beginning’ for 2013
Professors have picked the four-character Chinese phrase “除舊布新” (jeguposin), which means old things are removed and new things begin, as an idiom to characterize the year 2013. The phrase from an ancient Chinese history book represents people’s wish for reform, according to a professors’ journal, Sunday. The journal said 30…
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East Asia
Candidates under close scrutiny
Presdiential transition team appointments delayed President-elect Park Geun-hye, in collaboration with Cheong Wa Dae, is screening candidates of the transition team, a spokesman of the team said Sunday. This came amid mounting criticism over the President-elect’s closed-door decision in choosing her members. Three of them including Kim Kyung-jae, the vice…
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East Asia
Gyeongsang breeds presidents
7 of 11 heads of state have been born there In politics here, where you’re from is something that matters especially for wannabe presidents. They would need to bear this in mind when building their credentials because the vast majority of Korean presidents were born in the nation’s southeastern region…
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‘You get less beer than you order’
If beer lovers feel cheated about the amount of their beloved beverage, the latest findings confirmed they are right. A survey by the Korea Consumer Agency on 90 bars in six districts in Seoul showed they give 13 to 23 percent less beer than the amounts ordered. The bars on…
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East Asia
Hallyu to turbo-charge new year
Psy to release follow-up song in February “Hallyu” or the Korean wave, led mainly by K-pop in the past, is set to become even more influential around the world next year. Psy, who amazed the world with massive hit “Gangnam Style,” is ready to break into world music markets with…
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East Asia
NK Leader Kim Jong-un Welcomed By Staff Who Worked For Satellite Launch
This photo provided by KCNA on Dec. 30, 2012 shows Kim Jong Un, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), claps along with the working staff, who participated in launch of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite in Pyongyang. This photo provided by KCNA on Dec. 30, 2012 shows Kim Jong…
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West Asia
Two Protesters Injured By Gunshots At Demonstrations In Western Iraq
Protesters chant slogans against Iraq’s Shiite-led government as they expelled Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq and his bodyguards from the demonstrations scene in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Gunshots wounded at least two people Sunday at demonstrations in western Iraq when bodyguards…
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South Asia
At Least 19 Shia Pilgrims Killed By A Bomb Blast In Mastung, Pakistan
Pakistani people gathered near a damaged pilgrims bus at the blast site in southwest Pakistan’s Mastung on Dec. 30, 2012. At least 19 people were killed and 25 others injured when a bomb hit a convoy of three buses carrying Shia pilgrims in Pakistan’s southwest district of Mastung on Sunday…
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East Asia
Xi Jinping Talks With Impoverished Villagers During His Trip To Hebei Province
Xi Jinping (R), general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, visits the family of Gu Chenghu, an impoverished villager in the Gujiatai Village of Longquanguan Township, Fuping County, north China’s Hebei Province, Dec. 30, 2012. Xi made a…
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