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East Asia
Ulleung preserves remnants of Japan’s colonial rule for a reason
ULLEUNG ISLAND — Kim Pil-ryeon, 85, a native of this island, has a dying wish that will most likely be unfulfilled — meeting her Japanese classmates and neighbors with whom she shared many fond memories in her hometown. Kim may not be aware of how the rest of her compatriots…
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East Asia
UN ready to engage in NK nuclear issue
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he is prepared to play an active role in the denuclearization of North Korea. “I am ready to play my part to work toward a peaceful and denuclearized Korean Peninsula… including through my own personal engagement and visits to the Democratic People’s Republic…
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East Asia
Van Gogh’s self-portraits come to Korea
Koreans love Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh’s bold use of color, unique brushstrokes and sentiment in his paintings. This makes the expectations on the coming Van Gogh exhibit higher. Hosted by Hankook Ilbo, The Korea Times’ sister paper, 60 of Van Gogh’s works, including nine self-portraits, will be on…
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East Asia
Who copied who?
Apple’s copycat argument against Samsung faces backlash Ever since the patent war between Samsung and Apple began, the simplest but most controversial issue at the legal battle has been whether the Korean firm’s Galaxy series copied features of the U.S. tech giant’s i-branded devices. Courts, as well as legal experts,…
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East Asia
Naro space rocket launch reset for mid-Nov.
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) said Monday that it will make its third attempt to launch the Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV-1), colloquially called Naro, sometime between Nov. 9 and 24 following Friday’s cancellation. It opened a launch review committee with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and…
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South East Asia
[The AsiaN Video for Indonesian] Samsung akan Mengajukan Banding Terhadap ITC
Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Berikut adalah berita mengenai persetueruan hak paten antara Apple dan Samsung yang teus berlanjut. Samsung Elektronik mengatakan pada Kamis, 26 Oktober bahwa mereka akan mengajukan kasasi atas putusan sebelumnya oleh Komisi Perdagangan US yang memenangkan klaim Apple atas pelanggaran hak paten. Langkah ini diambil…
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West Asia
Lybian People Still Struggle To Overcome Legacy Of Dictatorship Celebrating 1st Anniversary Of Gadhafi’s Fall
In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, armed militiamen acting as security rush towards protesters shaking the gates to the compound of Libya’s parliament in Tripoli, Libya. One year on, the country is still trying to overcome the legacy of one of the most erratic leaders of modern times as…
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South East Asia
Vietnamese Father, Daughter Living In America Take Part In Project To Preserve Stories Of Vietnamese-Americans
In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 photo, Viola Van poses for a picture with her father, Hugo, at their home in Walnut, Calif. Viola Van is part of a Vietnamese-American Oral History Project at UC Irvine, that assembles, preserves, digitizes, and disseminates the life stories of Vietnamese-Americans in Southern California.…
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South East Asia
Muslims, Displaced By Recent Muslim-Buddhist Violent Clash In Myanmar, Live In Refugee Camp
Muslim refugees react to a photographer at Baw Du Pha refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Victims of Myanmar’s latest explosion of Muslim-Buddhist violence fled to already packed displacement camps along the country’s western coast Sunday, with a top U.N. official saying the unrest…
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East Asia
Citizens In Ningbo City, China, Refuse To Disperse Despite Gov’t Promise Not To Expand Local Petrochmical Factory
A road sweeper cleans up near Chinese paramilitary police after protesters were forced to leave the area outside the city government office in Zhejiang province’s Ningbo city, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. After a weekend of protests by thousands of citizens over pollution fears, a local Chinese government relented Sunday and…
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