• South East Asia

    HIV-Infected People In Myanmar Hard To Get Medication Due To Lack Of Trained Medical Staff

    In this Sept. 1, 2012 photo, an HIV patient rubs his face near a poster showing a sculpture of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi at an HIV/AIDS hospice founded by a member of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy, the country’s opposition party led by Suu Kyi,…

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  • World

    Tunisian Journalists Stage One-Day Strike Calling For More Press Freedom

    Tunisian journalists demonstrate outside the national journalists union to demand more freedom in the press, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 in Tunis. Journalists are on a one-day strike. A gagged Tunisian journalist demonstrates with gag reading “censorship” and banner reading “Press freedom is the basis of democracy”, outside the national journalists…

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  • East Asia

    International Folk Dance Contest Kicks Off In Shanghai, China

    Dancers from New Zealand perform during the Lujiazui Cup, an international folk dance contest, in Shanghai, east China, Oct. 17, 2012. The international folk dance contest started on Wednesday, attracting dancers from 12 countries and regions. Dancers from China’s Guizhou Province perform during the Lujiazui Cup, an international folk dance…

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  • East Asia

    Body Of Late King Sihanouk Returning From China Warmly Welcomed By Grief-Stricken Cambodians In Phnom Penh

    A portrait of Cambodia’s late King Norodom Sihanouk leads the procession of the body of Sihanouk in a casket on a street to the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. The body returned to his homeland on the plane from China on Wednesday, welcomed by tens…

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  • People

    Templestay marks a decade

    Since the templestay program was first introduced ahead of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup in a move to promote traditional Korean Buddhist culture, its popularity has been steadily soaring attracting both local and foreign tourists. In commemorating the 10th anniversary of the program, plans are being put in place to…

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  • East Asia

    Beauty of Goryeo celadon revealed

    From diversely shaped vases to an openwork incense burner supported by three little rabbits, the essence of Goryeo celadon or “cheongja” is on display at the National Museum of Korea (NMK). “The Best under Heaven, the Celadons of Korea” is the first exhibition dedicated to Goryeo celadon at the Nation…

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  • Samsung halts clinical tests for biosimilar

    Samsung Electronics’ aspirations to find a new growth engine in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals appear to have hit a speed bump. Company officials admit that it has halted clinical tests for SAIT101, a material it hoped would create more effective drugs to fight Hodgkin’s disease. “We have been conducting clinical tests…

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  • Welfare and tax increases

    Two key words should be fairness, efficiency Like other emerging economies, Korea is moving toward a welfare state, as shown by the competitive pledges presidential candidates are making for various public services free of charge. The problem is financing, more explicitly money, an inconvenient truth most politicians avoid facing. It…

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  • Column

    Hangeul, a uniquely Korean Script

    It is an immensely positive sign for the nation that a growing number of foreigners are undertaking the study of the Korean language and Hangeul, the Korean alphabet in the wake of “Hallyu” ― the Korean Wave, which refers to the spread of Korean pop culture around the world. Furthermore,…

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  • Tragedy in West Sea

    China must act resolutely to uproot illegal fishing  Another tragedy took place in the West Sea Tuesday and this time, a Chinese fisherman died after being hit by a rubber bullet. It’s sad to continue to see a string of tragic incidents due to illegal fishing by Chinese trawlers in…

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