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Survey result: Majority of Koreans view Lee’s visit to Dokdo positively
Some 26 percent of those polled to assess President Lee Myung-bak’s duty performance in the third week of August (13th – 17th) were learned to have assessed positively. It was 6 percent higher than that of the positive repliers in previous week, according to recent survey conducted by Gallup Korea. The…
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West Asia
Victims Killed By Syrian Gov’t Forces Being Buried
This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, purports to show victims killed by shabiha pro-government militiamen being buried in a mass grave in Daraya, Syria. According to activists’ accounts, government forces retook the Damascus suburb of Daraya from rebel control three…
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East Asia
NK Leaders Remember Start Of Military First Policy
Photo released by KCNA news agency on Aug. 26, 2012 shows top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un (6th L, front row) watching a performance by the Moranbong Band to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of “The August 25”, which commemorates the late leader Kim…
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East Asia
Strong Typhoon Threatens Korea, Japan, China
High waves pound seawall in Yonabarucho, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, Sunday afternoon, Aug. 26, 2012. Residents were being told to stay indoors and warned wind gusts from the strongest typhoon to approach Okinawa in several years could overturn cars and cause waves of up to 12 meters (40 feet) on…
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Society
Actor Song remains calm on Japan’s entry denial
Hallyu actor Song Il-gook responded matter-of-factly to a senior Japanese official’s comment that he may not be allowed to enter Japan. Appearing on a cable network Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi said that it’s regrettable but Song may find it difficult to visit Japan in the future because…
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Society
EU invites Koreans to apply for unique scholarship
When Suh Sim-eun, a former research officer at the Global Green Growth Institute, studied environmental studies, her classrooms were scattered across Europe: Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Denmark. When not working, she made time to study Spanish or crossed a border into another country for the weekend. “Mobility was…
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Society
KR to lead global railway market
Korea Rail Network Authority (KR), the state-run railway builder and maintenance manager, is stepping up efforts to share its knowhow with developing countries as trains have emerged as a preferred, sustainable means of transportation across the world. It has offered China and other developing economies construction supervision and consulting management…
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US fence-sitting on Dokdo row
NEW YORK — Korea-Japan relations are getting rockier by the day, with stories about the bilateral standoff starting to take up more space, more often in U.S. print, television and online news. Not surprisingly, Washington is sitting on the fence over the intensifying territorial feud between its two most important…
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IT-Science
Did Steve Jobs dupe us all?
Set aside all the hanky panky about the U.S. jury’s $1.05 bil. verdict in favor of Apple over Samsung Electronics in their patent dispute. The real issue is whether the framework of the century-old patent laws, which served as the basis for the San Jose decision, has outlived its essential…
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East Asia
Taoli Cup Dance Competition Held In China
Dancers perform during the dancing competition Taoli Cup in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui province, Aug. 25, 2012. Taoli Cup is the highest level teenager dancing competition held by China’s Ministry of Culture in a bid to select talented dancers. <Xinhua=Zhang Rui> news@theasian.asia
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