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Politics
USFK offers apology for handcuffing of Koreans
The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) apologized Sunday for the handcuffing of three Korean civilians by American troops during a dispute over parking outside a U.S. Air Force base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. USFK Deputy Ccommander Lt. Gen. Jan-Marc Jouas, said in a news conference, “I have ordered a full investigation…
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Korean-Chinese being targeted for crackdown
130 rounded up in June alone A major crackdown is under way targeting Korean-Chinese here their advocates said Sunday. This could spook them into hiding and lead to a spike in illegal immigrants. Since January, the Ministry of Justice has detained about 1,500 Korean-Chinese laborers who used forged identities to…
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People
Eximbank CEO calls lenders ‘domesticated’
The head of one of the nation’s state-run lenders said that Korean banks should revamp their business models so as to better serve retail customers and play a bigger role in helping Korean companies overseas. He stressed that leading domestic lenders, such as KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Woori and Hana, should…
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Immigration process for investors to be shortened
More foreign investors are expected to enjoy a shortened immigration process from Monday, as the financial authorities in cooperation with the justice ministry plan to expand the scope of beneficiaries of the finance investor express card system. Financial Hub Korea (Fn Hub Korea) said they have revised the system to…
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Galaxy S3 LTE phones to hit shelves Monday
The long-term evolution (LTE) model of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S3 will be available nationwide from Monday. The Suwon-based firm announced Friday its highest quarterly operating profit as of yet of 6.7 trillion won thanks to global sales of the handsets. The three domestic mobile carriers _ SK Telecom, KT and…
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IT-Science
Kakao Story tops Facebook
Kakao Story has topped Facebook to dominate the mobile social network service (SNS) market in Korea only three months after its launch. According to a survey of 13.95 million smartphone users using Google’s Android Operating System (OS) released Thursday by market research agency Nielsen KoreanClick, Kakao Talks’ SNS held 49.1…
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Business
Chaebol bosses’ stock wealth rising
Leading chaebol bosses are combining to make more in the stock market than the gross domestic product (GDP) of Bahrain, according to figures from a local think tank. The report by the Korea CXO Institute shows that the combined value of stocks held by the corporate owners of the country’s…
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Society
A book detailing what happened under Khmer Rouge published in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH — A Cambodian journalist on Thursday launches his new book on the Khmer Rouge aiming to provide the Khmer Rouge Tribunal extra information on the serious child rights violation during the Democratic Kampuchea rule in 1975-79 when some 2 million people died of murder, torture, starvation, sickness, and…
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Society
Post-1990s generation marches into Chinese society
BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese adults have a wide variety of opinions on the “jiulinghou,” or “post-1990s” generation, finding it difficult to understand the unintelligible slang, bizarre hairstyles and erratic behavior of children born after that year. But with the first group of post-1990s kids graduating from Chinese universities…
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柬埔寨爆发不明急性呼吸系统疾病 大家好,我是王璇，今天的 The AsiaN新闻，又同您见面了。 根据“韩国疾病管理本部”7月5日发表的一项关于海外旅游注意事项内容显示，最近在柬埔寨南部地区多发一种原因不明的呼吸系统疾病，导致前来观光的游客死亡。该机关特别提醒游客注意安全预防。 根据世界卫生组织的调查显示，患者多发高热、呼吸系统功能迅速下降，同时伴有整个呼吸系统、神经系统并发衰竭，临床表现明显。从4月份至今已经有61名儿童死于此病。 至今为止仍然无法完全查出发病原因，世界卫生组织同柬埔寨当局以及卫生保健部门正在对病因进行全力调查之中。 此外，韩国相关机构提示：“正值暑假期间，准备外出旅行的游客们最好在出游之前，访问由政府提供的专门网页(travelinfo.cdc.go.kr)，获取注意事项、疾病发生提示，并且适当注意个人卫生防御”，“如果在旅行时间发现类似咳嗽、高热等情况，在归国时应立即通告相应部门和治疗机构，接受治疗”。 当然还是和往常一样，欢迎您点击我们的网站，浏览其他要闻。 我们的网站是 http://cn.theasian.asia/?p=4769 今天就到这里，谢谢您的收看。 news@theasian.asia
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