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West Asia
Jordan’s Parliamentary Election Held For The First Time After Last Year’s Contitutional Amendment
A Jordanian woman casts her vote at a polling station during the first hours of the Jordanian Parliamentary elections, in Al-Salt, Jordan, Wednesday Jan. 23, 2013. Jordan’s monarchy has touted Wednesday’s parliamentary election as a watershed in the kingdom’s democratization. It is the first after last year’s constitutional amendments that…
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‘Xi opposes NK nuke development’
BEIJING — Xi Jinping, China’s Communist Party chief, said Wednesday he opposes the development of nuclear weapons by North Korea, according to an envoy dispatched by President-elect Park Geun-hye. Xi made the remark in a meeting with a special delegation headed by Park confidant Kim Moo-sung, during which the sides…
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China backs action against NK
UN Resolution 2087 expected to tighten noose on Pyongyang United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2087, adopted Wednesday following North Korea’s latest long-range rocket launch, was made possible with the backing of China, the North’s only ally. The new resolution seeks to beef up the implementation of existing sanctions rather…
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East Asia
Canada: South Korea’s underestimated friend
The head of a Seoul-based group called on the governments of South Korea and Canada to forge a stronger partnership, saying their bilateral relationship is underutilized. Rhee Tshang-chu, president of the Korean Global Foundation (KGF), noted that the significance of this relationship has been understated probably because the two Koreas…
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East Asia
LSIS beats Hyosung to HVDC deal
Electrical component maker LSIS said Wednesday it has acquired advanced technology for an electric power transmission system at the expense of rival Hyosung. Both firms tendered bids to a joint venture between the state-run Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and French energy company Alstom called KEPCO-Alstom Power Electronics Systems (KAPES)…
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Samsung eyes business users, targets RIM
Samsung Electronics has been trading barbs with Apple over intellectual property on mobile Internet devices. The industry foe it really wants to beat, however, is Research in Motion, the Canadian maker of the iconic BlackBerry, according to company sources. As the global market for smartphones and tablets has shaped up…
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East Asia
‘Obama to follow Park on NK’
U.S. President Barack Obama will follow the lead of incoming President Park Geun-hye in handling North Korea, a U.S. expert said, amid concerns over possible provocations by the Kim Jong-un regime. Victor Cha, Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Pyongyang put Washington in a “deep…
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East Asia
NK leader orders foreign-language signs
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s education abroad may be starting to show. During a recent inspection of a hospital, Kim called for signs to be written in other languages, Pyongyang’ s state media reported. While visiting the Taesongsan General Hospital, currently under construction, Kim noted a sign written with Korean…
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East Asia
Imperfect multiculturalism
This is the eighth in a series of letters by experts to President-elect Park Geun-hye. – ED. Dear Madam President-elect, I am from the Philippines and have been living here for four years as wife and mother in a multicultural family. We at the Korean Institute for Healthy Family’s Danuri…
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