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East Asia
Smart payment service
KT develops MoCa to beat Google in mobile payment KT introduced a new service called MoCa Wednesday in a bid to beat Google in the smart mobile payment service market. The new service comes as KT, Korea’s No. 2 mobile carrier after SK Telecom and leading broadband operator, has made…
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East Asia
Samsung heir prompted to vice chairman
Samsung Group promoted Lee Jay-yong, the only son of the group leader Lee Kun-hee, to vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, its flagship affiliate, Wednesday. The promotion comes two years after the 44-year-old chief operating officer (COO) was promoted to president at the world’s largest manufacturer of computer memory chips and…
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West Asia
Street Newsstands In Cairo Filled With Only State-Owned Newspapers
An Egyptian walks past a stand displaying state-owned newspapers in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. Most independent Egyptian newspapers suspended publication of Tuesday’s edition in protest over the hurried drafting of the country’s new constitution adopted by an Islamist-led panel. The media protest involved at least eight influential dailies…
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East Asia
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Pays An Official Visit To Kyrgyzstan
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) meets with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, Dec. 4, 2012. Wen Jiabao arrived here Tuesday to attend the 11th prime ministers’ meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and pay an official visit to Kyrgyzstan. <Xinhua/Xie Huanchi> Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao…
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Allies may sanction N. Korea
North Korea notified nearby countries and an international agency of the trajectory of its planned long-range rocket launch this month, Tuesday, as South Korea sought consultations on how best to handle its neighbor’s actions. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) said that Pyongyang stated that the launch slated from Dec. 10…
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East Asia
Ban Ki-moon Speaks In Opening Of UN Climate Change Conference
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the opening session of the high-level segment of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar, on Dec. 4, 2012. UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres speaks during the opening session of the high-level segment of the…
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East Asia
Seoul to ditch US missile purchase
Seoul is considering eliminating a U.S. defense giant from its possible bidders for the purchase of 177 long-range air-to-surface cruise missiles due to Washington’s continued delay in issuing an export license, multiple sources said Tuesday. Korea has repeatedly expressed interest in the purchase of the Lockheed Martin’s the Joint Air-to-Surface…
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East Asia
Rotten Vegetable Leaves Turned Into Food For Insects In China
Workers sort mealworms at a feedlot breeding insects in Lijiazhuang Village, Yuzhong County of northwest China’s Gansu Province, Dec. 4, 2012. A worker tries dried mealworms at a feedlot breeding insects in Lijiazhuang Village, Yuzhong County of northwest China’s Gansu Province, Dec. 4, 2012. The feedlot was set up in…
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East Asia
Candidates aim to win ‘midfield’ battle
Conservative Park continues to lead, but Moon hangs within striking distance Let’s get one thing out of the way: Korea probably won’t see its version of Nate Silver in this presidential election and maybe not in the next. The idea of a poker player-turned-political forecaster winning fame after predicting the…
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