• Chinese envoy backs Park’s NK approach

    Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said Friday he supported President-elect Park Geun-hye’s “trust building” approach to Pyongyang, calling it a “very good idea.” “The chronic disease with regard to issues of the Korean Peninsula is a lack of trust,” Zhang said during a forum for businesspeople. “When you are…

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  • Downbeat mood at Cheong Wa Dae

    The presidential transition team has become the “it” beat among reporters these days as power shifts from outgoing President Lee Myung-bak to incoming President Park Geun-hye. The lively, hectic atmosphere at the Korea Banking Institute (KBI), where the transition team is based, stands in stark contrast to the bleak and depressing…

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  • South East Asia

    Scenery In Bagan, Myanmar, Amazing Enough To Be Said Picturesque

    This December 2012 photo shows agriculture and a few of the over 2200 Pagodas found in Bagan, Myanmar. In this December 2012 photo monks pray before eating at the Buddhist Kaleywatawye Monastery in Yangon, Myanmar. This December 2012 photo shows a woman sifting plum seeds used in the manufacture of…

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  • South East Asia

    Gulls Fly To Bang Pu Seaside Resort Near Bangkok To Avoid Cold Weather

    People watch gulls in Bang Pu Seaside Resort of Bang Pu district in Samut Prakarn province near Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 10, 2013. The gulls fly to the resort to avoid cold weather. Gulls are seen in Bang Pu Seaside Resort of Bang Pu district in Samut Prakarn province near Bangkok,…

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  • East Asia

    New Year Decorations Put Up In Street Of Suzhou City, East China

    Citizens walk past the New Year decorations in Suzhou City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Jan. 10, 2013. Tourists pose for photos in front of the New Year decorations in shape of snake in Suzhou City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Jan. 10, 2013. The lunar year 2013 is the “Year of…

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  • East Asia

    China’s One-Child Policy Seen To Change Chinese Society Significantly

    A parent takes photos of her daughter playing the drums at a children’s play area in a shopping mall in Beijing Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. In China, a law generally limits urban families to having just one child. They grow up as the sole focus of doting parents. How does…

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  • Central Asia

    Archbishops Get Together In Tbilisi To Mark 80th Anniversary Of Georgian Orthodox Church

    Archbishop of Constantinople, Patriarch Bartholomew I, left, and Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II, right, talk during their meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. Bartholomew I arrived in Georgia to mark the 80-year anniversary of the Georgian Orthodox Church. <AP/NEWSis>

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  • East Asia

    Junior Lee plays key role in Las Vegas

    LAS VEGAS ― Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jay-yong, the only son of company head Lee Kun-hee, is stepping up efforts to earn his stripes as the next leader of the technology giant. His latest stage was the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where he was seen actively engaging…

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  • East Asia

    With the people

    What is a good slogan for the new government to be led by Park Geun-hye, who will be inaugurated as president on Feb. 25? I suggest that it should be “With the people” in English and in Korean “국민과 같이.” The suggestion comes from my interest in Abraham Lincoln, the…

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  • ‘Be rude to your wife if you want to get a divorce’

    “Sit properly! Where do you think you are that you are twisting your body around?” This is one of the comments made by a judge during a hearing, addressing a person who was facing a certain charge in court. In fact, the Seoul Bar Association said judges make it a…

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