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West Asia
Protesters Dance During Demonstration By Thousands Of Iraqi Sunnis In Ramadi, West Of Baghdad
Protesters dance during a demonstration in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Thousands of Iraqi Sunnis massed along a major western highway in a demonstration, intensifying pressure on the Shiite-led government. Protesters chant slogans against Iraq’s Shiite-led government during a demonstration in Ramadi,…
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South Asia
Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Reveals Gov’t Rules In Dealing With Civil Wars
Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, center, gestures as he arrives with Army Commander Lt. Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya for a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Sri Lanka’s military on Thursday asked the government to introduce its own rules to deal with civil wars, saying existing…
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East Asia
Small firms need to overcome Peter Pan Syndrome
Small Korean firms are trapped in what resembles the Peter Pan Syndrome or Dwarf Syndrome, where adults do not want or feel unprepared to grow up. In the Korean economy, this tendency can be seen among small- and medium-sized firms that fear to become large companies. Since the 1980s, the…
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The new old year
NEW YORK ― Any look back at 2012 would necessarily focus on three parts of the world: the eurozone, with its seemingly endless financial uncertainties; the Middle East, with its many upheavals, including, but hardly limited to, the Muslim Brotherhood’s accession to power in Egypt and Syria’s savage civil war,…
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East Asia
Park bets on safe PM choice
Transition team chairman Kim Yong-jun nominated President-elect Park Geun-hye trumped all guesses Thursday and named her transition team Chairman Kim Yong-jun as her nominee for the first prime minister of her inaugural Cabinet. Kim, 75, headed the Constitutional Court and is respected for overcoming a physical handicap. But the beauty…
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East Asia
President’s brother gets two years
Rep. Chung jailed in court for aiding in illegal campaign fundraising The Seoul Central District Court sentenced President Lee Myung-bak’s elder brother-cum-political mentor Lee Sang-deuk to two years in prison Thursday on charges of taking illegal political funds from businesses during the 2007 presidential race. The court also ordered him…
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East Asia
Korean ‘Paul Potts’ will go to college next month
Korea’s Paul Potts, Choi Sung-bong, will enter college next month. Choi was the runner-up in Korea’s Got Talent in 2011, a local version of the audition program Britain’s Got Talent. He will enter as a freshman at the Department of Culture and Arts Management at Kyung Hee Cyber University. The…
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East Asia
Do names influence our destiny?
“Do I have to change my name?” This is one of the questions I am asked most frequently when a saju reading foretells misfortune. Many people tell me that they have already changed their name upon advice from other fortune tellers. Some of them say they benefit from the new…
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East Asia
Uncomfortable truth about Korean society
This new film ““Namjjogeuro Tur” by Lim Soon-rye is a classical example of political bias; it is a significant reminder of trumpeting anxieties that were prevelant last year in Gangjeong village on Korea’s southernmost major island, Jeju. This 121-minute film produced by director Lim, who is best known for “Forever…
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East Asia
Collective creativity at Concept Korea
Concept Korea, a collaboration to promote Korean fashion in the U.S., will feature five of the most innovative and promising Korean designers at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York next month. Here is a preview of Concept Korea 2013, to be held under the theme “Rhythm of Korea” on…
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