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    A Bangladesh musician says ‘Lylics today fail to touch heart’

    Kabir “Lyrics do not soothe the heart, music is rather noisy” A guitar player with consummate smoothness, Enamul Kabir is a dedicated musician of Bangladesh who has been regarded as the best Hawaiian guitarist of the country for last four decades. The 69-year old courteous man with a smiling face…

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    NK’s move to control Sakhalin Koreans foiled

    The former Soviet Union was home to the world’s fourth largest overseas Korean community. At the time of the break of the Soviet Union in 1991, some 450,000 of its inhabitants were of Korean heritage. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the population of ethnic Koreans was split between…

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  • Unhappy ending for all the king’s men

    If Choi See-joong had ever wondered what his worst day as a public figure would feel like, he definitely found out Monday night. It was just months ago that the 75-year-old former journalist carried himself like one of the most powerful and influential men in Korea that he was. He…

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  • Japan solidifies ties with India

    Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba(L) shakes hands with Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna before addressing a press conference in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 30, 2012. <AP/Newsis> This week, Japan’s Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and his unusually large team, comprising seven other ministers, left New Delhi with a great deal of…

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  • Ban Ki-moon’s Burma road

    United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is on the road to Burma to witness a critical moment in the isolated Southeast Asian state s slow but sure transition to a more open political system which may bring democracy, or could legitimize the long-ruling military regime. Recently, British Prime Minister David…

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  • No sea change for East Sea

    Talk about news of earth-shaking international importance. In Monaco last week, the International Hydrographic Organization ― the body that sets official geographic place names for maps ― rejected Korea’s demand to add “East Sea” alongside “Sea of Japan” when denoting the body of water dividing the nations. The exclusive use…

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    Jim Yong Kim deserves being head of World Bank

    File photo taken on March 23, 2012 shows Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim attending the nomination ceremony as the next president of the World Bank, at the White House in Washington D.C., the United States. <AP/Newsis> On April 16, Jim Yong Kim, President of Dartmouth College, was elected as…

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    Ban Ki-moon’s nostalgic visit to India

    Congress party President Sonia Gandhi, right, shakes hand with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as his wife Yoo Soon-taek, looks on at Gandhi’s residence in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 27, 2012. <AP/Newsis> He came, saw and conquered 1.2-billion Indian hearts. The occasion was Delhi’s Jamia Milia University conferring on this…

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    N. Korea’s verbal threats

    South Koreans have long been accustomed to abusive verbal threats from the North, most of which end in provocative rhetoric. They have also wisely avoided some deadly North Korean provocations from escalating into a major war. However, many people are perplexed about the latest verbal threats. The latest ones came…

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    Violence escalates in major cities of Bangladesh

    Dhaka–With  the political unrest taking  the course of street violence, a wide range of anxiety is spreading quickly among  the  people  at all levels in Bangladesh.  The three-day-long hartal  enforced  by  the opposition BNP  has  demonstrated  the level  of  violence  that left  at least  three persons  killed, hundreds  injured, thousands arrested and  torching  of   a  number  of vehicles…

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