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East Asia
Chinese People Buy Dried Goods On A Shopping Festival For Coming Spring Festival in Yinchuan
Local citizens come to a shopping festival for the coming Spring Festival in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jan. 18, 2013. The 3rd Yinchuan shopping festival for the Spring Festival , which will fall on Feb. 10, 2013, lasts from Jan. 18 to Feb. 4. People…
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East Asia
Moktar Belmoktar Is Leader Of A Militant Group Who Took 41 Foreigners Hostage In Sahara Desert
This image from video provided by the SITE Intel Group made available Thursday Jan. 17, 2013, purports to show militant militia leader Moktar Belmoktar. Algerian officials scrambled Thursday Jan. 17, 2013 for a way to end an armed standoff deep in the Sahara desert with Islamic militants who have taken…
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East Asia
Chocolate Fasion Show Held In Seoul To Promote Salon Du Chocolat Exhibition
A model displays a traditional Korean outfit partially made of chocolate during chocolate fashion show in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. The 4-day event is being promoted as South Korea’s first Salon Du Chocolat exhibition, which has a 20-years history and holding shows in 20 cities. A model…
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East Asia
Japanese And Thai PMs Shake Hands During Press Conference At Gov’t House In Bangkok
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) attend a joint press conference at the Government House in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, Jan. 17, 2013. Shinzo Abe arrived in Bangkok on Thursday for a two-day official visit to Thailand. <Xinhua/Gao Jianjun> Thai Prime Minister Yingluck…
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East Asia
Delegates Of Business Circle From Korea, Japan, China Get Together In Seoul
South Korea’s trade minister Bark Tae-ho (5th L) poses for photos with delegates of business circles from South Korea, China and Japan in Seoul, capital of South Korea, on Jan. 17, 2013. The Seoul-based Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat involving South Korea, China and Japan held a business event Thursday marking the…
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East Asia
‘I’m Korean style’
S-Oil CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher S-Oil CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher is never hesitant in expressing his affection for Korea. Unlike many foreign businesspeople in Korea who only pay lip service to the country and its culture, the Saudi Arabian executive demonstrates his appreciation with his actions. As part of his efforts to…
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East Asia
Visits of the deceased to our dreams
According to many belief systems, dreams often tell our future by presenting images of pre-visional situations or with the appearance of symbolic figures including natural objects. It is not always easy to interpret what they are trying to say. But in certain situations, people notice instinctively what the dream is…
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East Asia
Koreans shouldn’t romanticize ‘Les Miserables’
The movie “Les Miserables,” which was adapted from Victor Hugo’s novel by the same name, has become a hit this year in Korea. The late Hugo might find it puzzling that his fictional work is influencing the Korean society today. About five million Koreans watched the movie. Hugo’s novel, which…
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Oil spill compensation
Moon Seung-il earned his living by running fishing boats for weekend anglers in Taean County along the west coast. On Dec. 7, 2007, a Samsung Heavy Industries barge struck a crude oil tanker passing there, causing the country’s worst oil spill and driving him out of business. Moon filed a…
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East Asia
Japan’s quest for allies
MANILA ― Japan is probing the possibilities of a most improbable alliance in a corner of Southeast Asia that once lay at the heart of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.” The term “co-prosperity” was a euphemism for Imperial Japan’s policy of prospering off impoverished people from Burma through the…
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