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East Asia
Dr. Ra Jeong-chan, Chairman of RNL BIO and Nobel Prize nominee, has developed stem cell therapeutics
Last year(2011), two Koreans were within reach of the Nobel prize. Former Korean President Kim Dae-joong was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But no Korean has ever been awarded an academic Nobel prize. This year, however, Korea had a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. 49…
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East Asia
Traditional Furnitures On Display At Hainan Museum In Haikou, China
A woman takes pictures of a set of traditional furniture in Hainan Museum in Haikou, capital of south China’s Hainan Province, Dec. 27, 2012. Photo taken on Dec. 27, 2012 shows an exhibition hall for “Huaguang Reef No.1 shipwreck” in Hainan Museum in Haikou, capital of south China’s Hainan Province.…
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East Asia
Large Number Of Fishermen Take Part In Ice Fishing Event In Jilin Province, China
Local fishermen drag a huge fishing net out of water during an ice fishing event in the Chagan Lake in Qian Gorlos Mongolian Autonomous County, northeast China’s Jilin Province, Dec. 27, 2012. Local fishermen net fish during an ice fishing event in the Chagan Lake in Qian Gorlos Mongolian Autonomous…
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East Asia
Alittihad, a UAE’s major daily, carries poems of Ko Un, a noted Korean poet
Alittihad, a UAE’s major daily, carries poems of Ko Un, a noted Korean poet. The Arabic version of Ko’s poem was translated by Ashraf Dali, Chief of The AsiaN’s Middle East Bureau. Al-Ittihad (“Union” in Arabic) is an Arabic language newspaper published daily in the United Arab Emirates. The paper was…
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North Koreans Celebrate Birth Centennial Of The Late NK Founder Kim Il-sung
In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 photo, people walk down a street after a large military parade in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square celebrating 100 years since the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. <AP Photo/David Guttenfelder> In this Monday, April 16, 2012 photo, students wave…
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East Asia
Xi Jinping Meets With President Of The 67th UN General Assembly Session In Beijing
Xi Jinping (R), general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with Vuk Jeremic, president of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly, in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 27, 2012. <Xinhua/Ding Lin> Xi Jinping (R), general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)…
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East Asia
Christmas tree in N. Korea
The fuss made by North Korea over the Christmas lights on a steel tower at an observation post overlooking the demilitarized zone reminds me of a similarly lit tree far inside North Korea. It was on the shelf behind the bar of a hotel in the industrial east coast city…
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East Asia
Park Geun-hye must enforce affirmative action
President-elect Park Geun-hye has pledged to recruit highly qualified people for various government posts fairly. According to her, such impartial recruitment is necessary to end the vicious cycle of division and hatred that has haunted South Korea for the past half century. Park’s predecessors have reneged on their promises of…
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‘Inter-Korean summit in 2014,’ ex-unification minister suggests
Park Jae-kyu, 68, president of Kyungnam University and former unification minister, advised the upcoming administration of Park Geun-hye to adopt a “gradual step-by-step” approach to improving relations between the two Koreas. The North Korean expert, in an interview with The Korea Times, Monday, cautioned that a sudden shift from the…
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Kolleen Park joins team
Renowned musical director Kolleen Park was tapped as a member of the Special Committee for Youth of President-elect Park Geun-hye’s transition team, Thursday. According to Park’s chief spokesman Yoon Chang-jung, Park will join the committee set up to tackle youth unemployment and other policy headaches. The 45-year-old artist is a…
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