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Ahn calls off talks on single candidacy

Moon says misunderstanding can be resolved The campaign team of independent presidential hopeful Ahn Cheol-soo called off negotiations over merging candidacies with Democratic United Party (DUP) contender Moon Jae-in Wednesday, accusing the opposition party of spreading false rumors to gain advantage in the competition. The two candidates have been in…
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Retail war deepens

Lotte plans to build giant outlet in Busan The country’s two largest retail giants will face off again in Busan. Lotte, the biggest retail chain, and its major rival Shinsegae have engaged in fierce competition for years to gain the biggest slice in industries such as department stores, discount stores…
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Samsung plans not to sell Google TV in Korea

Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that it has no plans to sell sets supporting Google’s Web TV service in Korea. The move came as the TV service has received a lukewarm response in key markets such as Europe. “We got less attention for our Google TVs in Europe. Samsung doesn’t have…
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East Asia

奥巴马-勿忘“苏丹﹒哈桑”清真寺

大家好我是王璇，今天的亚洲新闻又同您见面了。今天要为您介绍一则来自埃及记者对奥巴马当选的评论。评论指出，2009年夏天受到众多埃及人崇拜的美国总统奥巴马，在其访问开罗大学的途中拜访了苏丹哈桑清真寺。在那里，他面向整个穆斯林世界发表了极为重要的讲话。对于许多人来说，奥巴马最初被认为是唯一的一个可以为阿拉伯人和穆斯林世界争取机会的西方领导人。奥巴马家庭背景复杂，他有一个来自非洲血统的祖父，一个具有着浓厚穆斯林文化背景的家庭。因此他被看作成能够解决不同种族、少数民族、弱势群体、贫困阶级等等社会问题的唯一希望。但是不久梦想破碎，人们没有看到和平进程，只有接连不断的战火，以及对权力的狂热。在奥巴马的牵引下，美国成为了仇恨和世界权利的中心。不论是奥巴马还是罗布尼，他们在竞选的过程中迫不及待地宣布了对以色列所提出要求的支持，这就意味着，拒绝了1948年以来巴勒斯坦人们寻求以和平方式解决中东问题的期待。现在，奥巴马再度入主白宫，但是却留给世界战火和不公。如果说四年以前，人们寄希望于一名黑人总统的当下可以改变世界，那么现在世界更加需要用下一个四年来实现中东更美好的未来。今天的播报就到这里，当然还欢迎您点击我们的网站，浏览我们为您准备的其他内容。我们的网站是 http://cn.theasian.asia/archives/11336 谢谢您的收看，我们下次再见
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East Asia

Xi Jinping, Other Newly Elected Chinese Communist Party Leaders Hold Their First Press Conference

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), speaks at the press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 15, 2012. Xi led the newly elected members of the Standing Committee of the 18th CPC Central…
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Seoul seeks smoking ban in all public facilities

Smoking may be banned in all restaurants and public facilities in the nation’s capital by 2020, as Seoul City seeks to make the metropolis smoke-free. The city government said Monday that it will seek to ban smoking at all indoor public facilities in an effort to reduce the smoking rate…
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2 testify to Sakhalin massacre by Japanese

The government has secured testimony from two ethnic Koreans living on Sakhalin Island, off Russia’s east coast, that Japanese soldiers massacred Koreans there at the end of World War II. It is the first testimony to provide details of a massacre allegedly perpetrated by the Japanese army on the island,…
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East Asia

First lady submits statement to independent counsel

An independent counsel may bring criminal charges against seven or eight people, including President Lee Myung-bak’s son, for their involvement in a property scandal over a now-scrapped retirement home project for the president, according to sources Tuesday. First lady Kim Yoon-ok turned in a statement over her alleged role in…
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East Asia

Obama to support Seoul’s N. Korea engagement policy

U.S. President Barack Obama is likely to cooperate tightly with the next Seoul administration on efforts toward eventual unification of the peninsula, a former U.S. envoy said Tuesday. The remark from James Steinberg, deputy secretary of state under Obama from 2009 to 2011, came as South Korean presidential candidates say…
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East Asia

Expat life in Kuwait

Canadian native, David Yorston, one time English teacher in Korea took the opportunity of a lifetime to go back to his former profession, civil engineer. Accepting an offer from a Korean company, he found himself stationed in the oil rich State of Kuwait. Now back in Korea, Yorsten spoke with…
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