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Society
G20 Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors Meeting Opens In Mexico City
(From L to R) Jose Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for the Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena, Mexico’s Finance Minister, Jim Yong Kim, presidente of the World Bank, pose for a photo during the event titled “Increasing financial resilience through Disaster Risk Management” within the…
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South East Asia
Filipinos Including Those With Hearing Disability March Street Asking Congress To Declare Filipino Sign Language As National Sign Language
Protesters, some of whom are persons with hearing disability, march towards the Philippine Congress to call for the passage of a bill “Declaring Filipino Sign Language as the National Sign Language of the Filipino Deaf” and the official language of the Philippine Government in all transactions involving the deaf at…
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South East Asia
Ninth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit Opens In Vientiane, Laos, Amid Attendance Of Leaders From Asia, Europe
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C front) attends the opening ceremony of the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in Lao capital of Vientiane on Nov. 5, 2012. The opening ceremony of the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit is held in Lao capital of Vientiane on Nov. 5, 2012. Chinese Premier Wen…
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South Asia
Pakistani Students Attend Class Amid Gov’t Effort To Raise Literacy Rate To 60 Percent By 2015
Pakistani students attend a class at a public school in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta on Nov. 5, 2012. Pakistan ranks 113th among 120 countries regarding literacy rate, which is projected to reach 60 percent till 2015 from the existing 55 percent. <Xinhua/Iqbal Hussain>
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East Asia
Park willing to talk with NK leader
Rep. Park Geun-hye, the presidential candidate of the ruling Saenuri Party, said Monday that if elected, she was willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un without any conditions. But Park stood firm against North Korea’s bellicose attacks on South Korea’s sovereignty and territory, such as crossing the Northern Limit…
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East Asia
Foreign students at SNU up 27%
The number of foreign students at Seoul National University (SNU) has increased by more than 20 percent in three years, the school said Monday. According to the office of international affairs at the state-run university, there were 2,401 foreign students enrolled as of October, up 27 percent from 1,891 in…
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East Asia
Special prosecutor to question first lady
First lady Kim Yoon-ok will be questioned by the special prosecutor’s team over a controversial property deal for the first family’s now-scrapped retirement home project. A decision on when and how to question Kim will be made soon. Assistant special counsel Lee Chang-hoon said Monday that the team has decided…
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East Asia
‘Dancing together’ with Dokdo issue
This is the 13th in a series of contributed articles by international and Korean experts shedding light on Japan’s claim to Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo and other affairs that illustrate Japan’s lack of remorse over misdeeds it has committed. ― ED “Dancing together” is a skill of diplomacy that…
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A narrower divide
Living in North Korea, Lee Gwang-cheol’s family background gave him advantages that normal citizens could never dream of. After he defected to the South in 1997, and these privileges were stripped away, he vowed never to take any opportunity for granted. Lee says his grandfather was an anti-Japanese guerilla who…
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West Asia
Emirates Formula One Grand Prix Held At Yas Marina Racetrack In Abu Dhabi, UAE
McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain leads Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland, Williams driver Pastor Maldonado of Venezuela and Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso of Spain, during the Emirates Formula One Grand Prix, at the Yas Marina racetrack, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. <AP…
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