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East Asia
Culture veteran to hold the pansori contest in Paris
A culture veteran is initiating a drive to globally spread Korean traditional music “pansori” by holding a contest in Paris, France, sometime in June. Pansori is a Korean style narrative song, in which a single performer accompanied by a drummer sings a story. Lee In-gweon, CEO of the Sori Art…
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Society
French Soldiers Prepare To Advance To Mali’s Northen Region To Help Retake The Area From Islamist Rebels
This photo provided by the ECPAD/French Army shows a Rafale jetfighter flying over Mali, Tuesday, Jan.15, 2013. Islamists in Mali on Wednesday prevented residents from leaving the towns they are holding, and some fear they will be used as human targets by the extremists as French troops pressed forward to…
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West Asia
Kurdish People Mourn At Ceremony For Three Kurdish Women Shot Dead In Paris
Kurdish people pay tribute to the three activists during a memorial ceremony, in Villiers le Bel, north of Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, before their bodies are sent to Turkey for burial. Three Kurdish women were shot dead at a pro-Kurdish center in Paris on Thursday Jan. 10, in what…
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The world in 2030
CAMBRIDGE ― What will the world look like two decades from now? Obviously, nobody knows, but some things are more likely than others. Companies and governments have to make informed guesses, because some of their investments today will last longer than 20 years. In December, the United States National Intelligence…
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East Asia
America’s adoption reality
In 2010, 98 children were sent from Korea to Canada for adoption, making Korea the seventh-largest supplier of children to Canada. China was the largest supplier, with 472 children sent, followed by Haiti with 172. And can you guess who the third-largest supplier was? It was the United States, which…
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East Asia
Will the US Pivot Trigger a New Regional Arms Race?
*Author, Richard A. Bitzinger is Senior Fellow with the Military Transformations Program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Formerly with the RAND Corp. and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, he has been writing on Asian defense and military issues for more…
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Illegally adopted baby to return home from US
A seven-month old Korean-born baby illegally adopted by an American couple and currently at the center of a legal dispute is likely to return home. The Circuit Court of Cook County in Illinois, which initially granted the couple the right to take care of the child in November, nullified its…
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South Asia
Senior Officials Of BRICS Countries Meet To Discuss Security Issues In New Delhi
Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo (3rd L) meets with Dr.S Cwele, Minister of State Security of South Africa, in New Delhi,India,Jan 10, 2013. Senior officials of the BRICS countries met in New Delhi Thursday for the Third Meeting of BRICS High Representatives for Security Issues. (L-R) Brazil National Security Advisor,…
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East Asia
Liu Yunshan Talks With Head Of Portuguese Socialist Party In Beijing
Liu Yunshan (R), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, shakes hands with Maria de Belem Roseira, president of the Socialist Party of Portugal, in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 10, 2013. Liu Yunshan (2nd R), a member…
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East Asia
Googling sedition in N. Korea
The visit of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to North Korea this week raises intriguing questions about internet usage there to which we may not get real answers for a long time. Belatedly, North Korea has had to open access to the Internet to highly select elite that includes students at…
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