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East Asia
Canadian boarding school opens on Jeju
Branksome Hall Asia (BHA) will play a key role in cultivating successful young female leaders, said the principal of the prestigious Canadian girls’ school’s first overseas campus on Jeju Island. “We will inspire students to find their own remarkable talents, empower them to make their dreams become realities, and compel…
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East Asia
Security Council carousel
UNITED NATIONS ― It’s the annual diplomatic ritual when the 193-member U.N. General Assembly elects five of its members to serve for two-year stints on the powerful Security Council. As can be imagined, the competition is intense to gain real political power and the global limelight on the 15-member Council.…
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IT-Science
Group Shot Of Microsoft’s Early Founders In Display At Room Where Some 2,000 Developers Are Set To Hold Conference
The now-famous group shot of some of the early founders of Microsoft Corp., including Bill Gates, lower left, and Paul Allen, lower right, is displayed, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in a room showcasing the latest devices to run the Windows 8 operating system, in Redmond, Wash. More than 2,000 app…
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South East Asia
Indonesian President Visiting Britain Invited By Queen Elizabeth To Buckingham Palace
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, and his wife Ani Bambang Yudhoyono , second left, pose for a photograph with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, centre right and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, left, in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace, in London, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, ahead of a state…
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Society
Yellow Cabs In Flooded Parking Lot Come To Surface As Superstorm Sandy Recede
A parking lot full of yellow cabs that was flooded the day before is now dry as flood waters recede in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. <AP/NEWSis=Charles Sykes>
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South East Asia
[Australia Report] Prime Minister Gillard releases “White Book” on future policy
Amid the anxiousness of super power countries on the changing of global power that is predicted to take place in 20 to 30 years, Australia feels the need to reevaluate its foreign policy. “Foreseeing future is risky, but the bigger risk is the absence of planning our own future. As…
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East Asia
Taiwan’s ‘peace initiative’
While the world’s attention has been focused on the rivalry between China and Japan over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, Taiwan, which has the same territorial claims as China, has come up with what it calls a “peace initiative’’ involving all three parties. On Aug. 5, a month…
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East Asia
Ban accents Korea’s ‘catalyst’ role
UN chief considers trip to North Korea to help promote peace United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for Korea to act as a catalyst on the world stage on U.N. targets such as sustainable development, Tuesday. In a speech to the National Assembly plenary session, Ban, a former South Korean…
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Society
New Yorkers Under Siege Of Superstorm Sandy
Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University’s Tisch Hospital, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. The New York City hospital is moving out more than 200 patients after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm.…
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Asian rivals in US
Washington should be more active judge, arbiter Many Koreans might have felt quite uncomfortable listening to a series of news stories from the United States over the weekend. In New York and New Jersey, some Japanese ultra-rightists ― who else could it be? ― perpetrated acts of vandalism, insulting the…
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