Hyundai chairman calls for enhancing ‘quality’
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Mong-koo called for the firm’s U.S. factories to improve product quality, Wednesday, so that customers are offered value for money, during an inspection of the automaker’s plant in the United States. The chairman flew to the U.S. on Monday to meet with executives in Los Angeles, where Hyundai’s U.S. sales […]
Nature, music, book at Paju BookSori 2012
Books, nature and music intermingle in this celebration to delight readers, authors and publishers in Paju, the Asian capital of books. Located 30 kilometers north of Seoul, Paju in Gyeonggi Province has recently emerged as the nation’s new center of art and culture with events like the DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival and Heyri Art […]
Online real-name system unconstitutional
The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the Information Communications Law requiring the use of real names online was unconstitutional, setting the stage for scrapping the policy which was implemented in 2007. The court made a unanimous decision that the law violated people’s freedom of speech. A petition filed by “Internet Media Today,” an online media […]
Innocent Smile Of Syrian Refugee Girl Makes People Sad
Syrian girl, Sana Mustafa, 5, who fled her home in Anadan with her family due to fighting between the rebels and the Syrian army, talks with her brother Riyyad, in a school where she and her family took refuge, in Kafar Hamra, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
Syrians With Assad’s Picture Cheer Their Soccer Team In India
Syrians hold photographs of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and cheer their team during an India vs Syria soccer match at the Nehru Cup International Football tournament, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. India won 2-1. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
Myanmar Suspect Under Probe For Killing 13 Chinese
Naw Kham (C), a drug lord suspected of masterminding the murders of 13 Chinese sailors on Oct. 5, 2011, is interrogated by Chinese and Myanmar military and police officers in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Aug. 22, 2012. A team of Myanmar military and police officers arrived Wednesday in Kunming to interrogate Naw […]
A Syrian Refugee Stamps Picture Of Assad
A Syrian man, who fled his home in Anadan due to fighting between the rebels and the Syrian army, steps on a poster showing Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a school where he and his family took refuge, in Kafar Hamra, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
Ice Human Figures Symbolizing Climate Change
Human figures elaborated with ice, integrating the artwork “Monumento Minimo (minimum monument)” of the Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo, are installed in front of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile in the city of Santiago, capital of Chile, August 22, 2012. The artwork “Monumento Minimo”, involves the installation of 1,000 small human figures […]
Donkey Riding At Biblical Reenactment Park In Israel
American tourist Ella uses an iPad while riding a Wi-Fi-outfitted donkey lead by her brother Aaron, in Kfar Kedem, a biblical reenactment park in the village of Hoshaya in the Galilee, northern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. Visitors riding donkeys through the Old Testament landscape can now also surf the web while being transported across […]