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Shanghai Cooperation Summit kicks off

Shanghai Cooperation Summit kicks off

The leaders of many Asian and Pacific countries arrived to China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Summit in China, June 5, 2012. On the sidelines of the Summit Chinese President Hu Jintao held talks with his Kyrgyz counterpart, Almazbek Atambayev, in Beijing on Tuesday,  raising a five-point proposal on promoting bilateral pragmatic cooperation. Noting that […]

US envoy on North Korea human rights to visit Seoul

US envoy on North Korea human rights to visit Seoul

The United States envoy on North Korean human rights will visit Seoul later this week for talks with South Korean officials amid ongoing humanitarian concerns about the Stalinist state. The trip by Robert King comes amid reports that the human rights situation has deteriorated in recent months and concern from aid groups over reported drought […]

Dispute over rant by DUP’s Lim intensifies

Dispute over rant by DUP’s Lim intensifies

The dispute involving the rant by Rep. Lim Su-kyung of the Democratic United Party (DUP) on North Korean defectors is escalating despite the lawmaker’s apology. Lim, a former pro-North Korean student activist, is drawing fire not only from the ruling Saenuri Party but also from conservative groups as a whole for her abusive remarks. Rep. […]

Kim Doo-gwan to announce presidential bid in July

Kim Doo-gwan to announce presidential bid in July

Kim Doo-gwan Gov. Kim Doo-gwan of South Gyeonsang Province said Monday he is considering running for the presidency and will make a formal announcement in July. “The opposition camp must prevent the conservatives from winning power in the upcoming presidential elections, after they promised to realize regime change,” said Kim in an interview with an […]

UAE to give Yemen food aid worth US$136 million

DUBAI, June 3 (Xinhua) — The president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan approved food aid worth 500 million Dirham (about 136 million U.S. dollars) to help the Yemeni people suffering from a year-long turmoil, local news agency WAM reported Sunday. “The gesture is in line with the brotherly […]

Turkish PM accuses Assad of behaving autocratic

Turkish PM accuses Assad of behaving autocratic

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the Istanbul Conference on Somalia in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 1, 2012. <File Photo=Xinhua/Ma Yan> ANKARA, June 3 (Xinhua) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused on Sunday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of behaving autocratic and harming peace, playing down the recent elections held in Syria. […]

Mubarak given life sentence for killing protesters

The Cairo criminal court has sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak to life imprisonment on Saturday (June 2) as he was declared guilty for deaths of protesters during an uprising in January 2011. Mubarak has been under arrest at the International Medical Center near Cairo. Mubarak, his two sons, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli and six […]

NK’s economic reliance on China increases

North Korea’s trade dependence on China grew by leaps and bounds last year while economic relations with South Korea remain frozen, according to a report released Friday by Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA). In 2011, 89.1 percent of Pyongyang’s total external trade came from its neighboring economic powerhouse China recording $5.6 billion, a 62.4 percent […]

Turkish PM calls world attention to massacred Syrian children

Turkish PM calls world attention to massacred Syrian children

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday called on the world to pay heed to the desperation of families whose children were massacred in Syria. Speaking at a summit of the Alliance of Civilizations, a forum promoting understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds, days after more than 100 people were massacred in Syria’s […]

NK denounces S. Korea’s attempt to expel pro-NK lawmakers

North Korea has condemned Korea’s ruling Saenuri Party for seeking to strip two alleged pro-North Korean lawmakers of their parliamentary seats. “The madcap smear campaign … is nothing but a ‘witch hunt’ of modern version and sordid fascist politically-motivated terrorism,” the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in an English-language statement carried […]

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