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[Online Predators] Online reviews of sex tourism in Southeast Asia proliferate
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Pikki Pikki dance: Korean cheerleader dance routine takes social media by storm
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Middle East’s big AI push lures Korean tech firms
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[Herald Review] 'Culinary Class Wars': fresh, creative survival show minus the drama
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Man arrested 16 years after murdering girlfriend, hiding body in cement
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[Exclusive] Democratic Party of Korea forms US election task force
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[Grace Kao] NewJeans fights Hybe for their survival
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NK nuclear test 'possible' around US election in Nov., says Yoon aide
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[News Focus] Ex-Moon aide slammed from both sides over remarks on leaving Koreas divided
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What will Yoon, Han talk about at dinner?
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Tom Waits, his wife, John Prine receive songwriting awards
BOSTON (AP) -- Luminaries from the film, music and writing worlds honored Tom Waits and folk singer John Prine for their songwriting at the Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Awards on Monday.Waits’ wife, Kathleen Brennan, also was honored. John Mellencamp, Elvis Costello and Roseanne Cash took turns performing renditions of the artists’ songs before a crowd of more than 500 people at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.Mellencamp opened the ceremony with an a cappella version of
PerformanceSept. 20, 2016
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Chinese film festival pushes for end to gender inequality
BEIJING (AP) -- In films, women and girls are much more likely to take off their clothes than male actors and to be scantily clad in the first place, studies show. Less than a third of speaking characters are female and men outnumber women behind the camera by a ratio of 5 to 1. Campaigners are highlighting this gender inequality in film at the China Women’s Film Festival that runs until Sunday in Beijing, arguing that the phenomenon distorts views of women and the world, and that the male-domin
FilmSept. 20, 2016
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London Fashion Week hits climax with Burberry, Erdem
LONDON (AP) -- Luxury British fashion house Burberry unveiled its highly anticipated display at London Fashion Week on Monday, an opulent affair featuring frilly blouses, velvet blazers and silky pajama shirts -- for both men and women. Elsewhere, Christopher Kane and Erdem were among designers showing off their newest collections to the fashion pack before they jet off to Milan. Some highlights from day four of fashion week:Post-gender opulence at BurberrySoaring live orchestral music, opera si
Arts & DesignSept. 20, 2016
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'Organic architect' finds inspiration in snakes and peanuts
NAUCALPAN, Mexico (AP) -- Architect Javier Senosiain looks out over his sinuous snake’s nest of a building, which seems to writhe amid a green and tranquil vista on the very edge of Mexico City’s urban sprawl, and reflects on over 30 years of building egg- and cocoon-like dwellings that are quite literally out of the box.“When a child is born we put him an incubator, which is a box,” said Senosiain, 68. “Then we put him (in) a playpen. The child is placed in a succession of boxes throughout his
Arts & DesignSept. 20, 2016
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Project details impact of 1970s counterculture on Vermont
MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) -- Vermont in the 1970s was a hotbed for the counterculture, and the influx of young people had a lasting influence on the state’s politics, agriculture and food and offbeat culture.After two years of research, the Vermont Historical Society’s exhibit “Freaks, Radicals & Hippies: Counterculture in the 1970s in Vermont” opens at the Vermont History Center in Barre on Sept. 24.“We quickly realized it was more than just getting back to the land and living on a commune and h
CultureSept. 20, 2016
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Citibank Korea launches new wealth management platform
Citibank Korea launched a comprehensive wealth management advisory system called Total Wealth Advisor to provide quality service for asset management, the bank said Tuesday. Citibank Korea’s new service enables the bank’s relationship managers and portfolio counselors to provide financial goal planning and investment asset management services for customers through a systematic and standardized process, the bank said. Citibank Korea officials provide a customer with an asset management service.
Sept. 20, 2016