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Security on Korean Peninsula worsens sharply in Q2: think tank

Security on the Korean Peninsula worsened in the second quarter of the year to one of the lowest levels in recent years, a report showed Wednesday, as North Korea launched a long-range rocket and escalated belligerent rhetoric against the South.The Samsung Economic Research Institute said in a report that its Korean Peninsula Security Index (KPSI), which is calculated based on a survey of about 40

Defense June 6, 2012

Vietnamese catch 50-kg dragon fish

(Viet Nam News)Two people in southern Vinh Long Province caught a 1.7-meter long dragon fish weighing nearly 50 kilos in the Hau River, near the Ninh Kieu pier in Can Tho City on Wednesday.After catching the fish, they killed it and prepared it for sale, not thinking to preserve it as an ornamental trophy.The dragon fish was subsequently buried in Ba Chua Xu Temple yesterday, attracting large crow

Technology June 6, 2012

[단독]한국의 고급차, 미국서 인기폭발! 그 비결은?

현대자동차가 지난 5월 미국 대형차 시장에서 역대 최고 판매량인 5천232대를 달성했다고 수요일 코리아헤럴드에 밝혔다. 에쿠스, 제네시스(제네시스 쿠페 포함), 그랜저 등의 고급차종의 판매가 5천대를 돌파한 것은 이번이 처음이고 이는 지난 1월 2천600대에 비해 두배가량 증가한 수치다. 현대차 관계자는 브랜드이미지 고급화전략이 북미시장에서 성공적으로 안착해가고 있다며 향후 중소형라인에서뿐 아니라 대형차 부문에서의 선전을 전망했다. 이는 또한 최근 일본 업체들이 부진을 만회하고자 인센티브를 크게 늘려 수익성 하락을 보이고 있는 것과 크게 대비되는 전략이라 업계의 주목을 받고 있다. (코리아헤럴드 이지윤, 정주원 기자) Hyundai’s premium cars post record sales in U.S.H

Podcast June 6, 2012

Trading volume in S. Korean stock market drops sharply amid

South Korea's stock market has seen trading volume and market capitalization plunge as investor sentiment worsened with the U.S. and Chinese economies showing signs of slowing down amid the eurozone financial crisis, market watchers said Wednesday.The benchmark KOSPI market's capitalization has dropped to 1,061 trillion won ($898 billion) as of May 31, a level similar to August last year. The seco

June 6, 2012

Paraguay's president recognizes another love-child

Paraguay's president and former priest Fernando Lugo has recognized a second love-child. This time it's a 10-year-old boy, born to a nurse in the northern state where Lugo served as a Catholic bishop before renouncing the priesthood and turning to politics. Lugo's lawyer, Marcos Farina, says the president has told him to file the paperwork needed to change the boy's last name to Lugo. His mother i

World News June 6, 2012

Google buys maker of Quickoffice mobile app

Google is escalating its rivalry with Microsoft with the purchase of Quickoffice, the maker of a widely used mobile application for working on documents created in Microsoft's programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.The deal announced Tuesday gives Google Inc. a new weapon to foil Microsoft Corp. as more people get work done on smartphones and tablet computers. Quickoffice mak

Industry June 6, 2012

U.S. to sell $325 million of advanced weapons to Korea

The United States is in the process of selling hundreds of cutting-edge weapons to South Korea, a deal expected to be worth $325 million, according to a defense agency here.The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said it has notified Congress of possible sales to South Korea of 367 cluster bombs and associated parts, equipment, logistical support and training. The bombs, formally the sensor-fuzed

Defense June 6, 2012

Eyes turn skyward as Venus travels across the sun

Venus moves in front of the sun on Wednesday. (Yonhap News)None of us will likely see Venus pass, like a moving beauty spot, across the face of the sun again.From the U.S. to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the rare sight of the transit of Venus. The next one won't be for another 105 year

Culture June 6, 2012

Eyes turn skyward as Venus travels across the sun

Scientists: Dinosaurs lighter than thought

(AFP)British scientists say their new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs shows they were not as heavy as previously thought.University of Manchester biologists used lasers to determine the minimum amount of skin required to wrap around the skeletons of modern-day mammals, then applied the technique to a giant Brachiosaur skeleton in a Berlin museum.While previous esti

Technology June 6, 2012

Scientists: Dinosaurs lighter than thought

Al-Qaida No. 2 dies in US drone strike in Pakistan

A U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan has killed al-Qaida's second-in-command, officials from both countries confirmed Tuesday, the most significant victory so far in the controversial bombing campaign and the biggest setback to the terror network since the death of Osama bin Laden.Abu Yahya al-Libi was considered a media-savvy, charismatic leader with religious credentials who was helping pre

World News June 6, 2012

Mom charged for leaving baby on car top

A young mother was arrested in Phoenix Saturday after allegedly leaving her baby strapped in a car seat on the roof of her car and driving off, police said.(MCT)The 5-week-old baby was found in the car seat in the middle of a road about 1 a.m. by city fire department officials, who took the infant to a hospital, The Arizona Republic reported. The child was "perfectly OK," police Officer James Holm

Social Affairs June 5, 2012

Head of Korea Savings Bank arrested for embezzlement

The chairman of the troubled Korea Savings Bank was arrested Tuesday on charges of embezzlement and stealing bank funds as part of a probe into alleged irregularities by suspended savings banks, prosecutors said. Yoon Hyun-soo, 59, was accused of issuing some 150 billion won ($127.6 million) in illegal loans to a subsidiary of Taihan Electric Wire Co. and embezzling an unspecified amount of bank f

Industry June 5, 2012

Titanic locket's owner may have been maid

A Pennsylvania family who obtained a locket believed to have belonged to a Titanic survivor said they may have identified the original owner.Betty and Buz Carbone of Hempfield said their son bought the locket, which bears the letters "AMA" or "AWA" in intricate script, from an antiques dealer about 15 years ago and they now believe the item originally belonged to Annie Moore Ward of Philadelphia,

Culture June 5, 2012

Libyan government retakes Tripoli airport

Libya's government has retaken control of the country's main airport from disgruntled militiamen who stormed the Tripoli site with heavy machine guns and armored vehicles on Monday, Libya's interim leader said.In an interview with the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera, the head of the country's National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, said the airport was attacked and held for several

World News June 5, 2012

Canadian body parts suspect arrested in Berlin

A Canadian porn actor suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student and mailing his body parts to Canada's top political parties was reading about himself on the Internet when he was arrested Monday at a cafe in Berlin. Canadian investigators say 29-year-old Luka Magnotta's obsessions led him to post Internet videos of his killing kittens, then a man, and finally to his arrest at the c

World News June 5, 2012

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