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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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China’s military to seek more foreign exchanges
BEIJING (AP) ― China said Thursday that its military, under fire for a lack of transparency, will emphasize confidence-building measures and seek more exchanges with foreign militaries.The proposals in a policy white paper issued every two years follow complaints from the United States and other countries that China has not adequately explained the goals of its rapid military expansion in the last
March 31, 2011
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Japan weighs entombing nuclear plant; IAEA sees criticality
(Yonhap News)Japan is considering pouring concrete into its crippled Fukushima atomic plant as the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog agency warned that a potential uncontrolled chain reaction could cause further radiation leaks.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano yesterday ruled out the possibility that the two undamaged reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s six-unit Dai-Ichi plant would be salvag
March 31, 2011
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Low levels of radiation found in US milk
Milk waiting to be tested sit on shelves in a cooler at the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Air and Radiation Environmental Laboratory in Montgomery, Ala. The laboratory has added a few extra contract workers because of the threat from Japan, officials say. (AP-Yonhap News)WASHINGTON (AP) _ Very low levels of radiation turned up in a sample of milk from the West Coast state of Washingto
March 31, 2011
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Japan considers reactor covers
An aerial view of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is seen in Fukushima Prefecture in this photo taken by Air Photo Service on March 24.(AP-Yonhap)SENDAI, Japan (AFP) ― Japan was Wednesday considering plans to drape shattered nuclear reactor buildings with special covers to limit radiation, and pump contaminated water into a tanker.The embattled nation, reeling from the triple calamity
March 30, 2011
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Global rock stars knockin’ on China’s door
SHANGHAI (AFP) ― Bob Dylan’s first China concerts next month could be a sign the times are a-changing as the world’s biggest promoters make a push to bring more international music stars to the mainland.The music legend’s shows in Beijing and Shanghai mark perhaps the biggest international music act in China since the Rolling Stones played Shanghai in 2006 ― and since the global financial crisis r
March 30, 2011
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India and Pakistan to ...cooperate on terror probe
NEW DELHI (AP) ― Pakistan has agreed to host Indian investigators looking into the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks blamed on Pakistan-based militants, the two countries announced Tuesday after talks aimed at building trust between the sides.The agreement in principal was seen a breakthrough after more than two years of impasse over the investigation. India had frozen discussions with Pakistan after the
March 30, 2011
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Israel may annex West Bank’s Jewish settlements
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Israel is considering annexing major West Bank settlement blocs if the Palestinians unilaterally seek world recognition of a state, an Israeli official said Tuesday ― moves that would deal a grave blow to prospects for negotiating a peace deal between the two sides.Israel has refrained from taking such a diplomatically explosive step for four decades. The fact that it is consideri
March 30, 2011
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Biggest spike in radiation at Japan power plant
TOKYO (AP) _ Seawater outside the hobbled nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan was found to contain 3,335 times the usual amount of radioactive iodine _ the highest rate yet and a sign that more contaminated water was making its way into the ocean, officials said Wednesday. The amount of iodine-131 found offshore some 300 yards (meters) south of the coastal Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant
March 30, 2011
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Indian woman conceives IVF baby using dead husband’s sperm
An Indian woman in England is pregnant with her dead husband’s child five years after her husband died of blood cancer, Times of India reported Tuesday. Anurita, 40, a civil servant in England had IVF (in vitro fertilization) embryos implanted by using samples of sperm left by her deceased husband at the Bavishi Fertility Institute in Ahmedabad, India last February. Her husband, who was an Italian
March 30, 2011
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Plutonium seeps from Japanese nuclear plant
TOKYO (AP) ― Highly toxic plutonium is seeping from the damaged nuclear power plant in Japan’s tsunami disaster zone into the soil outside, officials said Tuesday, further complicating the delicate operation to stabilize the overheated facility.Plutonium has been detected in small amounts at several spots outside the Fukushima Daiichi power plant for the first time, plant operator Tokyo Electric P
March 29, 2011
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Japan’s farmers battle nuclear scare
NIHONMATSU, Japan (AFP) ― Farmers are facing the bitter aftermath of Japan’s nuclear emergency, which could see crops left to rot over a vast swathe of the country’s agricultural heartland.Growing national and international unease about the spread of radioactivity from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has led to bans on the sale of produce from four prefectures.Farmers working the soil i
March 29, 2011
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Blast at Yemen explosives factory kills 78
SANAA, Yemen (AP) _ Yemen officials say 78 people were killed in a blast at an explosives factory after it was briefly taken over by militants and then looted by civilians.Medical and security officials in the southern Abyan province where the blast took place Monday said many women and children from surrounding villages were killed and wounded in the attack.On Sunday, Islamic fundamentalist milit
March 28, 2011
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Seawater radiation may be spreading in Japan
TOKYO (AP) ― Workers at Japan’s damaged nuclear plant raced to pump out contaminated water suspected of sending radioactivity levels soaring as officials warned Monday that radiation seeping from the complex was spreading to seawater and soil. Mounting obstacles, missteps and confusion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex have stymied emergency workers struggling to cool down the overheating p
March 28, 2011
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Matchmaking sites offer new take on ‘arranged’ marriages in Morocco
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AFP) ― Marriage in Morocco has an increasingly changing face these days as young men and women in search of lifetime partners head for the souk, in this case a “cyber” marriage souk.In a country where many marriages are still arranged, a click of a computer mouse will take the Internaut to Soukzouaj, a free site where thousands of lonely hearted young Moroccans look for their soul mates“This marriage site was created in June 2010,” Yasser Nejjar, founder of soukzouaj.ma, tol
March 28, 2011
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(urgent) Yemen ammo factory blast kills 40
ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - A blast at an ammunition factory killed at least 40 people and wounded 90 others near the south Yemeni town of Jaar on Monday, a day after the plant was looted by Al-Qaeda, a local official said.
March 28, 2011
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Syrian army out in force in violence-hit port city
Assad laying out plan to end state of emergency, but decree requires cabinet approvalLATAKIA, Syria (AP) ―Syria’s army was out in force Sunday in a port city scarred by unrest aimed at symbols of the government, which is struggling to put down an unprecedented nationwide outbreak of protest and dissent.President Bashar Assad’s regime has responded by both fatally shooting protesters, and promising
March 28, 2011
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Merkel’s conservatives lose German state ballot
Anti-nuclear Greens soar after Japan disaster, ending CDU’s six-decade grip on powerBERLIN (AP) ― German chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives have suffered a historic defeat in a state ballot after almost six decades in power there, partial results showed Sunday, in an election that amounted to a referendum on the party’s stance on nuclear power.The opposition anti-nuclear Greens doubled their
March 28, 2011
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Japan: Huge radiation spike at nuke was a mistake
TOKYO – Emergency workers struggling to pump contaminated water from Japan's stricken nuclear complex fled from one of the troubled reactors Sunday after reporting a huge increase in radioactivity — a spike that officials later apologetically said was inaccurate.The apology came after employees fled the complex's Unit 2 reactor when a reading showed radiation levels had reached 10 million times hi
March 27, 2011
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Syrian government: 12 killed in seaside city
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The Syrian government says 12 people were killed in violence rocking a seaside Mediterranean city.Syria's state-run news agency said unknown armed elements on Saturday attacked neighborhoods in Latakia, shooting from rooftops and terrorizing people.Ten people, including security forces, residents as well as two members of the shadowy ``armed elements'' died in the violence.S
March 27, 2011
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Libyan rebels sweep west through key oil centers
AL-EGILA, Libya (AP) - Libyan rebels took back a key oil town and pushed westward Sunday toward the capital, seizing momentum from the international airstrikes that tipped the balance away from Moammar Gadhafi's military.Brega, a main oil export terminal in eastern Libya, fell after a skirmish late Saturday and rebel forces moved swiftly west, seizing the tiny desert town of Al-Egila _ a collectio
March 27, 2011