The Korea Herald

High school student, 83, in baseball finals

Jun 24, 2013

KAWASAKI, Japan (The Japan News) ― An 83-year-old student and member of the baseball team at Takatsu High School pledged to do her best at a Kanagawa prefectural rubber-ball baseball tournament for p...
Terraces cultivate global recognition

Jun 24, 2013

UNESCO World Heritage designation lauds world wonder’s blend of culture and ecology
From street protest to cyber protest

Jun 17, 2013

Huge street demonstrations have been absent from Thai politics for several months. They are being replaced by smaller protests held by people who connect with one other through cyber space. These pe...
Hong Kong to handle Snowden’s case according to local laws

Jun 17, 2013

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said the Edward Snowden case will be handled according to local laws, a move observers said requires due respect for sovereignty of jurisdiction. Despite th...
Recharging Japan

Jun 17, 2013

The Japanese word “choju,” meaning longevity, implies, with its kanji, joyous celebration of long life. Intrinsically, it is a joyful thing for people to live long. But if a society has many people w...
Village’s last potter keeps kiln burning

Jun 17, 2013

Wearing a T-shirt and shorts, sweating like a farmer in the field, artisan Dang Van Trinh digs clay to make pottery at the only remaining ceramics workshop in My Thien Village, in Vietnam’s central p...
Regional ‘rulebooks’ affirm hometown love

Jun 10, 2013

“When you see a comedian, you should talk to them or follow them.” (Osaka) “Always call fried tofu ‘oage-san,’ not ‘aburaage.’” (Kyoto) “When you run into a wild boar, you must not show surprise.” ...
Chinese graduates in job dilemma

Jun 10, 2013

Almost 7 million ― this will be the number of college graduates in China in 2013, a year which promises to be the toughest job-hunting season in Chinese history. Never before has the nation had so ...
Japan plans to build new rocket to replace aging H2A

Jun 10, 2013

The Office of National Space Policy has decided to develop a new mainline rocket to replace the H2A, with development set to begin next fiscal year and a first launch around 2020. Eighteen years aft...
Silenced Chinese bloggers rise again

Jun 3, 2013

Outspoken bloggers on Chinese site whose accounts get deleted ‘reincarnate’ themselves by adopting different user names
Filipino startups link up with Silicon Valley

Jun 3, 2013

Some successful startups that have “morphed” into a global company claim to have started in a garage or basement or college dorm. Silicon Valley in California has become the launch pad for many of th...
Emerging from rubble through joy of dance

Jun 3, 2013

Many family members and friends perished when a deadly mudslide tumbled down upon Zhouqu, Gansu province, on Aug. 8, 2010. Chen Yajun, one of the founders of a women’s dance troupe in Zhouqu, still ...
China to top Japan in millionaire stakes

Jun 3, 2013

The Chinese mainland is poised to overtake Japan this year as the economy with the world’s second-largest number of dollar millionaire households, behind the United States. And the Asia-Pacific regi...
Tablet computers to assist cancer patients

May 27, 2013

The National Cancer Center’s Hospital East in Kashiwa, Chiba prefecture, Japan, has developed a tablet computer-based system to assist elderly cancer patients at home. Hospital nurses will use the s...
Chinese tourist faces heat over temple vandalism

May 27, 2013

The parents of a teen vandal from Jiangsu province have apologized to the public for the graffiti their son scratched on a stone sculpture in an ancient temple in Egypt, which triggered an online upr...