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Cambodia sets age limit for foreign husbands

Mar 17, 2011

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Male foreigners over the age of 50 have been outlawed from marrying Cambodian women in the country under new rules designed to crack down on sham marriages and human trafficking, the government said Wednesday. Foreigners who earn less than $2,550 per month are also barred from wedding local women, foreign ministry spokesman Koy Kuong told AFP, but the restrictions do not appl...
Elite Japan nuclear workers race to stop meltdown

코리아 헤럴드Mar 17, 2011

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) _ They risk explosions, fire and an invisible enemy _ radiation that could kill quickly or decades later_ as they race to avert disaster inside a dark, overheated nuclear plant. The 180 emergency workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi complex are emerging as public heroes in the wake of a disaster spawned by an earthquake and a tsunami. Even at normal times, worker...
4 New York Times journalists missing in Libya

World NewsMar 17, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) _ Four New York Times journalists covering the fighting in Libya were reported missing Wednesday, and the newspaper held out hope that they were alive and in the custody of the Libyan government. Editors last heard from the journalists on Tuesday as they were covering the retreat of rebels from the town of Ajdabiya, and Libyan officials told the newspaper they were trying to locate...
S. Korea welcomes accord with France on transfer of 'Oegyujanggak' royal books

BooksMar 17, 2011

South Korea on Thursday welcomed an agreement with France to transfer centuries-old Korean royal books from Paris to Seoul between March and May beginning with the first shipment later this month. Officials from the national museums of the two countries signed the agreement in Paris on Wednesday to transport 297 volumes of the "Oegyujanggak" to Seoul in four shipments from March 28, according to...
S. Korea delays repatriation of N. Koreans, citing technical glitch

North KoreaMar 17, 2011

South Korea said Thursday it will delay the repatriation of 27 North Koreans who had been set to cross the Yellow Sea border later in the day without four others who have defected here, citing a malfunction in the fishing boat that was to carry them back home. The Unification Ministry said in a message to reporters that the South Korean Red Cross notified its North Korean counterpart of the del...
Five missing S. Koreans rescued in Japan

Social affairsMar 17, 2011

Five South Korean residents and travelers who went missing after a massive earthquake hit Japan's northeast region were rescued on Wednesday, the foreign ministry said. The five, including a 52-year-old woman identified only as Kim and her sister and brother-in-law, were saved by a South Korean rescue team in Ishinomaki and another northeastern coastal city in Miyagi Prefecture, the ministry sai...
London marks countdown with launch of ticket sales

More sportsMar 16, 2011

LONDON (AP) _ London is preparing to mark the 500-day countdown to the 2012 Olympics with the launch of ticket sales for the first home games since 1948. With Tuesday marking exactly 500 days to go until the opening ceremony on July 27, 2012, organizers will open applications for the 6.6 million tickets on offer. Demand is expected to be high for the tickets, which are being sold by a lottery s...
N. Korea agrees to partial repatriation of its nationals in S. Korea

코리아 헤럴드Mar 15, 2011

North Korea agreed Tuesday to the repatriation of only 27 of its 31 nationals held in South Korea after their wooden boat drifted to the South last month, withdrawing its earlier demand that all of them, including four who have expressed their wish to defect, be returned, officials said. The agreement, expressed through the Red Cross channel of the two countries, ends the deadlock that has laste...
(URGENT) Tokyo stocks dive 10.55% on nuclear fears

코리아 헤럴드Mar 15, 2011

TOKYO, March 15, 2011 (AFP) - Tokyo shares closed down 10.55 percent on Tuesday as panicking investors dumped stocks after the government said rising radiation levels at a stricken nuclear plant posed a threat to health.
(URGENT) Japan stocks plunge 11 percent

코리아 헤럴드Mar 15, 2011

TOKYO, March 15, 2011 (AFP) - Tokyo shares plunged 11.03 percent as Japan's nuclear crisis escalated on Tuesday, after radiation levels near a quake-stricken nuclear plant surged following explosions and a fire. The Nikkei index lost 1,061.35 points to 8,559.14.
Fire extinguished at crippled Japan nuclear plant

코리아 헤럴드Mar 15, 2011

SOMA, Japan (AP) _ Japan's nuclear safety agency says a fire in a reactor at a crippled nuclear power plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan has been extinguished. The fire broke out Tuesday at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in one of the hardest-hit provinces in last week's massive earthquake and tsunami. Meanwhile, radiation was spewing from the Dai-ichi plant in a dramatic escalat...
N. Korea not opposed to discussing uranium enrichment in six-party talks

PoliticsMar 15, 2011

North Korea told a visiting top Russian diplomat that it does not oppose discussing its uranium enrichment activity in the stalled six-party talks once they resume, a report said Tuesday. North Korea also told Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin that Pyongyang was ready to rejoin the talks "without any preconditions" and hopes to work under an "action-for-action principle," the off...
Online sites top newspapers for Americans: report

TechnologyMar 15, 2011

WASHINGTON (AFP) - More Americans are getting their news from the Internet than from print newspapers for the first time as audience figures for cable news programs fall, according to a report released on Monday. The State of the News Media 2011 report by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism said that in another first, online advertising revenue topped that of print newspapers last year....
Japan in survival mode after quake

WorldMar 14, 2011

TOKYO (AFP) - Millions of Japanese people were without food, water or power Monday and hundreds of thousands more homeless after a massive quake and tsunami left the economic superpower battling third-world conditions. Aid workers and search teams from across the world joined 100,000 Japanese soldiers in a massive relief push as the rattled country suffered a wave of major aftershocks and fresh ...
Korean tech firms expect minimal impact from Japan quake

코리아 헤럴드Mar 14, 2011

South Korean makers of semiconductors and liquid crystal display (LCD) panels said Monday that they expect the impact from Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami on their business to be minimal. Company officials and market analysts, however, did not rule out long-term impact from the natural disaster on the LCD and chip industries. Japanese semiconductor and LCD makers are key rivals of So...