Gold medalists team Russia celebrate during the flower ceremony for the Team Figure Skating Overall
Monday, February 10, 2014
RUSSIA: Sochi 2014 Day 3 - Figure Skating Team Ice Dance Free Dance
(L-R) Silver medalists team Canada, gold medalists team Russia and bronze medalists team USA pose on the podium during the flower ceremony for the Team Figure Skating Overall
RUSSIA: Sochi 2014 Day 3 - Luge Men's Singles
(L-R) Silver medalist Albert Demchenko of Russia, gold medalist Felix Loch of Germany and bronze medalist Armin Zoeggeler of Italy on the podium during the flower ceremony for the Men's Luge Singles
JAPAN: Delta Shifts Focus From Japan
More trans-Pacific flights by Delta Air Lines are bypassing their Tokyo hub as capacity on nonstop flights to other parts of Asia is set to overtake Japan for the first time at the world's third biggest airline
SOUTH KOREA: Movie Criticizing Samsung Sparks Controversy
"Another Family," a movie that criticizes the factory conditions of a Samsung-like company, is at the center of a debate about the relationship between the film industry and big business in South Korea.
Kerry Traveling to SOUTH KOREA and CHINA for Talks on NORTH KOREA
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry leaves Wednesday for South Korea and China, where he will meet with officials about containing North Korea's nuclear program. The Obama administration also is working to secure the release of U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae, who is being held in a North Korean labor camp. U.S. officials continue to push North Korea to release Kenneth Bae, an American missionary. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of plotting to overthrow the government....
RUSSIA: Sochi 2014 Day 3 - Luge Men's Singles
(L-R) Silver medalist Albert Demchenko of Russia, gold medalist Felix Loch of Germany and bronze medalist Armin Zoeggeler of Italy on the podium during the flower ceremony for the Men's Luge Singles
RUSSIA: Sochi 2014 Day 3 - Luge Men's Singles
(L-R) Silver medalist Albert Demchenko of Russia, gold medalist Felix Loch of Germany and bronze medalist Armin Zoeggeler of Italy on the podium during the flower ceremony for the Men's Luge Singles
RUSSIA: Sochi 2014 Day 4 - Curling Men's Round Robin Session 2
Evgeny Arkhipov of Russia in action during the round robin match against Great Britain
CHINA: Calling Out China's Lawlessness
The U.S. points out that Beijing's claims to the South China Sea don't stand up.
CHINA Wins First Medal at Sochi Olympics
China has entered the medal table at the Sochi Winter Olympics, with skater Han Tianyu winning a silver medal and pushing his hero into third place.
Why SOUTH KOREA is really an internet dinosaur
SOUTH KOREA likes to think of itself as a world leader when it comes to the internet. It boasts the world’s swiftest average broadband speeds (of around 22 megabits per second). Last month the government announced that it will upgrade the country's wireless network to 5G by 2020, making downloads about 1,000 times speedier than they are now. Rates of internet penetration are among the highest in the world. There is a thriving startup community (before Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, his Harvard classmate had rolled out Cyworld) and the country leads the world in video games as spectator sports. Yet in other ways the futuristic country is stuck in the dark ages. Last year Freedom House, an American NGO, ranked South Korea’s internet as only “partly free”. Reporters without Borders has placed it on a list of countries “under surveillance”, alongside Egypt, Thailand and Russia, in its report on “Enemies of the Internet”. Is forward-looking South Korea actually rather backward?Every week portions of the Korean web are taken down by government censors. Last year about 23,000 Korean webpages were deleted, and another 63,000 blocked, at the request of the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC), a nominally independent (but mainly government-appointed) public body. In 2009 the KCSC had made just 4,500 requests for deletion. Its filtering chiefly targets ...
CHINA set for landmark TAIWAN talks
China and Taiwan are set for the highest-level talks since 1949, overshadowed by Beijing's decision to block access to some media outlets.
RUSSIAN Billionaire's Dog Shelter Helps Putin's Olympics
A Russian billionaire who has invested heavily in the Winter Olympics has found a novel way to help Vladimir Putin stage a successful Games - by funding a shelter for Sochi's stray dogs. Oleg Deripaska's gesture could help save hundreds of dogs that are in danger of being rounded up and destroyed as the host city on the Black Sea tries to clear them off the streets. It could also help keep Deripaska in Putin's good books after speculation over the dogs' fate...
JAPAN: Shinzo Abe's comeback as prime minister drives Japan's turnaround
TOKYO — At his lowest point, Shinzo Abe lost his health and his reputation. He’d gotten his chance to lead Japan and had lasted just 366 days. His aides scattered. He was jeered in public. When he boarded a plane one day, a passenger in the same row asked to move, according to a recent book.
RUSSIA: Sochi 2014 Day 4 - Curling Women's Round Robin Session 1
Anna Sidorova of Russia in action during the round robin match against Denmark
VIETNAM: Gets Its First Taste of McD's
McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Vietnam to huge crowds eager to try a Big Mac, with people waiting in long, velvet-roped lines or on motor scooters inching up to the drive-through.
RUSSIA: Pussy Riot members say Russia is blocking drive to help prisoners
BERLIN (Reuters) - Two members of the punk protest band Pussy Riot accused Moscow on Monday of obstructing their campaign to improve conditions in Russia's jails, and called for international monitoring.
RUSSIA: Sochi 2014 Day 4 - Speed Skating Men's 500m Race
Artyom Kuznetsov of Russia competes during the Men's 500 m Race 2 of 2 Speed Skating event
RUSSIA: Behind Sochi's rise
CNN's Ivan Watson explores Sochi's rise from a Black sea resort to the host of the 2014 Winter Games
VIETNAM: Flappy Bird creator pulls the plug on his own app
The creator of the wildly popular game app Flappy Bird deleted it the App Store and Google Play early Monday, saying in a tweet that the game "ruins my simple life." Nguyen Ha Dong, a 29-year-old from Vietnam, released the game in 2013, but was thrust into the spotlight recently when the game began taking off. The free app was making $50,000 a day from in-app ads, although some were accusing Dong of artificially increasing his download tallies.
TAIWAN's Political Gridlock Threatens Its Regional Position and Cooperation with China
Taiwan's Minister of Mainland Affairs, Wang Yu-chi, is due to visit China from Feb. 11 to 14 in what has already been hailed a major step forward in China-Taiwan relations. Wang and his Chinese counterpart, Zhang Zhijun, are expected to discuss a number of trade and diplomatic issues, including a long-anticipated agreement to relax controls on cross-strait trade-in-goods and -- according to recent speculation -- a possible meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit later this year.
But Wang's visit comes amid prolonged political gridlock in Taipei and an internal crisis within Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (Nationalist) Party. These factors threaten to undermine the Ma administration's efforts to deepen cross-strait economic cooperation and could exacerbate what Ma, in a Jan. 30 speech, called Taiwan's unprecedented crisis of marginalization.
NORTH KOREA Rescinds Invitation to US Envoy
NORTH KOREA: Pyongyang has rescinded for a second time an invitation for a senior U.S. envoy to visit the country to discuss the release of long-detained American missionary Kenneth Bae (AP).
RUSSIAN police kill four Islamist militants in North Caucasus
(Reuters) - Russian police killed four suspected militants, law enforcement officials said on Monday, in a shootout at a house in the North Caucasus, highlighting regional security concerns near the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
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