US ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy is making her first visit to Okinawa island, amid ongoing protests against plans to relocate a US base.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
HONG KONG: Proposed Hong Kong Tax Directed at Mainland Chinese Raises Alarms
With a sharp rise in visitors from mainland China, Hong Kong’s leaders find ways to tap into local anger about the effect of Chinese tourists.
JAPAN: Japanese Composer Says His Hearing Loss Is Partly Faked
Mamoru Samuragochi, once likened to a modern-day Beethoven, admitted to partly faking his deafness after confessing that a ghostwriter had written his best-known compositions.
JAPAN: Nuclear Issue in Limbo as Indecision Grips Japan
Even many of those who support phasing out nuclear plants after the Fukushima disaster see a temporary need for them.
SOUTH KOREA: Seoul City's New Promotional Video: Tough and Raw
“Bitter, Sweet, Seoul,” a crowd-sourced film about Seoul supported by the city government was released on Tuesday and there are no polished images or preaching about the virtues of South Korea’s capital.
THAILAND to end rice subsidy scheme
Caretaker government says scheme is casualty of power struggle that has rocked the capital and disrupted February election
VIETNAM: 'Hired Thugs' Fire on Farmers in Vietnam Land Dispute
A group of gun-toting men hired by the developer of a satellite city on the edge of Vietnam’s capital shot Tuesday at unarmed farmers trying to reclaim rice fields which are to be flattened as part of the mega project, injuring five of them, one severely, sources said.
The farmers were among residents in Hun Yen province’s Van Giang district whose protest against the confiscation of their farmland in April 2012 was brutally suppressed by the authorities.
Nearly two years after their protest, the dispute remains unsettled and residents of Phung Cong village, where the incident took place, are among those who have continued to petition the central government to have their land returned to them.
SOUTH KOREA & RUSSIA: Lee Sang Hwa grabbed gold in the ladies speed skating 500m
Lee Sang Hwa (Republic of Korea) grabbed gold in the ladies speed skating 500m at Adler Arena on Tuesday night.
Olga Fatkulina (Russia) took the silver and Margot Boer (Netherlands) the bronze.
Lee became the third speed skater after Bonnie Blair (USA) and Catriona le May Doan (Canada) to win multiple Olympic gold medals in the 500m. Blair is the only skater to have won this event three times.
RUSSIA: Sochi 2014 Day 5 - Medal Ceremony
(R-L) Silver medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Canada, gold medalist Alex Bilodeau of Canada and bronze medalist Alexandr Smyshlyaev of Russia celebrate on the podium during the medal ceremony for the for the Freestyle Skiing Men's Moguls
SOUTH KOREA: Sochi 2014 Day 5 - Speed Skating Women's 500m Race
Gold medalist Sang Hwa Lee of South Korea celebrates on the podium during the flower ceremony for the Speed Skating Women's 500m Event
RUSSIA & SOUTH KOREA: Sochi 2014 Day 5 - Speed Skating Women's 500m Race
(L-R) Silver medalist Olga Fatkulina of Russia, gold medalist Sang Hwa Lee of South Korea and bronze medalist Margot Boer of the Netherlands on the podium during the flower ceremony for the Speed Skating Women's 500m Event
(Very Rare!) Shirley Temple sings in Japanese! (1937)
Did you know that Shirley Temple, who passed away Monday at 85, recorded two nursery rhymes in Japanese?
Rival KOREAS to hold Senior-Level Meeting
The two Koreas are set to hold their highest-level meeting in years on Wednesday, with talks expected to include family reunions and the resumption of joint tourism projects.
CHINA, TAIWAN Hold Historic Talks
Senior officials from Taiwan and China met in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing to talk about establishing representative offices in both countries. But the historic talks, the first since the 1949 creation of the People's Republic of China, didn't include sensitive issues such as a formal peace treaty.
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