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Canada should take page out of South Korea's green playbook - Toronto Star
Canada and South Korea may be co-chairing this year's G20 meeting in Toronto, but the two countries are worlds apart on their approach to greening the economy. There was a time not so long ago when this might not have mattered to many people. But in ...

South Korea to boost green energy - United Press International
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- South Korea expects to increase alternative energy spending by 52 percent in 2010, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Spending by the private sector and state-run companies could increase to $4.8 billion from $3.14 billion in 2009 ...

For Chinese Koreans, life is hard but still better in South Korea - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Seoul - Yin Shuilian is a fighter. For more than 11 years, the 45-year-old ethnic Korean tried to leave her hard life in China, where she toiled in fields and in restaurants, and make her way to South Korea. The move wasn't easy: She ...

Zambia-South Korea: Losing To Zambia Means Little To South Korea World ... - Bleacherreport.com
Heading into their first match of 2010, the South Korean football fans could not have expected their team to be over-matched by a Zambian team that didn't even qualify for this year's World Cup. However, being beaten was likely of little concern to ...

UN envoy arrives in North Korea to spur nuke talks - Ledger-Enquirer
SEOUL, South Korea -- A senior U.N. envoy arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, the world body's highest-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years, amid an international push to get it back to the nuclear negotiating table. North Korea's ...

South Korea, German leaders to discuss G-20, trade, reunification - Investors Business Daily
Feb 08, 2010 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) - South Korean and German leaders were to hold talks here later Monday to discuss ways to boost cooperation at the G-20 economic forum and facilitate the implementation of the free ...

South Korea's Lotte to buy GS Retail units for $1.2 billion - Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Lotte Group is buying GS Retail's department and discount store operations for around $1.15 billion as it seeks to catch up with bigger rivals such as Shinsegae ( 004170.KS ) in the country's growing discount stores ...

Toyota to Recall Prius Hybrid Car in South Korea, Ministry Says - BusinessWeek
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. plans to recall its Prius hybrid car in South Korea for possible defect in brake systems, according to the South Korean Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs. The recall will affect 510 units sold ...

Ahn Jung-hwan handed South Korea lifeline - ESPN.com
South Korea's Ahn Jung-hwan, whose golden goal in 2002 knocked Italy out of the World Cup, could be in line for a surprise recall to the national team after coach Huh Jung-moo arranged to have him watched in China. GettyImages Ahn Jung-hwan: A hero ...

The Wonder of South Korea - Huffingtonpost.com
I've embarked on a world journey, perhaps my tenth, to learn more about Planet Earth and humanity. My first stop is Seoul, South Korea. I've been here at least annually for the past quarter century, and sometimes twice or thrice a year. I would like ...

Afghan avalanches kill dozens, injure hundreds

An Afghan army soldier carries a child during an evacuation from the avalanche which struck the Salang Pass, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul may have killed up to 70 people, officials said Tuesday.




NATO: Afghans to play big role in offensive

British and Afghan soldiers practice drills at Military Operating Base Shorabak in Helmand, Afghanistan, on Monday, in preparatoin for a major offensive that also will include thousands of U.S. troops. Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war.




Report: Iran begins controversial nuke process

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, is seen visiting the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles south of the capital Tehran, on April 8, 2008.Iran's state TV said the country started enriching its uranium to a higher level of 20 percent, over the objections of the international community.




N. Korea’s Kim reiterates disarmament pledge
China's Xinhua News Agency says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reiterated his country's promise to achieve a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

World Blog: Did 'pandering' cost U.S. lives at Afghan base?
Why did eight American soldiers die defending an remote outpost the U.S. military no longer wanted to hold? NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Kabul.

Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons

In this photo released by the Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker, right, and the Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No.3 collide in the waters of Antarctica Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. It was the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet. (AP Photo/Institute of Cetacean Research) ** MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY **Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.




Mexico arrests 2 reputed leaders of drug gang
Mexican authorities on Monday arrested two suspected leaders of a brutal drug trafficking gang that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years, a U.S. official said.

Recovery effort revives China’s quake zone

A car drives in a town destroyed from the 2008 earthquake in Wenchuan, China. Just 22 months from the 7.9-magnitude quake struck, scarred mountain sides are often the only physical indication of the devastation that left nearly 90,000 dead or missing and another 5 million homeless. China is showing off the results of its massive drive to rebuild its own quake zone  22 months after a 7.9-magnitude temblor struck and devastated the region and left at least 90,000 dead.




Spring rains threaten Haitian survivors

Survivors of Haiti's earthquake in a makeshift tent at the Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 2. Officials are now worried about the coming of deadly spring rains.In Haiti's devastated capital city, early spring rains threaten to cause landslides and bring about health problems in the makeshift camps where more than 500,000 people are living.




Haiti awash in Christian aid, evangelism

Members of Idaho-based charity called New Life Children's Refuge are shown at a police station in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 31. The drama on the sidelines of Haiti's earthquake, in which 10 American missionaries were arrested trying to take children out of the country, was a fiasco waiting to happen. By Kari Huus.



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