All posts tagged "topstories"

  • A South Korean students shows her palms with signs during a rally against the Israeli military operations in Gaza and the West Bank and wish for peace near the Israel Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Amnesty Int’l calls on S. Korea to stop arming Israel

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea should immediately halt the transfer of all weapons to Israel in light of the deadly conflict in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 1,300 people and injured many more since...

    • Posted July 31, 2014
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  • These fishes are supposed to swim at the speed of 2.5 meters per second to collect water quality information, but tests showed that they could go as far as only 23 centimeters per second, (Yonhap)
    Korea’s robot fish project found to be failure: state auditor

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A government project to check the water quality of the nation’s four refurbished rivers by using robotic fish has failed to meet its goal as the devices did not function properly, the state auditor...

    • Posted July 31, 2014
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  • A worker begins the task of cleaning up at least an inch of water covering the playing floor at Pauley Pavilion, home of UCLA basketball, after a broken 30-inch water main under nearby Sunset Boulevard caused flooding that inundated several areas of the UCLA campus in the Westwood section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)
    UCLA flood: Estimate doubles to 20 million gallons of water

    (CNS) – Utility crews struggled today to completely stop the flow of leaking water near a 30-inch riveted-steel pipe that ruptured north of the UCLA campus, sending 20 millions of gallons cascading onto the campus, and Department of Water and...

    • Posted July 31, 2014
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  • Chief Administrative Officer Martha Choe. (© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
    Martha Choe looks forward to life after Gates Foundation

    By Tae Hong Martha Choe, 59, is all about following the rhythm of life as she prepares to step down from her post as the chief administrative officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in September...

    • Posted July 30, 2014
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  • People walk down a stairway leading to a parking structure across from Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus after flooding from a broken 30-inch water main under nearby Sunset Boulevard inundated a large area of the campus in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. The 30-inch (75-centimeter) 93-year-old pipe that broke made a raging river of the street and sent millions of gallons (liters) of water across the school's athletic facilities, including the famed floor of Pauley Pavilion, the neighboring Wooden Center and the Los Angeles Tennis Center, and a pair of parking structures that took the brunt of the damage. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)
    Water main break floods UCLA campus, 10 million gallons of water lost

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A 93-year-old, 30-inch-diameter water main ruptured north of UCLA today, blasting a geyser of water through Sunset Boulevard and sending an estimated 8 million to 10 million gallons cascading down the street and inundating a number...

    • Posted July 29, 2014
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    South Korea’s largest-ever by-elections too close to call

    SEOUL, July 30 (Yonhap) — South Koreans began voting Wednesday in the country’s largest-ever parliamentary by-elections seen as a mid-term referendum on President Park Geun-hye’s conservative administration. The polls carry extra weight because a record 15 parliamentary...

    • Posted July 29, 2014
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  • Park Soo-kyung
    Real-life Charlie’s Angel?

    By Lee Hyo-sik The picture just does not fit: a big bulky man under the protection of a slender female bodyguard. Yoo Dae-gyun, 44, the eldest son of the deceased Yoo Byung-eun, once the nation’s most wanted...

    • Posted July 29, 2014
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