The South Korean military and Korea University have signed an agreement to set up a cyberdefense program aimed specifically at training students in cyber warfare to combat virtual threats from North Korea. The four-year cyberdefense major will be offered at Korea University’s Graduate School of Information Security starting next year and will accept 30 undergraduates, […]
Officials in Burma said Tuesday that actress Michelle Yeoh was deported when she tried to visit the country last week. Yeoh, who won international fame as a Chinese spy in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, plays Aung San Suu Kyi in a film about the Burmese democracy activist scheduled for release later […]
Vietnam will begin on Friday to carry out the death penalty by lethal injection instead of firing squad. Legislators looking for a more humane method of carrying out the death penalty approved the change last year. Read more: VOANews.com VOA News
Hanoi – Vietnamese authorities recovered the body of a man swept away by floods last week, bringing the death toll from Tropical Storm Haima to 17, officials said Monday. Seven of the victims were struck by lightning as they worked in rice fields, two were killed by a whirlwind and one was caught in a […]
Scientists have identified more than 300 previously unknown species of land and sea creatures, according to a news release from the California Academy of Sciences. They were discovered on a six-week-long expedition that ended in early June, and focused on the Philippine island of Luzon. The California Academy of Sciences, together with over two dozen […]
Three cities in Burma have been targeted by separate bomb-blasts. The first explosion destroyed a car and shattered windows near the main market of Mandalay just before noon, a government official said. Read more: radioaustralianews.net.au
On Monday the United Nations-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh will open its hearing into the four surviving leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge movement. Cambodians have waited three decades for this day: when the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge movement appear in court charged with an array of crimes – genocide, war crimes, crimes against […]
China’s ruling Communist Party says it is stepping up its fight against worsening corruption among its members. The party’s vice chairman for discipline, Wu Yuliang, said Wednesday officials would come under closer scrutiny and supervision. The announcement follows the creation of new independent online tools aimed at helping the public anonymously report corrupt officials. The […]
