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  • Activists: Panic, despair in NKorea as citizens are ordered to trade in bills for new currency 3 Dec 2009 10:56 GMT
    ... for new currency SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean authorities threatened "merciless punishment" for defiance ... merchants left with piles of worthless bills. North Korea informed citizens and foreign embassies Monday that ... new ones, they said. The news sent Pyongyang residents distrustful of the local currency rushing ...

  • Tigers on decline in Russia where poachers are plentiful 3 Dec 2009 10:55 GMT
    ... century ago, the tigers rebounded when the government imposed protections, and their numbers remained more ... the Pacific Ocean, and in China and North Korea. Before the recent survey, an estimated 400 ... more secure inside the parks. Russia's prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, has expressed dismay over ...

  • Defectors urge tribunal to investigate alleged human rights abuses in North Korea 3 Dec 2009 10:51 GMT
    ... to investigate alleged human rights abuses in North Korea SEOUL, South Korea - The communist government led by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il must be investigated ... Korea rejected the statement as "a trite political plot hatched by hostile forces." North Korea ...

  • Iran says Afghan troop surge will not help 3 Dec 2009 10:17 GMT
    ... Tehran: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the US decision to ... is to let Afghan people determine their political fate," Mottaki said late yesterday. "Surging forces in ... in an "axis of evil" with Stalinist North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and sent troops ...

  • Activists: Despair in N.Korea over currency change 3 Dec 2009 10:01 GMT
    ... new ones, they said. The news sent Pyongyang residents distrustful of the local currency rushing ... reportedly was shut down in mid-June. The government is retaking control of the economy from ... days before President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korea is set to travel to Pyongyang ...

  • Activists: Despair In NKorea Over Currency Change 3 Dec 2009 10:00 GMT
    ... Activists: Despair In NKorea Over Currency Change North Korean authorities threatened "merciless punishment" for defiance ... merchants left with piles of worthless bills. North Korea informed citizens and foreign embassies Monday that ... new ones, they said. The news sent Pyongyang residents distrustful of the local currency rushing ...

  • Defectors want probe of North Korean rights abuses 3 Dec 2009 10:00 GMT
    ... SEOUL, South Korea—The communist government led by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il must be investigated ... defectors said Thursday. About 150 defectors from North Korea signed a petition urging the International Criminal ... Korea rejected the statement as "a trite political plot hatched by hostile forces." North Korea ...

  • Despair in N.Korea over currency change 3 Dec 2009 10:00 GMT
    ... SEOUL, South Korea—North Korean authorities threatened "merciless punishment" for defiance ... merchants left with piles of worthless bills. North Korea informed citizens and foreign embassies Monday that ... new ones, they said. The news sent Pyongyang residents distrustful of the local currency rushing ...

  • Activists: Despair in N.Korea over currency ... 3 Dec 2009 09:56 GMT
    ... Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 12:47 a.m. North Korean banknotes are displayed at a souvenir ... Panmunjom, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. North Korea revamped its national currency for the first ... new ones, they said. The news sent Pyongyang residents distrustful of the local currency rushing ...

  • Defectors urge tribunal to investigate alleged human rights abuses in North Korea 3 Dec 2009 09:48 GMT
    ... (AP) — The communist government led by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il must be investigated ... defectors said Thursday. About 150 defectors from North Korea signed a petition urging the International Criminal ... Korea rejected the statement as "a trite political plot hatched by hostile forces." North Korea ...

  • Despair in N.Korea over currency change 3 Dec 2009 09:47 GMT
    ... SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korean authorities threatened "merciless punishment" for defiance ... merchants left with piles of worthless bills. North Korea informed citizens and foreign embassies Monday that ... new ones, they said. The news sent Pyongyang residents distrustful of the local currency rushing ...

  • Activists: Despair in N.Korea over currency change 3 Dec 2009 09:44 GMT
    ... said. The country's largest wholesale market, in Pyongyang, reportedly was shut down in mid-June. The ... flooding and economic mismanagement in the mid-1990s. North Korea since has relied on international food handouts ... new currency, according to media outlets monitoring North Korean radio. The rest must be deposited ...

  • Defectors want probe of North Korean rights abuses 3 Dec 2009 09:41 GMT
    ... Defectors want probe of North Korean rights abuses SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - ... defectors said Thursday. About 150 defectors from North Korea signed a petition urging the International Criminal ... Korea rejected the statement as "a trite political plot hatched by hostile forces." North Korea ...

  • Activists: Despair In NKorea Over Currency Change 3 Dec 2009 09:34 GMT
    ... Activists: Despair In NKorea Over Currency Change North Korean authorities threatened "merciless punishment" for defiance ... merchants left with piles of worthless bills. North Korea informed citizens and foreign embassies Monday that ... new ones, they said. The news sent Pyongyang residents distrustful of the local currency rushing ...

  • China eyes supremacy yet again at East Asian Games 3 Dec 2009 09:32 GMT
    ... are the hosts themselves, Guam, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea and Taiwan, making a total of nine. ... a press conference Wednesday local journalists peppered government officials on the turnout that afternoon at ... Hong Kong public. But Vincent Liu, the deputy secretary for home affairs, said he was ...


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