NEW DELHI INDAI: The Netherlands have advanced to the semifinals of the field hockey World Cup despite losing to South Korea 2-1 on Tuesday.

The Netherlands had a better goal difference than South Korea, which will miss its first semifinals in three World Cups.

The Dutch will play Pool B winner Australia on Thursday, while Pool A winner Germany will meet England in the other semi.

The Koreans face Spain in a playoff for fifth.

Ronald Brouwer opened the scoring for the Netherlands in the first minute. South Korea hit back through Nam Hyun-woo’s penalty corner in the 32nd, and won on a field goal by Seo Jong-ho in the 45th.

Sunan International Airport (IATA: FNJ, ICAO: ZKPY) is the main airport serving Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, located 24 km from the city’s center.

Sunan has two runways, the largest of which (01/19) is used mainly for international flights. The second runway (17/35) is used for domestic and civil flights[citation needed]. The airport’s hours of operation are from 06:00 to 22:00 in the summer and 07:00 to 21:00 in the winter[citation needed].

The airport is the main hub of Air Koryo. In 2000, Aeroflot discontinued its weekly Moscow flight due to poor loads. China Southern Airlines, which offered scheduled charter flights to and from Beijing during the peak season only, permanently pulled its flights in November 2006. In April 2008, Air China has reestablished service to Beijing, 3 days per week. Mandarin Airlines offers group tour chartered flights between Taipei and Pyongyang during summer (June to August)[citation needed]. Korean Air and Asiana Airlines also provide chartered flight services to Incheon, the international airport serving Seoul, and Yangyang on the east coast of South Korea from Pyongyang. These flights are used by Korean family members visiting divided family across the border.

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Thursday unveiled a hi-tech alternative to the fridge magnet — a refrigerator with Internet access that can display family photos or recipes on a screen.

The door of the “Zipel e-Diary” features a 10-inch (25 cm) touch screen equipped with locally developed wi-fi software, allowing users to monitor Internet news and weather and store or display pictures and data.

It also can send and receive pictures from mobile phones.

The Zipel e-Diary, priced at 2.49 million won (2,174 US dollars), targets domestic consumers and Samsung has no immediate plan to sell it abroad.

Hockey World cup 2010 fixtures updats :- Pool A: Germany, Netherlands, Korea, New Zealand, Canada, Argentina

Pool B: Australia, Spain, England, Pakistan, India, South Africa
Hockey World Cup Schedule 2010

All matches wll be played in Dhyan Chand National Stadium, Delhi

Sunday February 28:

16:35 Pool B South Africa vs Spain

18:35 B Australia vs England

20:35 B India vs Pakistan

Monday March 1:

16:35 A New Zealand vs Canada

18:35 A Germany vs Korea

20:35 A Netherlands vs Argentina

Tuesday March 2:

16:35 B South Africa vs England

18:35 B Pakistan vs Spain

20:35 B India vs Australia

Wednesday March 3:

16:35 A Canada vs Germany

18:35 A Argentina vs Korea

20:35 A New Zealand vs Netherlands

Thursday March 4:

16:35 B South Africa vs Australia

18:35 B England vs Pakistan

20:35 B India vs Spain

Friday March 5:

16:35 A Korea vs New Zealand

18:35 A Netherlands vs Canada

20:35 A Germany vs Argentina

Saturday March 6:

16:35 B Australia vs Spain

18:35 B South Africa vs Pakistan

20:35 B India vs England

Sunday March 7:

16:35 A Korea vs Canada

18:35 A New Zealand vs Argentina

20:35 A Germany vs Netherlands

Monday March 8:

16:35 B Spain vs England

18:35 B Australia vs Pakistan

20:35 B India vs South Africa

Tuesday March 9:

16:35 A Germany vs New Zealand

18:35 A Netherlands vs Korea

20:35 A Canada vs Argentina

Wednesday March 10: Rest Day.

Thursday March 11:

15:35 Classification.11-12 6th Pool A vs 6th Pool B

18:05 Semi-final 1st Pool A vs 2nd Pool B

20:35 Semi-final 1st Pool B vs 2nd Pool A

Friday March 12:

15:35 Clas. 9-10 5th Pool A vs 5th Pool B

18:05 Clas. 7-8 4th Pool A vs 4th Pool B

20:35 Clas. 5-6 3rd Pool A vs 3rd Pool B.

Saturday March 13:

15:35 Bronze medal match

18:05 Final

Daul Kim found dead,South Korean model Daul Kim was found dead in her apartment in Paris, She had only 20 years.

According to reports it is apparent suicide, but the cause of death is not yet confirmed. Her Seoul agency, Esteem, said her family and agency officials were heading to Paris.

Daul Kim had a blog where on Oct. 30 she wrote: “mad depressed and overworked, the more i gain the more lonely it is … i know i’m like a ghost” and her last entry was on Nov. 18 and was titled “say hi to forever” and had attached a video of the song “I Go Deep” by British singer Jim Rivers.

Ms Kim has made appearances at fashion weeks around the world, modelling for leading designers, including Chanel and Alexander McQueen.

South Korea has the highest rate of suicide among the 30 nations belonging to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.

There have been a string of high-profile suicides in the country during the past year, including that of former President Roh Moo-hyun in May over a corruption scandal.

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Barrack Obama Leaves South Korea, Brings Asia Tour to End, US President Barrack Obama ended his Asian tour and left for home on Thursday after meeting US troops stationed in South Korea.
President Obama visited Japan before attending an Asia Pacific economic summit in Singapore, and continuing his first Asian tour to China and South Korea. Obama spoke to some of the 28,000 US troops stationed in the South before flying home at Osan Airbase, south of Seoul. An auditorium filled with young US soldiers greeted Obama enthusiastically as he walked in. Obama reaffirmed the US will keep a strong alliance with South Korea. “I made it clear. America’s commitment to the defence of the Republic of Korea will never waiver and our alliance has never been stronger,” Obama said. He hugged some of the soldiers and shook hands with several others. This was the end of his Asian tour, before he boarded Air Force One and headed back to Washington D.C.
North Korea argues that the presence of a large US troops contingent in South Korea threatens them of possible attacks, and thus pushed them to develop nuclear weapons. North and South Korea are still technically at war since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce without a peace treaty. North Korea rattled the economically powerful region just ahead of Obama’s first visit to Seoul since taking office by sparking a naval fight with the South and telling the world early this month it had produced a fresh batch of arms-grade plutonium. But it has toned down its normally strident anti-U.S rhetoric since Obama began his trip to Asia a week ago.
Obama said on Thursday he was willing to help North Korea repair its economy and end decades of international isolation if Pyongyang stopped a cycle of threats and finally moved towards nuclear disarmament. Speaking to reporters at the end a week-long Asia tour, Obama said he and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak agreed the North must end the pattern of provocations that simply ended up with demands for more concessions but never resolved the central problem.

Latest updates about Kathy Gardiner, Kathy Gardiner lady works as a banker.The 27-year-old’s exotic looks are a mix of Irish, French, and Korean genes.

Kathy Gardiner said, “I lived in Germany, Amsterdam, Italy, Korea, and a few different states, like Texas and Kansas. My dad was in the Army, so I’ve lived all over the world.”

Oh Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize Winner Joke!, or Nobel peace prize, Obama, Obama nobel prize, Obama nobel, Obama nobel peace prize joke , President Barack Obama wins the Nobel Prize? You heard it here first. In their infinite wisdom the Nobel Peace Prize Committee voted one of the more laughable awards in recent memory.

When the world is a more dangerous place and the president appears disengaged with foreign affairs, the Norwegians have done it again. First Al Gore, then Jimmy Carter, and now Barack Obama. Nobel peace prizes gone wild!

Ostensibly, the Obama Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Read all about it here and here and here.

Where is the peace, Obama?

Indeed the world is a far more dangerous place since he took office. Whether that is his fault or bad luck, the facts speak for themselves.

Iran is saber-rattling again, apparently taking advantage of the young president just like the Soviet Union exploited Kennedy. North Korea is firing missiles over Japan. There is no progress in Lebanon or among the Palestinian peoples. Eastern Europe feels more threatened now, while Russia and China are emboldened.

The United States remains embroiled in two foreign wars, with a proposal on the table to deepen our involvement in the Afghanistan operation. Iraq is now peaceful but that is due to George Bush policies. Barack Obama argued for a pullout, uncaring about the bloody revolution that would have followed in Iraq.

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Tsunami in Samoa 2009, A strong quake triggering tsunami in the South Pacific killed at least 100 people in the Samoa, totally devastating the islands, giving rise to the fears that death toll might exceed one hundred valuable lives.

An 8.3-magnitude quake struck at 1748 GMT, generating 15ft (4.5m) waves in some areas of Samoa and American Samoa. The Samoa islands comprise two separate entities – the nation of Samoa and American Samoa, a US territory – with a total population of about 250,000 people.

Eyewitness said, “”It caused severe damage to property, there are cars floating everywhere.” Reports pouring said that they had seen “bodies everywhere” in the main hospital in Lalomanu, on Samoa’s main island of Upolu, including at least one child.

South Korea’s news agency has reported that three South Koreans were among the dead and one is still missing. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) said the quake struck at a depth of 33km (20 miles) some 190km (120 miles) from Apia. Waves of 5.1ft (1.57m) hit Apia and Pago Pago in American Samoa.

Radio New Zealand quoted Samoan residents as saying that villages were inundated and homes and cars swept away. People fled for higher ground as the waves approached Graeme Ansell, a New Zealander near Apia, told the radio station the beach village of Sau Sau Beach Fale had been “wiped out”.

“There’s not a building standing. We’ve all clambered up hills, and one of our party has a broken leg. There will be people in a great lot of need around here,” he said. Local radio stations had been receiving reports of high sea swells hitting coastal areas on the eastern and southern side of Upolu Island. Witnesses have reported scenes of destruction.

Talutala Mauala, Secretary General of the Red Cross in Samoa, said she was travelling to the country’s south coast, where injuries had also been reported. The high waves damaged property and swept cars out to sea. “We won’t know the full extent of the damage until we get there and see for ourselves,” she said.

Mase Akapo, a National Weather Service meteorologist in American Samoa, told a news agency that at least 14 people had been killed in four different villages on the main island of Tutuila. He said another 20 people had died Samoa.President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in American Samoa, enabling federal funding to make available to help victims.

SEOUL: South Korea complained to North Korea on Monday about a sudden release of water into a river flowing across their border that left six people missing in the South.

The incident could cast a chill over ties that have warmed between the rivals in the past month with North Korea reaching out to the South to restore business and tourism ventures severed for about a year due to political bickering.

“At this point, we still wouldn’t quite call it a water assault,” Defence Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae told a briefing. “There has to be intention present for us to be able to do that.”

The six who went missing, including a child, were camping on the bank of the Imjin River bank they were swept away on Sunday in a surge of water. The river starts in the North and ends in the South to the northwest of Seoul.

Officials said the missing likely drowned.

North Korea was suspected of releasing water from a dam, South Korean officials said, noting there have not been heavy rains in the region for the past several days.

South Korea for years has worried about dams the North has built along rivers that flow across the border fearing its communist neighbour could use flood waters as a weapon to attack.

The North has built several dams on the Imjin River, a major waterway, including one a few kilometres north of the heavily armed border between the two states who have yet to sign a formal peace treaty to end the 1950-53 Korean War.

South Korea has long sought the North’s cooperation in flood control and setting up warning systems but Pyongyang has been reluctant to join.

The North has failed to notify the South ahead of releasing water on several previous occasions, resulting in flood damage in the South.

North Korea has claimed its dams on the Imjin are designed to release water automatically when they reach a certain threshold, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said.