SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- Organizers of the Daejong Film Awards, South Korea's
only state-funded film contest, announced 54 candidates Wednesday including the

SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court sentenced a businessman and one-time
financial supporter of the late former President Roh Moo-hyun to a three and half

SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- A group of major publishers and on- and off-line
booksellers in South Korea founded an electric book firm on Wednesday, the new

Prince Naif urged workers at Hajj Services Foundations to exert more
efforts to develop their services to meet the aspirations and to

Makkah, September 16, SPA -- Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz, the Second
Deputy Premier, Minister of Interior and Chairman of Supreme Hajj

New Delhi, Sept 15 (PTI) After a humble beginning in
1959 from a makeshift studio in Akashwani Bhavan here,
Doordarshan, India's official broadcaster, has come a long way

Bhaskar Ghose described his tenure as the head of DD
as the most "exciting time of his career."

Thimphu, Sept 16 (PTI) Bhutanese can now look forward
to learning playing the sitar or the tabla and know more about
Indian literature and theatre.

Guwahati, Sep 16 (PTI) The World Bamboo Congress,
beginning Wednesday in Thailand, would deliberate on ways to
promote Brahmaputra-Mekong Valley axis for sustainable bamboo

The congress would include lectures, presentations and
demonstrations related to bamboo propagation, product
application, sustainability and environmental properties and