In a development kept low-key in South Korea, the Hunminjeongeum Research Institute in Seoul, Republic of Korea has persuaded the Cia-Cia tribe of southern Indonesia to adopt the Korean (hangeul) alphabet.
A British Columbian boy was celebrating his third bithday last Sunday with his family at a camping ground in Fort St. John, in the northeastern part of the province, when he found himself riding down the nearby Peace River in his toy truck.
BBC News is reporting that a 66 year old man in Guangzhou, China, pushed a man off a bridge ledge where he had been threatening to jump for the past five hours.
Former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun has died after falling in a mountainous ravine area near his home in Gangsangnam province in the southern part of the country on Sunday, a top aide has reported.