Kim Ng - Kim Ng Kim Ng is a United States baseball executive for the Major League Baseball Los Angeles Dodgers organization. She was the youngest person, and first woman, to present a salary arbitration case in the major leagues when she worked for the Chicago White Sox, regarding the case of Alex Fernandez. In 1997, she was hired by the New York Yankees as assistant general manager, which made her youngest in the major leagues, at age 29. She joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2001 as assistant GM. In November 2003, she was involved in an incident when New York Mets special assistant to the general manager Bill Singer mocked her ethnic Chinese background. (Her father was U.S.-born of Chinese descent and mother Thailand-born of Chinese descent.).
Hong Kong Economic Journal - the stock market faced its downturn. Today, it is still considered to be one of the most influential newspapers in the Chinese media world. The Hong Kong Economic Journal initially consisted of two pages. Nowaday, it has been extended to be seven or eight pages. The Journal has a circulation of 63,120 copies per day in January 2001, and the main reader groups are intellectuals and businessmen, who usually demand reliable sources of news. The staffs and the sections 7 journalists are working for Hong Kong Economic Journal, they are: Ms Yiu Hung, Georgina Chan, the Assistant Chief Editor, Mr Fai Kim Ho, the Reporter, Ms Chris Lam , the Reporter, Mr Reed Lo, the Reporter Ms Valentine Ma, the Reporter Ms Yin Kwan Ng, the Reporter Mr Fat Lee Wing,.
Sun Myung Moon - schools, on a government abstinence-based sex education grant. After the end of the Japanese occupation of Korea, Moon learned first-hand to despise the brutal excesses of North Korean communism. His experiences inspired a lasting hatred of Communism that helped him forge a powerful political alliance with the Reagan administration. Moon has spent a billion dollars to run the conservative, influential Washington Times, which in 2002 he called "the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world." And decades after Congressional scrutiny and a prison term for tax fraud, his generosity to the New Right (including opening an account for the "Contra" part of the Iran-Contra equation) has earned him a world of deference from his former enemies. He was born Moon Yong-myung (文龍明) in Sangsa-ri (上思里), Deogun-myun (__), Jeongju-gun.
Chinese family name - Taiwan. On the other hand, the 47th most popular family name Fong (方) is a major name in the Chinatown of San Francisco, California, USA. As with the concentration of family names, this can also be explained statistically, as a person with an uncommon name could move to an unsettled area and leave this family name to large numbers of people. Transliteration of Chinese family names (see Table 1 below) into English poses a number of problems. It is common for the same surname to be transliterated differently and for different family names with similar pronounciations to be transliterated identically. Table 1: Top 60 Family Names in Mandarin and Cantonese Transliterations The "Other" columns are common transliterations, used before the formalization and popularization of existing Romanizations, still can be found in.
Politics of North Korea - under the rigid control of the communist Korean Workers' Party (KWP), to which all government officials belong. A few minor political parties are allowed to exist in name only. Kim Il Sung ruled North Korea from 1948 until his death in July 1994. Kim served both as Secretary General of the KWP and as President of North Korea. Little is known about the actual lines of power and authority in the North Korean Government despite the formal structure set forth in the constitution. Following the death of Kim Il Sung, his son--Kim Jong Il--was named General Secretary of the Korean Workers' Party in October 1997, and in September 1998, the SPA reconfirmed Kim Jong Il as Chairman of the National Defense Commission and declared that position as the "highest office of.
Names of Korea - being the Japanese Chosen (朝鮮)). During this period, many different groups outside of Korea worked or fought for independence. One group was the Shanghai-based Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (Daehan Minguk Imshi Jeongbu; 대한 민국 임시 정부; 大韓民國臨時政府), adopting the name Daehan Minguk ("Republic of Korea"), a modified form of Daehan Jeguk ("Korean Empire"). After World War II Korea became independent with Japan's defeat in 1945. The country was then jointly divided into a Soviet occupation zone in the north and an American occupation zone in the south. The non-Communist Shanghai group had more influence in the south, which in 1948 became the "Republic of Korea," adopting the former provisional government's name of Daehan Minguk. Meanwhile, ex-Soviet Red Army major Kim Il-sung's Korean Workers' Party had more influence in.
North Korea - is sure to win if he believes in and depends upon the people Official language Korean Capital P'yŏngyang President, Supreme People's Assembly Presidium Kim Yong-nam1 Chairman, National Defense Commission Kim Jong-il2 Premier Pak Pong-ju Area - Total - % water Ranked 97th 120,540 kmē 0.1% Population - Total (2002) - Density Ranked 49th 22,224,195 182.25/kmē Independence - Date From Japan August 15, 1945 Currency North Korean won Time zone UTC +9 National anthem A ch'im un pinnara, i kangsan ungum e Internet TLD None (.KP is reserved) Calling Code 850 (1) Kim Yong-nam is the de facto head of state; Kim Il-sung is "eternal president" (2) Kim Jong Il is the most powerful figure in the DPRK; the Chairman of the National Defence Commission is accorded the nation's "highest administrative authority".
List of Chinese Americans - accused spy, acquitted Katrina Leung - businesswoman, accused spy Lucy Liu - actress Maya Lin (林瓔) - architect (Vietnam Veterans Memorial) Lisa Ling (凌志慧) - TV show host Eric Liu - writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton Gary Locke - Governor of Washington Keye Luke - actor Yoyo Ma - cellist Kim Ng - baseball executive I. M. Pei (貝聿銘) - architect Soong Mei-Ling a.k.a. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Anna Sui - fashion designer Amy Tan - writer Chang-lin Tien - academic, former chancellor UC Berkeley Samuel C. C. Ting - 1976 Nobel laureate, Physics Ming Tsai - chef and restauranteur, writer Chen Ning Yang - Nobel laureate, Physics Henry Yang - chancellor, UC Santa Barbara An Wang - computer engineer Charles Wang (王嘉廉)- founder, CEO, chairman, Computer Associates Taylor Wang -.
List of Korea-related topics - Korea - Dispute over the name Sea of Japan - Division of Korea - DMZ: see Korean Demilitarized Zone - Do - Dongguk Tonggam - Donghae Bukbu Line - Donghae Nambu Line - Donghae-shi E East Asian Tigers - Economy of North Korea - Economy of South Korea - Eight Provinces of Korea - Emperor Gojong of Korea - Emperor Sunjong of Korea - Era name - Eumseong-gun F First Manchu expedition to Korea - Flag of North Korea - Flag of South Korea - Football World Cup 2002 - Foreign relations of North Korea - Foreign relations of South Korea G (See also K) Gabo Reform - Gang Hong-rip - Gangneung - Gangwon - Gayasan - Generation name - Geography of North Korea - Geography of South Korea - Geum.
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Kim Il-sung - Kim Il-sung Kim Il-sung (김일성 ; 金日成) (April 15, 1912 - July 8, 1994) was the autocratic Communist ruler of North Korea from 1948 until his death. To this day, even after his death the North Korean government continues to recognize him as the nation's "eternal" president. He was born Kim Song-ju (김성주; 金成柱) in Pyongi (변경 ; 邊京?) or Mangyongdae (만경대 ; 萬景台) near Pyongyang, Korea. After following his father to Jilin, China in 1925, he studied at Fusong Number One Elementary School (撫松第一小學) for a year, then spent four years in Yuwen Middle School (毓文中學). It is during this period that he organized an anti-imperalist society. He was a founding member of the Young Communist League of Korea in 1927. In 1930, he founded.
Kim Dae-jung - Kim Dae-jung Kim Dae-jung (김대중 ; 金大中, born December 3, 1925) is a South Korean politician. Long an opposition leader, he became president (after Kim Young-sam) in 1997. He first entered politics in 1954, opposing the policies of Syngman Rhee, but did not win a seat in government until 1961. After several arrests in the 1970s, Kim was sentenced to death on charges of sedition and conspiracy; that sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison. In 1985, after a brief exile in the U.S., he resumed his role as one of the principal leaders of the political opposition. When the first democratic presidential election was held in 1987 after ex-general Chun Doo-hwan's retirement, Kim Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam ran against each other, splitting the opposition.
Kim Jong-il - Kim Jong-il Kim Jong Il (left) walking with the late Kim Il Sung (right) Kim Jong-il, 김정일 金正日 (born February 15, 1942) is the current leader of North Korea. Background Kim's father, the late Kim Il Sung, fled to the Soviet Union when the Japanese put a price on his head for guerrilla activities in occupied Korea. The family returned to the northern part of the peninsula after Japan's surrender during World War II, and communist Soviet leader Joseph Stalin anointed Kim Il Sung as the leader of the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. According to official North Korean accounts, Kim Jong was born in a log cabin at his father's guerilla base on North Korea's highest mountain, Mount Paektu, in February 1942. The peak,.
Kimjongilia - Prize-winning kimjongilia exhibited. President Kim Il Sung admires an exhibit of kimjongilia, the flower named after his son in this 1988 photo. Kimjongilia, national flower of North Korea, named after Leader Kim Jong Il. To commemorate Kim Jong Il's 46th birthday in 1988, Japanese botanist Motoderu Kamo cultivated a new perennial begonia named "kimjongilia", representing the Juche revolutionary cause of the Dear Leader, admiration, and loyalty. According to North Korean sources, the flower symbolizes wisdom and good human feelings such as future loving, justice and peace and possesses strong great man bearing. The North Korean government claims that kimjongilia, now the national flower, have widely spread throughout North Korea from the Korean Central Botanical Garden and since to over 60 nations, including the United States and Russia. See also: kimilsungia.
Kim Basinger - Kim Basinger Kim Basinger, born on December 8, 1953 is a notable Hollywood actress. Her most notable apprearances include Nine 1/2 Weeks and L.A. Confidential for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1998..
Kim Young-sam - Kim Young-sam Kim Young-sam (김영삼 金泳三) was the President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a leading opposition politician, along with Kim Dae-jung. When the first democratic presidential election was held in 1987 after ex-general Chun Doo-hwan's retirement, Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung ran against each other, splitting the opposition vote and enabling ex-general Roh Tae-woo--Chun Doo-hwan's hand-picked successor--to win the election. Kim Young-sam ran again in 1992 and won. Although Kim tried to reform the South Korean conglomerates (jaebeol), he is remembered mostly now for the Asian financial crisis, the Korean portion of which began in 1997 (the last year of his tenure) with the collapse of Kia Motors..
Kim Yong Nam - Kim Yong Nam Kim Yong Nam is a North Korean official. Although he is not de jure head of state of North Korea (as no such office exists), he has the role of accepting credentials of ambassadors, making him the de facto head of state..
Kim Yongsan - Kim Yongsan Kim Yongsan (born 1922) is a Korean businessman. He is a pioneer in the industrialization of South Korea, specifically the construction business. In 1948 he founded the Kukdong Business Group, one of the largest construction companies in South Korea. His company has built many famous projects which include; KLCC Building in Kuala Lumpur (currently the second tallest building in the world), Korea World Trade Center, as well as many other projects, both domestically and internationally. He was born in the Kyunggi Province..
Kim Woojung - Kim Woojung Kim Woojung was the founder and former chairman of the Daewoo Business Group..
