Sentences with phrase «world of north»

High season has well and truly arrived on Gili Air and the whole team has had lots of time in - water, introducing new divers to the underwater world of the North Gili islands, showing qualified divers around and more.

-- Newsday «Johnson's novel accomplishes the seemingly impossible: an American writer has masterfully rendered the mysterious world of North Korea with the soul and savvy of a native, from its orphanages and its fishing boats to the kitchens of its high - ranking commanders.

Suki Kim's memoir, Without You, There Is No Us, is a fascinating, first - hand look into the strange world of the North Korean elite.

In her first novel, the author — who was born in South Korea — takes readers into the little - known world of North Korea, where three very different people's destinies collide after they escape to North Korea's border with China.

According to the world of North Country, it's not terrible enough that awful things happen to a real live person — no, awful things have to happen to Mother - freakin» - Teresa.

A former Chicago truck driver, Ray could certainly find his way around, but when he called me with an invitation to explore the world of North Carolina barbecue as part of the research for his third book, Dr. BBQ's Barbecue Road Trip, how could I refuse?

In the world of North American higher education most theological schools are like crossroads hamlets.

In a triangular world of North America, an Asia dominated by China and Japan, and Europe, the interplay between the three is shifting.

The average Christian in the world today is a poor person, very poor indeed by the standards of the white worlds of North America and Western Europe.

Not exact matches

For a couple of decades, a big part of Canada's sales pitch to international investors has been that the North American Free Trade Agreement works as a backdoor to the world's most voracious consumers.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un has bought his way in to talks with China's President Xi Jinping, South Korea's President Moon Jae - in, and US President Donald Trump with a commitment to denuclearize his country — but doing so could open up the world to the tremendous risk of loose nukes and loose nuclear scientists.

BEIJING, May 2 (Reuters)- Chinese property speculators are starting to bet on a rapid improvement in relations between North Korea and the rest of the world, pushing up prices in the border city of Dandong and even spurring buying interest in the world's most isolated country.

But Chinese exports of automobile parts to North America are growing about a percentage point slower than they are to the rest of the world, suggesting NAFTA actually makes U.S. automobile companies more competitive.

Getting elected president of CONCACAF [the 41 - nation arm of the world soccer federation representing North and Central America and the Caribbean, in May] just means it involves more travel and more conversations across time zones.

BEIJING, May 2 - Chinese property speculators are starting to bet on a rapid improvement in relations between North Korea and the rest of the world, pushing up prices in the border city of Dandong and even spurring buying interest in the world's most isolated country.

The North Korean malware program WannaCry did serious damage to computers around the world last year, but it would have been much worse if not for the rapid discovery of a flaw in the attack found by young British security researcher Marcus Hutchins.

Hugh Evans was 2 - years - old when Bob Geldof's charity concert Live Aid beamed images of starving people in north Africa around the world in 1985, raising # 30 million ($ 40.3 million) to help them.

Yet Macron offered momentary comfort to foreign policy veterans of past administrations — the «establishment» Trump has disdained — who fear for the future of institutions such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization.

As the world's population explodes and resources dwindle, dozens of recently launched North American startups are betting that edible insects will be part of the future of food.

Currently, China accounts for more than 90 % of the world's rare earth production, and a number of Chinese miners have operations in North Korea.

It's no surprise to the retired Telus employee that the Swiss - based Skytrax World Airport Awards recently named YVR the best airport in North America — eighth in the world — for the fourth consecutive year, based on a survey of 12 million travellers worldWorld Airport Awards recently named YVR the best airport in North America — eighth in the world — for the fourth consecutive year, based on a survey of 12 million travellers worldworld — for the fourth consecutive year, based on a survey of 12 million travellers worldwide.

The incalculable nature of President Donald Trump's foreign policy may be causing angst across the Western world, but it's also an effective tool against the threat from North Korea, John Studzinski, vice chairman of Blackstone, told CNBC.

Heading into Tuesday's earnings report, Wall Street had fretted about the strength of the world's largest athletic gear maker at a time when Under Armour (ua), Adidas and other rivals were posting stronger sales in the competitive North American market.

Vietnam, one of the world's last remaining bastions of communism (along with China, North Korea, and Cuba) has gone gaga over Apple, one of the world's biggest symbols of free market capitalism and the Western lifestyle.

It just moved on — to China and then maybe even North Korea, home to Lazarus, one of the world's most active state - sponsored hacking collectives.

About 90 percent of North Korea's trade is with China, and Chinese junket operators are well equipped to use the formal banking sector and informal financial networks created by the Chinese traders and small businessmen who've crisscrossed the world for 1,000 years, says Andrew Klebanow, a senior partner at Global Market Advisors LLC in Las Vegas.

As North America's largest manufacturer of made - to - order leather furniture, Palliser Furniture Upholstery Ltd. distributes its products across Canada and the world.

While hundreds of millions of the world's people get ready to watch the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Sunday, North Koreans are still waiting to see the first event.

As has been expertly documented by North Korea analysts such as Narushige Michishita, Pyongyang's rulers are nothing if not consistent and strategic in their approach to the rest of the world.

Restrictions on the freedom of information, and the media, in North Korea are the most stringent in the world.

The north is well aware that even in the crude terms of oil and supplies, it almost certainly lacks the funds to pay for any kind of sustained military campaign, despite having one of the world's largest standing armies.

The Korean Peninsula is split along the 38th Parallel North, the border that divided the U.S. and Soviet Union's respective administrations of the South and North just after World War II.

«North Korean athletes are competing on the world stage, even if they're not winning,» said Martyn Williams, a North Korea media watcher and creator of the North Korea Tech website.

To that end, we have teamed up with the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler Business School — a recognized leader in online business education — to create an innovative executive certificate program called: Change the World: Leading with Purpose.

It is considered essential for Canadian gas producers, who have access to some of the richest gas fields in the world in Northern Alberta and British Columbia, but face depressed prices due to a glut of gas in North America.

Linde North America, one of the world's largest industrial gas suppliers, has just launched a virtual reality training course for its drivers designed to improve safety and accuracy in the loading and unloading of hazardous liquid gases.

«The largest land masses in the world today that are currently underutilized are north of the 45th latitude,» he says.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

Nervous travelers have had plenty of real - world examples this summer, from a power outage in the Outer Banks off North Carolina that forced the evacuation of an estimated 50,000 visitors and prevented the arrival of many more, to Tropical Storm Cindy, which affected travel in five states.

Life expectancy at birth Infant mortality rate (figures for Korea and New Zealand were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of population over age 15 considered obese and overweight Prison population rate Motor vehicles per 1,000 people Road fatalities per million people Road fatalities per million vehicles (figures for Mexico taken from the North American Transportation Statistics Database)

According to the Passport Index, the North Korean passport grants its bearers access to just 41 countries, making it one of the weakest in the world.

It has several assets already on the sale block in the North Sea and elsewhere around the world and has already exited some of its higher - risk exploration areas, such as Peru.

America might be on its way to become a net oil exporter, but there's no reason why this should get in the way of building pipelines that connect different types of oil plays to the refiners best equipped to turn their crude into the petroleum products that feed North America's economy and the world's.

Discussing just how concerned the world should be with the aggressive tenor coming out of North Korea, and whether the U.S. is doing enough to combat hackers, with Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense.

«The priorities of his rewrite, if Canada and Mexico agree, are supposed to restrict North American trade and investment, not boost our competitiveness with the world.»

Add to that a moribund economy and military hostility off its shores in the form of North Korea and China, and Japan may have the widest range of worries in the world.

If that and other planned expansions go ahead, Vancouver, which has visions of becoming the world's greenest city, could instead increase its capacity to export the black stuff by almost half, becoming North America's largest coal port.

A 2008 U.S. geological survey pegged oil reserves north of the Arctic Circle at 90 billion barrels — or 13 % of the projected undiscovered oil in the world — and 44 billion barrels of natural gas liquids.

I was one of the highest - ranked World of Warcraft players in North America, with a gaming blog that had more than 10,000 daily readers.

Laurence C. Smith, a UCLA earth sciences professor and author of The World in 2050, a 2010 book that examines how demographics, natural resources, globalization and climate change will transfer economic might to the north, says, «In Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.»