Korean woman wins Solti conducting competition
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A 31-year-old South Korean, Shi-Yeon Sung, has become the first woman to win the prestigious Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition, held here every two years.
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TEHRAN (MNA) - Sydney bronze medalist Hadi Saei from Iran won the coveted gold of -68kg taekwondo tournament of 2004 Athens Olympic Games Friday.
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Being female and Chinese in the classical music business are helpful in getting yourself noticed, but careers are built â and this one is building fast â on substance. Xian Zhang has it.
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Zhang Yining beats North Korea's Kim Hyang-Mi to win the table tennis women's singles.
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A Singapore housewife beat traders from top banks such as Merrill Lynch to win a warrant-trading competition, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
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The diminutive Chinese conductor Xian Zhangâs passionate musicality and boundless energy led her from a small town in China to the New York Philharmonic.
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The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize was today presented with her award in Oslo against a backdrop of drums and dancers.
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Japan's Mao Asada took the women's gold medal at the Four Continents championships yesterday in Goyang, South Korea, by recording a season-best total score of 193.25, defeating world champion compatriot Miko Ando.
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The female musicians wore headscarves, but that didn't hinder them in playing Beethoven and Brahms in a rare performance by a Western classical orchestra in the capital of the Islamic Republic.
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The talented actress wins a National Award.
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On the heels of plans by the New York Philharmonic to perform in North Korea comes word that the 120-member North Korea State Symphony Orchestra is to play two concerts in England. The Guardian of London reported that after three years of planning and organizing, that orchestra will perform in September at the Royal Festival Hall in London and in Middlesbrough in northeast England. The visit was described as the âbrainchildâ of the opera singer Suzannah Clarke, who, in 2003, became the first British singer to perform in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The newspaper said that she had suggested that her hosts invite other foreign musicians to North Korea and send its orchestra abroad. Ms. Clarke comes from Middlesbrough.
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JEJU, South Korea : Grace Park of South Korea won an LPGA Tour tournament, firing a seven-under-par 65 in the final round of the 1.35-million dollar CJ Nine Bridges Classic.
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The daughter of South Korea's assassinated president Park Chung-hee on Monday launched a bid to be the country's first woman leader in a race dominated by her main challenger for the opposition conservative's nomination.
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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova beat Emmanuelle Gagliardi of Switzerland 6-1, 6-3 Tuesday in the first round of the Korea Open.
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BARDOLINO, Italy -- Swiss racer Karin Thurig won the women&#39;s world time trial title at the championships in Bardolino, to claim her first major international crown.
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Wimbledon tennis champion Maria Sharapova outclassed Poland&#39;s Marta Domachowska 6-1, 6-1 to win the inaugural Korea Open yesterday.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Norway&#39;s Marit Bjoergen won her third straight cross-country skiing World Cup event by taking the women&#39;s 1.2-kilometre classical style Tuesday in Asiago, Italy.