Facts Dec 2013

International

1. South Korean President Park Geun Hye and Capital Seoul
2. Chile is the world’s top copper exporter, and its fast-growing economy, low unemployment and stable democracy are the envy of Latin America. 
3. Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov : President of Turkmenistan.Capital : Ashgabat
4. Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia.

News-Facts

1. Pre-COP (Conference of Parties) 2013, is organised to firm up the agenda for the meeting, where all member-countries of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change gather held at POLAND.
2. Wrestling schools in rural western Maharashtra are called taleems, not akharas.
3. Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
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Nobel Prize 2013

Economics :

Economics Nobel Prize : Shared by Eugene Fama, Robert Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen. Their work ranges from the foundations of modern finance (Fama) to defects in the mainstream models (Fama and Shiller) and improvements in statistical methodology (Fama and Hansen).

Nobel Prize 2013

Medicine

• The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Dr. James E. Rothman, Dr. Randy W. Schekman and Dr. Thomas C. Südhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.