December Current Affairs
•Typhoon Bopha, the strongest ever tropical cyclone hit the Philippines, caused wide-spread floods in the Philippines.
•China launched service on the world’s longest high-speed railway with trains scheduled to run 2,298 kilometres between Beijing and Guangzhou in about eight hours.
•Shinzo Abe was elected Japan’s prime minister by the lower house of parliament.
•US President Barack Obama has been named the ‘2012 Person of the Year’ by Time magazine.
•South Korea elected its first woman President, Park Geun-hye. She was the daughter of South Korea's former military ruler, Park Chung-Hee.
•Anna Ushenina of Ukraine won the Women’s World Chess championship, defeating Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria.
•NASA's Mercury-orbiting probe, Messenger, has confirmed the presence of ice at Mercury’s North Pole.
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