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Shaky financial market

The Korea Times

Media in Tie-up with The AsiaN

KOSPI dips below 1800 on Europe worries This week was a nightmare for Korea’s financial markets, which fell sharply due to renewed fears over another economic downturn fueled by the Greek crisis. In the coming weeks, investors are expect ...

20 May 2012

Revolutionary thinker held in Chinese custody

The Korea Times

Media in Tie-up with The AsiaN

Kim Young-hwan, one of four South Korean human rights activists held in China for 51 days so far, is a revolutionary thinker whose career has taken many dramatic turns. During the 1980s he was part of a communist movement that attemp ...

20 May 2012

Shameless!

The Korea Times

Media in Tie-up with The AsiaN

Japan expresses regret over 'comfort women' museum Japan protested to Korea’s foreign ministry earlier this month over the government’s financing a museum in Seoul dedicated to raising awareness of wartime sex slavery under Japanese ...

20 May 2012

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

The Korea Times

Media in Tie-up with The AsiaN

Samsung Electronics said Friday that it has developed and patented methods to use graphene in field-effect transistors (FETs) that may revolutionize computers. The breakthrough has been published in the online edition of Science Magazine ...

20 May 2012

Caste system in India to fade away by itself

India, SPOTFILMS CEO, FORMEDIA Chairman

In 1945, just a year earlier than I was born, English author, George Orwell wrote an allegorical novella called “Animal Farm”. The lines that became most famous and are quoted by many were, “all animals are equal, but some animals are mor ...

17 May 2012

Teacher's Day gathering leaves deep impression

USA, Social Responsibility Team in International Peace Sports Federation

On the evening of May 15, about 50 people from various sectors in society including journalists, professors, artists, musicians, and international students came together at the Seoul Press Center to take part in the Asia Journalist Associat ...

16 May 2012

Nepali plane crash claims 15 dead and six injured

Nepal, Reporter of The Rising Nepal

KATHMANDU, Nepal--Thirteen passengers and two crew members died Monday morning when a Dornier 9N AIG-D228 plane of Agni Air crashed in Jomsom Airport in western mountains of Nepal. The ill-fated plane was flying to Jomsom from touris ...

15 May 2012

The AsiaN's Chinese edition opens on May 11

The AsiaN Reporter

The AsiaN has started publishing the Chinese edition (cn.theasian.asia) on the occasion of its half year founding anniversary which fell on Friday (May 11). This is the third following the Korean and English editions. We are ready to pr ...

11 May 2012

Ashraf Aboul-Yazid's poems published in Turkish

The AsiaN Editor

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*Editor's note: Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, chief of The AsiaN Middle East bureau, is not only a noted journalist but also a famous poet and novelist in the region. Born in Egypt, he is now active in Kuwait writing stories on wide rage of topics fo ...

07 May 2012

AJA issues statement on World Press Freedom Day

The AsiaN Reporter

On the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day which fell on Thursday (May 3), the Asia Journalist Association (AJA), represented by Ivan Lim, issued a statement in which it said "we would like to applaud the journalists doing their best ...

03 May 2012

Japan solidifies ties with India

Nantoo Banerjee

India, Consulting Editor and Weekly Columnist at the India Press Agency

Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba(L) shakes hands with Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna before addressing a press conference in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 30, 2012. <AP/Newsis> This week, Japan’s Foreign Minister Koic ...

02 May 2012

Jim Yong Kim deserves being head of World Bank

Boston Korea Columnist, MD

File photo taken on March 23, 2012 shows Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim attending the nomination ceremony as the next president of the World Bank, at the White House in Washington D.C., the United States. <AP/Newsis> On Apr ...

01 May 2012

U.S.-Pakistani high level talks make no headway

Pakistan, Chief Editor of Pakistan Press International(PPI)

The first high level official talks between the United States and Pakistan were held in Islamabad on April 26-27, 2012 for ending the deadlock after American aircraft attack on Pakistan's check post near the border with Afghanistan on Novem ...

01 May 2012

Letter from Guagua Bo

China, Dept. of Political Science at National University of Singapore, Former Reporter for CCTV

Guagua Bo, the son of dismissed Chinese Politburo member Bo Xilai, sent an exclusive statement to Harvard Kennedy School. In his statement, the 24-year-old Harvard student attempts to clarify some facts regarding to his scholarship, his ...

25 April 2012

Works of disabled painter exhibited in UN

The AsiaN Reporter

Dennis Han(34 years old)’s Painting Exhibition was held on April 9 - 13 at the United Nations Delegates’ Entrance. Dennis Han, despite his disability, portrays pure human hopes and dreams. On the evening of Monday 9 April, th ...

17 April 2012

Koreans to challenge seemingly impossible voyage on raft

The AsiaN Reporter

Prof. Youn Myung-chul of Dongguk University speaks about his coming adventure. Five Korean adventurers will set sail in May on a seemingly impossible voyage from the Philippines to South Korea on a bamboo raft propelled only by the wind an ...

17 April 2012

China's reaction to NK rocket launch

China, Researcher at the Korea Research Institute of Jilin Social Science Academy, The AsiaN Reporter

People are wondering how China react to a series of events which took place in North Korea including failed missile launching and centennial celebration of Kim Il-sung's birth. Besides official announcement by Chinese gover ...

18 April 2012

Traditional Coming-Of-Age Ceremony

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

20 May 2012

Uncertainty Sinks Asian Equity Market

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

18 May 2012

Ethnic Groups Show-Off Their Dresses

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

20 May 2012

Heat Drives People Out Of Homes

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

18 May 2012

Olympic Flame Ignited For Torch Relay To London

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

18 May 2012

Childrean's Priceless Smile

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

20 May 2012

Lineup of New French Cabinet

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

18 May 2012

Falling Value Of Indian Rupee

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

17 May 2012

"Scarborough Shoal Is Our Land"

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

17 May 2012

Unseasonal Snow, Startled Cows

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

16 May 2012

"We'll Never Leave Our Homes Again"

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

15 May 2012

Kim Yong-nam's Visit To Indonesia

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

14 May 2012

Anti-Israel Rally Going Violent

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

14 May 2012

A Statue Ready To Die?

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

12 May 2012

Presidential Race Gets Heated In Egypt

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

12 May 2012

<Top N> Major news in Japan on May 18: Toshiba pulls the plug on making televisions in Japan

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

18 May 2012

Imprisonment of 33 opposition leaders heightens tension in Bangladesh

Abdur Rahman Khan

Bangladesh, City Editor for The New Nation, Contributor for The Holiday, General secretary of AJA Bangladesh chapter

DHAKA - In a quickly developed political tension in Bangladesh, thirty-three key leaders of the 18-party opposition alliances were sent to Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday promting another spell of violence and unrest in ...

17 May 2012

A Singaporean temple goes ahead in practicing green energe

Singapore, President of Asia Journalist Association

Spiritual food for the soul is what you get when you visit any Buddhist shrine in Asia … until you step into the Poh Ern Shih (Temple of Thanksgiving) in Singapore. There, you will receive something more, something scientific and enlighte ...

14 May 2012

Pakistani brick-making workers suffer inhumane treatment

Pakistan, Pakistan Press International Editor, Contributor for The AsiaN

Mud bricks and fire-baked bricks are used in construction across Pakistan except Karachi, the biggest city of the country located at Arabian Sea Coast in South where the buildings are erected using concrete blocks. The mud bricks a ...

14 May 2012

Kuwaiti painter seeks to expose social contradictions

Egypt, Editor of Al-Arabi Magazine in Kuwait, Chief of The AsiaN's Middle East Bureau

Ghada Alkandari "A Pretty Green Bullet" “My name is Ghada Alkandari, an artist and ambitious blogger from Kuwait. I only realized that when I started my blog in April 2010, and I was also sure that I’m a diarist and painter. To me the b ...

14 May 2012

NK's move to control Sakhalin Koreans foiled

Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov

Russia, Attended Kim Il-sung University, PhD in Korean History, Leningrad State University, Professor at Australian National University(1996), Professor at Kookmin University, Contributor for The AsiaN

The former Soviet Union was home to the world’s fourth largest overseas Korean community. At the time of the break of the Soviet Union in 1991, some 450,000 of its inhabitants were of Korean heritage. After the collapse of the Soviet Un ...

02 May 2012

[China Now] Aging society, a new challenge

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

09 April 2012

Roadside barbers in Pakistan

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

21 April 2012

[Girls' Generation] TTS_Twinkle

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

08 May 2012

<The AsiaN Video for Chinese> AJA教师节聚会的深刻印象

Samsung may innovate chip-making process

17 May 2012