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Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

Shafiqul Bashar

Bangladesh, President of AJA Bangladesh Chapter

The Myanmar government has assured Dhaka again of starting the repatriation process of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as soon as the situation becomes stable in its Rakhine state. The assurance came at the 7th round of Foreign Office C ...

International students gather to promote foreign investment in Korea

Gabrielle Bishop

Canada, Junior AJA reporter, Undergraduate student of the Global Studies Department at Vancouver Island University in Canada, Exchange student at Chung-Ang University in Korea

Hailing from 22 countries and speaking over 30 languages, Invest Korea recently welcomed 35 international students into its inaugural youth ambassador program. These students will be the faces of the first-ever Friends of Invest Kore ...

Georgia's standpoint on South Ossetia, Abkhazia conflict with Russia

Nikoloz Apkhazava

Ambassador of Georgia to the Republic of Korea

Counterarguments to the Article of the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Korea In connection with my article devoted to the Day of Independence of Georgia (May 24, 2013), the Russian ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Mr. Vnu ...

[Egypt Report] Samsung completes first Middle East factory in Egypt

Egypt, Junior AJA reporter, Graduate student at KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Korea

Global IT giant, Samsung Electronics will start producing TV sets this month in the first Middle East factory in Egypt. The factory has been built at the Kom Abu Radi Industrial Zone in Beni Suef covering 336,000m², making it the first ...

China, US ready to open new chapter

The AsiaN Editor

news@theasian.asia

The just-concluded two-day summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama will have an important and positive impact on the future growth of China-US relations as well as peace and stability in the Asia- ...

FTA opens doors for wider markets for both Turkey and Korea

The AsiaN Reporter

Interview with the Turkish Ambassador to Korea Mustafa Naci Saribas Turkey and Korea embark on the first steps of a strategic partnership as a free trade agreement came in effect on May 1, 2013. In a recent interview with The AsiaN a ...

[Asia Round-up] China's princelings in high posts

The AsiaN Editor

news@theasian.asia

Editor's note: Followings are summaries of editorials from major Asian media on current issues. China's princelings in high posts [Singapore, The Straits Times, 29-05-2013] News of newly retired Chinese president Hu Jintao’s son ente ...

[Junior AJA Talk] What would you do for Asia if you were UN Sec-Gen?

The AsiaN Reporter

The Asia Journalist Association(AJA) has created the Junior AJA program to allow for international students to experience journalism and expand their perspective of their country, Asia and the world through workshops, writing ...

IT means democratising of information

The AsiaN Reporter

Interview with internet and education activist Wael Ghonim Wael Ghonim, 32, became an international figure in 2011 for his role in the pro-democracy revolution in Egypt as co-creator and administrator of the Facebook page that helped spa ...

[Malaysia Report] Penang tourism fair on the way

Malaysia, Junior AJA reporter, MA from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Korea University in Korea

Penang MATTA Fair 2013 second season on the way! The second season of the Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agent (MATTA) Fair 2013 will be held from 5 July to 7 July at the Penang Times Square from 10am to 9pm, according to Berna ...

Bangkok ranked world’s top tourist destination

The AsiaN Reporter

Bangkok has emerged as the world’s top tourist destination, with 15.98 million visitors projected to visit the Thailand’s capital city this year, according to the 2013 Global Destination Cities Index released by MasterCard on May 27. ...

G8 leaders call for coalition government in Syria

Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

Turkish protesters stand still and silent at Taksim Square

Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

US-Taliban to hold talks on ending Afghan war

Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

98,000 Filipinos displaced by flash floods

Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

Chinese film festival opens in New Delhi, India

Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

Bomb blast hits funeral gathering in Pakistan killing over 20

Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

Indian farmers protest against gov't decision on Special Investment Region

Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

Herdsmen of Owenke ethnic group wrestle at Sebin Festival in Inner Mongolia

Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

Hindu devotees celebrate Ganga Dussehra, worship of River Ganges

Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

Cambodia-Thailand agree to establish two special economic zones

Myanmar assures Bangladesh again to take back Rohingya refugees

Floods wreaks havoc in western Nepal and northern India

Nepal, Reporter of The Rising Nepal

Kathmandu- Incessant monsoon rains have wreaked havoc in western Nepal. Dozens of people were killed in the floods and mudslides triggered by the heavy rain. About 60 houses, including 11 government offices and a hospital of Darchula di ...

N. Korea: player in the Gwangju Democratic Uprising?

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

Korean history as seen in South Korea is deeply contentious. It is not incidental that many school textbooks prefer to stop their narrative around 1960, quietly assuming that what happened after is too controversial for anything resembl ...

ADIPEC Awards to recognize female empowerment in gas and oil sector

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

Young ADIPEC Engineer Category Seeks to Groom Future Leaders and Innovators Regional Jury Panel Includes Two Experts from Kuwait’s Oil and Gas Industry The Abu Dhabi Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) Awards, which recogni ...

Using dung-cakes as fuel in resource rich Pakistan

Pakistan, Pakistan Press International Editor, Contributor for The AsiaN

People using firewood and dung-cakes as fuel in Pakistan Pakistan is bestowed with abundant natural resources including oil, gas, coal, hydro, wind and solar to meet its all requirements yet it’s faced with severe energy crisis, unpr ...

[Book Review] The Bamboo Stick: Dispersion between two worlds

Egypt, Managing Editor of the AsiaN's Middle East Bureau, Graduate Student of Mass Communication and Journalism at Ahram Canadian University

The Bamboo Stick: Dispersion between two worlds "The Bamboo Stick" is a novel by Kuwaiti writer Saud Al-Sanousi, which recently won the Booker prize for Arabic novels. It shows the story of Eissa or José, whose mother is Filipino while h ...

Can India's government empower its people?

India, SPOTFILMS CEO, FORMEDIA Chairman

Commercial forestry: A legacy of British rule The Indian politician and the bureaucrat have struggled for the past 65 years to shed the legacy and the mechanisms of British rule and empower the people but have failed...why? As is ...

Common Sense Approach to Conflicts in East Asia

Singapore, President of Asia Journalist Association

Joint Project between the Northeast Asian History Foundation and The AsiaN *Editor's Note: Security in East Asia is swaying in a rough sea. North Korea's nuclear crisis has been highly elated amid existing territorial disputes and de ...