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Kyrgyz President Prepares To Cast Ballot To Elect Members Of Local Legislatures

Kyrgyz President Prepares To Cast Ballot To Elect Members Of Local Legislatures

The AsiaN Editor

news@theasian.asia

Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev (R, front) prepares to cast his ballot at a polling station in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Nov. 25, 2012. Kyrgyz voters in 25 cities and 416 rural districts went to the polls Sunday to elect members of local legislatures in the central Asian

26 Nov 2012

[Korea Report] Matviyenko gives speech for Korean and Russian students

[Korea Report] Matviyenko gives speech for Korean and Russian students

Meidyana Rayana

Indonesia, Intern Reporter, Graduate Student of Political Science and Economics at Korea University

Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko delivers speech at Korea University, Seoul (Photo: Meidyana Rayana) Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko, Russian highest-ranking politician, delivered a speech for the students of Korea University, Seoul. Matviyenko is currently Chairman of The

14 Nov 2012

The AsiaN hoped to grow as a media representing Asia & Middle East on occasion of its first founding anniversary

On Nov. 11, 2012, The AsiaN will celebrates its first anniversary of its foundation as an international news media. The AsiaN will add its significance to journalism world in Asia and Middle East since it would also launch its Arabic version following Korean, Engli

Meidyana Rayana | news@theasian.asia | 11 Nov 2012

[The AsiaN 1st Anniv] Message from Andrey Olfert

[The AsiaN 1st Anniv] Message from Andrey Olfert

Russia, Voice of Russia

9 Nov 2012

[The AsiaN 1st Anniv] The AsiaN proves trendsetter

During my visits to Republic of Korea for two consecutive years in 2007 and 2008 at the invitation of Asia Journalists Association AJA, Mr. Lee Sang-Ki had hinted about taking some new initiatives, but I had no slightest idea that he and his team would be providing anoth

Nasir Aijaz | news@theasian.asia | 9 Nov 2012

Vietnamese President Talks With Russian PM At His Office In Hanoi

Vietnamese President Talks With Russian PM At His Office In Hanoi

The AsiaN Editor

news@theasian.asia

Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang (R) meets with visiting Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the President Office in Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov. 7, 2012. Dmitry Medvedev is in Hanoi for a two-day visit to Vietnam. <Xinhua/VNA> Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Med

8 Nov 2012

How to use nuke energy safely – for more secure world

How to use nuke energy safely – for more secure world

Korea, Pressian & CBS Columnist, TBS English Commentator

1. Efforts for nuke weapon 2012 Nuclear Security Summit 1) The 2nd NSS was held in Seoul 26~27, Mar. 2) 58 summits adopted ‘Seoul Commuinique’ -eliminate or reduce HEU by the end of 2013. 3) Further progress compared to Washington Summit. 4) Nuclear security is on

31 Oct 2012

Will Pletnev lead rebirth of KBS Symphony?

Will Pletnev lead rebirth of KBS Symphony?

The AsiaN Editor

news@theasian.asia

Russian virtuoso Mikhail Pletnev will conduct a special concert of the KBS Symphony on Nov. 30. / Korea Times file After months of cancellations, the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) Symphony Orchestra will finally hold a concert next month. All eyes will be on the Russi

29 Oct 2012

Putin Attends Meeting Of Valdai International Discussion Club Of Scholars In Moscow

Putin Attends Meeting Of Valdai International Discussion Club Of Scholars In Moscow

The AsiaN Editor

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R), gestures during a meeting of the Valdai international discussion club of scholars in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 25, 2012. <Xinhua/Jiang Kehong>

26 Oct 2012

Beware of silent illness in liver

Beware of silent illness in liver

The AsiaN Editor

news@theasian.asia

There is a saying in Korea that if a body is worth 1,000 won, then the liver comprises 900 won of that. Many people know that liver is important, but few people treat it as such. The liver is called the “silent organ,” as there are no symptoms even if 70 to 80 perce

21 Oct 2012

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Kaesong: A 'hot potato' for N. Korea

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

So far, the Kaesong industrial zone, the largest intra-Korean economic project, has survived three nuclear tests, a number of long-range missile launches and a few armed clashes on the Korean peninsula. All these have killed other under ...

Tehran celebrates publishing of Ashraf Aboul-Yazid's poems in Persian

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

Egyptian poet and novelist Ashraf Aboul-Yazid celebrated the publishing of his poems in Persian during Tehran International Book Fair. The ceremony started by reciting poems in Arabic, by the poet, and their equivalent in Persian, by ...

350 climbers including handless Nepali reach atop Mt. Everest, 4 dead

Nepal, Reporter of The Rising Nepal

Kathmandu - Nearly 350 climbers reached atop Mt. Everest by May 20 this year. A total of 94 climbers, including Sudarshan Gautam, a handless (not having both hands) Nepali, reached atop Mount Everest on Monday, thanks to the favourable ...

NGOs hide identity for fear of militants in restive Balochistan Province

Pakistan, Pakistan Press International Editor, Contributor for The AsiaN

Quetta, Balochistan - A grave situation prevails in restive Balochistan province of Pakistan, bordering Iran and Afghanistan, where the civil society organizations have removed boards and name plates from their office buildings, their s ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...