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G8 leadership remains divided on Syria conflict

G8 leadership remains divided on Syria conflict

The AsiaN Editor

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Prime Minister David Cameron chairs an EU/US trade summit with US President Barack Obama (left), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) and French President Francoise Hollande (not pictured) at this year's G8 Summit on Lough Erne near Enniskillen in Northern Ireland

18 Jun 2013

North Korea proposes senior-level talk with US

North Korea proposes senior-level talk with US

The AsiaN Editor

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Tens of thousands of North Koreans, including students, farmers and factory workers, gather on Friday, June 14, 2013, at a rally at Kim Il Sung Square on Pyongyang, North Korea, in support of a call from leader Kim Jong Un to carry out construction projects with what he

18 Jun 2013

Germany creates 8 billion euros fund on recent flooding

Germany creates 8 billion euros fund on recent flooding

The AsiaN Editor

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures as she talks with helpers during her visit to river Elbe in Hitzacker, northern Germany, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Merkel visits the city to get first hand information of the flood situation and to thank the volunteers who help to

14 Jun 2013

World celebrates prince of Russian poetry Alexander Pushkin

World celebrates prince of Russian poetry Alexander Pushkin

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

The president amid the celebrants (Photo : Raisa Safiullah) On the day of the Russian language: The world celebrates prince of Russian poetry Alexander Pushkin For almost 150 million people, the Russian language is considered their mother tongue, added to that figure nea

13 Jun 2013

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

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. Vnukov published the reciprocal article

13 Jun 2013

Nelson Mandela responds better to treatment in hospital

Nelson Mandela responds better to treatment in hospital

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This photo taken July 18, 2012 shows former South African President Nelson Mandela during the celebration of his 94th birthday in Qunu, South Africa. Mandela?s condition remained serious but stable on Monday, 10.6.2013, his third day in a Pretoria hospital, the South Afr

13 Jun 2013

Obama-Xi reach ‘firm understanding’ on N. Korea’s nuclear issues

Obama-Xi reach ‘firm understanding’ on N. Korea’s nuclear issues

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) poses for a photo with U.S. President Barack Obama before their meeting at the Annenberg Retreat, California, the United States, June 7, 2013. (Photo : Xinhua/Xie Huanchi) President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s 50

10 Jun 2013

Libyan proptesters attack on pro-government militias, 28 dead

Libyan proptesters attack on pro-government militias, 28 dead

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In this Saturday, June 8, 2013 photo, Libyans help a wounded man during fighting outside the office of the Libya Shield pro-government militia in Benghazi, Libya. The violence which left dozens of people dead broke out Saturday when protesters stormed a base belonging to

10 Jun 2013

Global Summit of Women 2013 held in Kuala Lumpur

Global Summit of Women 2013 held in Kuala Lumpur

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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak addresses the opening ceremony of the Global Summit of Women 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, on June 6, 2013. The three-day summit opened here on Thursday, attracting women leaders and representatives from more than 20 cou

7 Jun 2013

Xi and Obama talks on cybersecurity and N. Korea’s nuclear threats

Xi and Obama talks on cybersecurity and N. Korea’s nuclear threats

The AsiaN Editor

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In this Feb. 14, 2012, file photo President Barack Obama and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, left, engage media during their Oval Office meeting at the White House in Washington. When Obama and Jinping meet again at week's end for an unusual two-day summit at a So

7 Jun 2013

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Cambodia-Thailand agree to establish two special economic zones

Xi and Obama talks on cybersecurity and N. Korea’s nuclear threats

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 ...

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 ...

World celebrates prince of Russian poetry Alexander Pushkin

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

On the day of the Russian language: The world celebrates prince of Russian poetry Alexander Pushkin For almost 150 million people, the Russian language is considered their mother tongue, added to that figure nearly 100 million more w ...

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 ...

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 ...