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[Junior AJA] Learning Korean can't be done 'pali pali'

Mexico, Junior AJA reporter, PhD student of the Department of Sociology, Kangwon National University in Korea

Learning Korean is not pali pali (빨리 빨리) One of the first things I learned upon arrival to Korea was the culture of doing things quickly (빨리 빨리 문화). In fact, this country achieved a developed economy within about 50 years. If one looks a ...

Looking into North with hope for 'United Korea'

Edmond Atemnkeng

Cameroon, The AsiaN Global Reporter, Works for Johnson & Johnson Korea

Prospects of a Unified Korea: Visit to Odu Mountain Unification Observatory In an effort to attract FDIs (Foreign Direct Investments) into Korea, over 30 foreign students participated in the Friends of Invest Korea’s Program as ambas ...

North Korea sanctions threaten humanitarian aid group

The AsiaN Editor

news@theasian.asia

Aid agencies helping millions of people in North Korea could be forced to pull out after a Chinese bank cut ties with main foreign exchange bank, a humanitarian group said on May 22. The freeze - imposed amid growing concern over North K ...

[Canada Report] Canadian veterans of Korean War make commemorative visit

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

Below is a round-up of recent news from Canada concerning Canada and Asia-Pacific relations. Canadian veterans of the Korean War make commemorative visit Often dubbed “the Forgotten War,” the Korean War remains a largely under-rec ...

Asia’s currency war escalates

The AsiaN Editor

news@theasian.asia

Editor’s note: The recent weakening of the Japanese yen is sparking responses across the region. Following article published in the online version of The Diplomat explains the possible implications of Asia’s currency war. Global fina ...

Asia-Pacific leaders warn of water conflict threat

The AsiaN Reporter

Fierce competition for water could trigger conflict unless nations cooperate to share the diminishing resource, leaders from Asia-Pacific nations warned on May 20 at a regional water security forum. From Central to Southeast Asia, re ...

Vietnam rises as top smartphone producer

The AsiaN Reporter

Vietnam is becoming a leading smartphone producer in the world as world electronics giants increase investments in Vietnam, Japan's economic daily Nihon Keizai reports. According to its recent article, with the Samsung Electronics Vi ...

[Asia Round-up] Slap in the face for women

The AsiaN Editor

news@theasian.asia

Editor's note: Followings are summaries of editorials from major Asian media on current issues. Slap in the face for women [India, Hindustan Times, 15-05-2013] After the huge demonstrations following the December 16 Delhi gang rape i ...

Savar tragedy opens eyes to labour issues in Bangladesh's RMG industry

Shafiqul Bashar

Bangladesh, President of AJA Bangladesh Chapter

Rescue operation ends, leaves jolt for Bangladesh’s RMG industry Dhaka - The rescue operation to recover the bodies from the rubble of the collapsed nine-storey Rana Plaza building in Savar near Bangladesh capital Dhaka came to an en ...

Hong Kong ranked world's most expensive retail space

The AsiaN Reporter

The Asia’s shopping haven Hong Kong has been ranked again the world's most expensive global retail market, according to a new report by global property advisor CBRE Group Inc. released on May 12. Hong Kong’s annual retail rent in high-en ...

Filipino protesters demand safety of Filipino workers in Taiwan

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

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sends special envoy to China

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

Nepali Rato Machhindranath chariot festival held in suburban Kathmandu

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

More than 10,000 Jews attend celebrated Rabbi's wedding

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

Indonesian city personnel evict illegal housings of poor

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

Chinese Premier Li meets Pakistani President to strengthen alliance

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

8 candidates determined for June 14 Iranian presidential election

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

Attacks between Sunni and Shiite kills more than 100 Iraqi people

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

'Friends of Syria' meeting: US, allies to increase support to Syrian rebels

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

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...