Deaton claims Nobel Prize in Economy
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2015 to Angus Deaton of Princeton University, NJ, USA. Deaton claimed the award for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare. To design economic policy that promotes welfare and reduces poverty, we must first understand individual consumption choices. […]
Twelve Arab innovators become science stars on TV
Twelve of the Arab world’s most promising and remarkable young innovators beat thousands of rival applicants to be selected as candidates on the seventh season of Stars of Science, Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development ‘s (QF) “edutainment reality” TV program on MBC4. This selection concludes the casting phase and marks the onset […]
Nobel awards literature prize to war documenting
In one it’s most notable awards, Nobel awarded it’s literature prize for 2015 to Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time. She’s a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer. Of her most famous books, “War’s Unwomanly Face” documenting women through WWII, “Zinky Boys” which handles first-hand […]
Twin bombings rock Ankara
Two powerful bombs exploded at a peace rally near the main train station in Ankara on Saturday morning, killing over 100 people and wounding 246 others in the deadliest attack in the Turkish capital in recent memory. The victims were attending a lunchtime peace march calling for an end to the renewed conflict between the […]
“Netflix” comes to Korea in 2016
The biggest on-demand internet streaming media “Netflix” is expected to be available in Korea starting next year. As Greg Peters, head of international projects at Netflix, said during his speech in streaming international convention held at Coex mall in Seoul in September. He explained that his company plans to start implementing Netflix in Korea by 2016. Netflix […]
Lee Min Ho endorses Ferrero chocolate
On October 2, Starhaus Entertainment confirmed that Lee Min Ho would serve as a spokesmodel for the Italian chocolatier “Ferrero Rocher”, whose brand grew exponentially through heavy marketing. “Korean Wave star Lee Min Ho has exceptional talent, as a model, showing the continued interest in the Korean market of Rocher Group,” said Ferrero Rocher executive, […]
Aziz Sancar, Turkey’s first Nobel in science
In its second Nobel Prize win, Turkey secured its first Nobel in science, most specifically, chemistry, with Aziz Sancar. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Sancar, 69 years, holds both American and Turkish citizenship, has mapped nucleotide excision repair, the […]
Launch of Asia’s President’s Cup for golf
The 2015 President’s cup 2015 was opened with a ceremonial celebration in Incheon, the first Asian stop for this golf event that’s held every two years. President Park Geun Hye attended the ceremony held in Jack Nicklaus Golf Club as the honorary president of the competition, joined by the former US president George Bush. Park expressed her […]
Women in Truman Capote’s world
Truman Capote, the American writer, who’s mostly known for his nonfiction book “In Cold Blood”, wrote a number of novels and short stories, and though their protagonists weren’t always female, there always seemed to be an interesting female character in everything he wrote, and the reason why they were so interesting is because they […]
Swedish, American and Turkish share Nobel prize in Chemistry 2015
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Swedish Tomas Lindahl of Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, UK, American Paul Modrich of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine,USA, and Turkish Aziz Sancar of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,USA , for mechanistic studies of […]
Egypt, Managing Editor of the AsiaN's Middle East Bureau, Graduate Student of Mass Communication and Journalism at Ahram Canadian University 
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