[Korea Report] Mini market selling world food in Itaewon is a great comfort for foreigners
![[Korea Report] Mini market selling world food in Itaewon is a great comfort for foreigners](http://www.theasian.asia/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theasian.asia%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F11%2F20121106_1538541-800x600.jpg&q=90&w=310&h=200&zc=1 "[Korea Report] Mini market selling world food in Itaewon is a great comfort for foreigners")
Living abroad away from home could be tough for some people. There would be a lot of things that must be missed. One might think that foreigners miss all the time are the food from his home country. As people travel and move here and there easily now, most of host countries have their own area for […]
Lee Gun-hee’s incessant innovation brings Samsung to success
Samsung School Book In our childhood, we considered ourselves the last generation of 1952 revolution. I was born in 1963, and then it was very clear that we live under the umbrella of values and slogans of Nasser revolution. Something we were proud of, as many are still, is that time was when Nasser built […]
Transcendental meditation proved helpful in solving enmity among nations
Reducing Tension in the Middle East A statement released by the Jewish-American group J Street says: “Military force alone is inadequate as a response to the broader strategic challenge Israel faces. Only a political resolution to the century-old conflict with the Palestinians resulting in two states living side by side can end the conflict” (“For […]
Chosun Ilbo, the most influential daily in Korea, interviews the AsiaN’s publisher Lee
The Chosun Ilbo, the most influential conservative daily newspaper in South Korea, carried an interview story of Lee Sang-ki, President-Publisher of The AsiaN last Saturday (Nov. 24). The interview was held on the occasion of the first founding anniversary of the internet media which publishes news stories in four languages of Korean, English, Chinese and Arab. In […]
Prosecutor called Mr. Strangelove
A sex scandal is shaking the prosecution to its foundations. A 30-year-old law school graduate, who was a trainee in the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutor’s Office, engaged in sexual acts twice and sexual intercourse once with a 43-year-old female accused of shoplifting. The prosecution asked for an arrest warrant against the trainee prosecutor “on heat” […]
Reasons for Romney’s loss
The Republican Party had a very good shot at winning the 2012 U.S. presidential election. One major reason was that, before this election, no U.S. President had succeeded in reelection when the unemployment rate was higher than 7.3 percent. At the time of the election, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent. So why did the […]
[Indonesia Report] Nasi Kuning, an Indonesian delicacy for breakfast
![[Indonesia Report] Nasi Kuning, an Indonesian delicacy for breakfast](http://www.theasian.asia/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theasian.asia%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F11%2Fthumb_600.jpg&q=90&w=310&h=200&zc=1 "[Indonesia Report] Nasi Kuning, an Indonesian delicacy for breakfast")
Different countries, different cultures, different breakfasts. As each country has its own custom for breakfast, Indonesians have their own special menu for breakfast, which is called “Nasi Kuning” or literally translated to Yellow Rice. Nasi Kuning is a dish made of rice that is boiled with coconut milk and turmeric. The turmeric then gives a […]
A hiker’s diary to backpacking the Gobi Desert
Day 1 Ulaanbaatar to the Gobi July 18, 2008 11:00 Joined a tour with recently made friends with a lady from Hong Kong, a lady and young man from Japan, and a gentleman from China. We all pile into a mini van. The roads which are called “highways” are not really roads at all. The roads […]
China’s leadership change
When Hu Jintao became China’s leader a decade ago, many hoped that the quiet, taciturn 59-year-old would turn out to be a closet liberal who would launch political reforms. They were disappointed. On Nov. 15, when he stepped down as general secretary of the Communist Party in favor of Xi Jinping, he made the stunning […]
Nuclear madness
After the loss of 10 million American lives in the Three-Mile Island calamity in 1979, the death of two billion in the Chernobyl holocaust in 1986, and now the abandonment of all of northern Japan following the death of millions in last year’s Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, it is hardly surprising that the world’s biggest users […]
![[Novel] The Road to Shamawes ⑯](http://www.theasian.asia/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theasian.asia%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F08%2FAshraf-2novel-news_9601.jpg&q=90&w=300&h=0&zc=1 "[Novel] The Road to Shamawes ⑯")
