Hallyu wave’ll continue to capture hearts of their global fans
It’s significant how the South Korean entertainment especially music (famously known as K-pop) managed to prevail Asia, Europe, USA, and even the Middle East. It’s the upbeat style, dances and their looks that manage to capture the hearts of their wide fan base. Of course the Hallyu wave includes animation, games, and dramas but the […]
[Indonesia Report] Endangered Sumatran elephant gives birth to a female baby
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An endanger Sumatran Elephant gave birth to a female calf on early morning of Tuesday (Sept. 28) at Conservation Response Unit Sampoiniet in Aceh Jaya, Aceh. Suci, a trained Sumatran Elephant, 20 years old, did not show any sign of labor, Wahdi Azmi, field manager for the Aceh branch of Flora & Fauna International, a […]
‘Pieta’
Last Saturday night I went to a movie theater near my house to watch “Pieta,” the winner of the top Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. It’s a small cinema with fewer than 200 seats. I found a few dozen people in the theater and luckily no one sat beside me ― a […]
Deadlocked Korea-Japan ties
Two countries need dialogue. Japan should look honestly at history to clear the past. After President Lee Myung-bak visited Dokdo, Korea’s easternmost islets, on Aug. 10, Tokyo recalled its ambassador to Korea, Masatoshi Muto, and announced it would take the issue of Dokdo to the International Court of Justice. Japanese media have reported continuously that […]
Multiracial students
Cultural diversity should be accepted broadly Until a decade ago, many Koreans were not familiar with the term “multicultural.’’ And it was not easy to see students from multicultural families in schools. More recently, however, the number of multiracial students has risen rapidly, offering both challenges and opportunities to our society. According to a survey […]
How to become rich by loafing around
After years of research I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a way to become rich without working strenuously; to be born of a rich family holding silver chopsticks. It’s really easy: you don’t have to do anything though your parents had to work strenuously. Sadly we common people know that this is almost […]
Foreign policy mirages
UNITED NATIONS ― The killing of the American Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens, along with three other American diplomats, the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and the tearing down of the flag replacing the stars and stripes with a black banner, all allegedly in response to an American-produced anti-Islamic video, shows […]
[Indonesia Report] Indonesian migrant workers fear of Jakarta Airport
![[Indonesia Report] Indonesian migrant workers fear of Jakarta Airport](http://www.theasian.asia/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theasian.asia%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F09%2FterminalTKI2.jpg&q=90&w=310&h=200&zc=1 "[Indonesia Report] Indonesian migrant workers fear of Jakarta Airport")
Indonesia as a developing country with more than 230 million population is home for many of migrant workers. Every year Indonesia sends hundreds of thousands of Migrant workers to such countries as Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and many other countries. Indonesian even call the migrant workers as “foreign exchange hero”, since they […]
Territorial disputes
Both Japan and China should exercise restraint Territorial disputes between China and Japan over a group of islands in the East China Sea have reached a dangerous level amid a slew of anti-Japan demonstrations in China. The Associated Press reported that protests spread to at least two dozen Chinese cities over the weekend; disgruntled Chinese […]
Mideast chaos shows need for American energy
NEW YORK ― America’s economic well-being is at the mercy of the most thin-skinned hotheads on Earth. The tragic and outrageous assassination of American officials in Libya and the vicious attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen dramatize the enormous risk of depending on petroleum from a region where a film clip can […]
![[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")
