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The Media Revolution Broadcasting will Lead – ABU Seoul GA

Four a.m., December 31st, 2012: Terrestrial analogue broadcasting in Korea will cease and the entire country will have access to high quality digital broadcasting. As we approach the new digital broadcasting era, media professionals from around the world plan to gather in Seoul to discuss the challenges of the future and how to tackle them […]

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[Indonesia Report] Freeport Indonesia, world’s largest mine operator, agrees to divest

Freeport Indonesia, operator of Grasberg mine in Papua, that contains the world’s largest recoverable copper reserve and the largest gold reserve, agrees to divest its stake via an Initial Public Offering, Hatta Rajasa, Indonesian’s Coordinating Minister for the Economic, was learned to have told Agence France-Presse (AFP) Monday (July 23). “I have asked them (Freeport Indonesia) to divest via […]

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[Indonesia Report] How to keep Ramadan in foreign countries

Some men come out at dawn, drag loudspeaker that plays religious song around the neighborhood while shouting “sahur…sahur…sahur….”, or Suhoor in Arabic which is in Islamic term referring to meal before fasting starts. This is a common scene that can be found in Indonesia during Ramadan month. They call out the neighbors to wake up […]

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Risky turnabout

Cautious approach needed over DTI rule change The government has opened a Pandora’s box in a desperate bid to revitalize the dormant real estate market. However, the decision to ease debt-to-income (DTI) regulations on mortgages might be a risky choice that could devastate the already-sagging economy. The proposed change was part of measures aimed at […]

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Kickoff of primaries

Ideas, views, characters should be fully verified With less than five months to go before the presidential election, two major parties have just begun their primaries. About a month later, both the ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition Democratic United Party (DUP) will decide who will be their respective standard-bearers. However, even provided the […]

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Who will speak for Rohingyas?

The military junta in Myanmar has been courted by the West in its quest to encourage the democratization process in this bastion of tyranny. However, it is primordial that respect of human rights, especially the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority should remain high on the international agenda. The Rohingyas are the most defenseless religious […]

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Ominous rumblings in North Korea

Strange things are happening in North Korea, which is nothing new. This time, however, developments apparently reflect divisions within the leadership of the isolated totalitarian regime. Conceivably, this could spark a renewed Korean War. Ri Yong-ho, a powerful military figure and until recently a close ally of young North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, has been […]

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What’s unknowable about N. Korea

As the inner group of the new North Korean leadership is inaccessible, it is impossible to know how and what decisions are made in the North. We only learn about them after they are officially announced. We struggle to understand what led to the decisions and to figure out what the meaning of them is, […]

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Arab Spring: good news

The good news about last weekend’s election in Libya, as relayed by the Western media, was that the “Islamists” were defeated and the Good Guys won. The real good news was that democracy in the Arab world is still making progress, regardless of whether the voters choose to support secular parties or Islamic ones. The […]

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Escalating suspicion

FTC should uncover truth of CD rate scandal Ripples from the suspected certificates of deposit (CD) rate-rigging scandal are spreading. Consumer groups are poised to lodge class-action lawsuits, saying many of the allegations revealed so far are suspicious enough to believe that banks and brokerage houses colluded to fix three-month CD rates. There are also […]

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