-Bill Hill and the A-Maize-ing School Bus
Yoon Seok-Hee – The AsiaN Correspondent Instead of taking a plane like I did in November, I decided to take a bus to Standing Rock. I found a bus through a Facebook rideshare page departing from the Bronx on the 1st of December. The driver and owner Bill Hill, was born and abandoned in Upstate […]
Google, Naver in all-out war for accurate translation service
Lee Min-hyung / The Korea Times With artificial intelligence (AI) taking the technology world by storm, global IT firms are identifying intelligent translation services as their next key growth area. The paradigm shift in translation comes as conventional statistical machine translation (SMT) has so far failed to generate satisfactory outcomes, due to its heavy reliance on […]
Trump questions US commitment to ‘one-China’ policy
US President-elect Donald Trump has questioned America’s commitment to the “one-China” principle in the China-Taiwan row, saying Washington should only side with Beijing on certain conditions. Trump made the remarks in an interview with Fox News on Sunday, about a week after angering China with a controversial phone conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. “I […]
Development in Korea, India
Ranjit Kumar Dhawan – The Korea Times November 14 of this year marked the hundredth birthday of an iconic Korean leader, Park Chung-hee. Although Park has been criticized for being authoritarian and conservative, it was under his leadership that Korea witnessed rapid economic transformation. It was largely due to the efforts of this man that […]
Troubles ahead?
A new U.S. President has been elected, and this time the world’s most powerful job went to, should we say, a rather unconventional person. Indeed, a former real estate tycoon and TV celebrity is not the type of individual we expect to see in the Oval Office. But such was the will of the people, […]
What to Expect from the New American President Trump’s Foreign Policy
by Greg R. Lawson – Contributing Analyst, Wikistrat In light of the surprising election of Donald J. Trump to become the 45th President of the United States, leaders around the world are scrambling to determine what this means for their own national interests. On one hand, this is an entirely normal process. Though the U.S. […]
The New World Literary Voice from Nigeria
Interviewed by: Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Dali) Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a Nigerian writer and journalist. He is the author of the novel Season of Crimson Blossoms (published by Cassava Republic Press, London in 2016 and Parresia Publishers, Lagos, 2015), which recent won the Nigeria Prize for Literature, one of the richest literary prizes in the world. […]