The AsiaN builds a “New Silk Road” by launching Arabic version
Today, nations are suffering from disasters made by people and nature. Millions of human beings are scattered, among of them are emigrants, exiled, or lost. As if fate is drawing a final end for humanity. The burden of wars is too heavy to carry on with, for women who lost their children, as well as […]
[The AsiaN Video for Indonesian] Simposium Nuklir : Ketakutan Penggunaan Kekuatan Nuklir
Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Berikut adalah ulasan mengenai penggunaan kekuatan nuklir sebagai sumber energi oleh Kepala Departemen Hubungan Masyarakat The AsiaN, Najwa Zahhar. Menurut beliau, sulit untuk menarik kesimpulan mengenai penggunaan kekuatan nuklir di Timur Tenganh. Terutama sebab kebanyakan negara di Timur Tengah memiliki sumber daya alam melimpah, seperti minyak dan gas, namun […]
Elusive chaebol reform
Candidates struggle to find ways to overhaul conglomerates This is the second in a four-part series analyzing and comparing key election pledges on economic policies promoted by the three major presidential candidates. — ED. Desperate to massage the egos of credit-crunched voters, presidential candidates from both the left and the right are vowing to bring […]
[The AsiaN 1st Anniv] Message from Meidyana Rayana
Selamat Ulang Tahun yang Pertama untuk The AsiaN. Happy first Anniversary for The AsiaN. Hope that The AsiaN will be The Next News Network in the world and can compete with other international medias. And to bring new perspective to international world as being Asian’s voice. Good luck and Success for The AsiaN. Senghil Jukha […]
Bells: echo of mystique
Museum explores history, culture of bells In the 1960s, an AFKN (American Forces Korea Network) announcer once praised the sound of a Korean temple bell, saying “Western bells are to be appreciated by the ears and Korean bells by the depth of the mind.” Introducing this comment on a television variety show last year, professor […]
Malaise pervades the Korean economy
The Korean economy is now in an anemic state. Pessimists are comparing the economy to a cancer patient waiting for emergency surgery. The patient, they say, is barely clinging to life and, without surgery, could enter a coma. The Korean economy is now growing at just 2 percent annually, with no quick recovery in sight. […]
South Korean, Indonesian President Get Together In Nusa Dua, Bali
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, left, greets South Korean President Lee Myung-bak during their bilateral meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. <AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati>
Harvard admissions process
Outstanding Korean students who are now agonizing over the college admissions process at top North American universities should take a moment to curse Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933. Concerned that there were too many Jewish students at Harvard, Lowell first tried to implement a quota. Later, he and the […]
No tears for Romney
Now Mitt Romney can go back to doing what he does best, making hundreds of millions off other people’s sweat and tears, investing billions overseas and shipping away the jobs to go with his investments. And he can stop that nonsense about the “blind trust” in which he’d put his fortune, come out of the […]