COVID-19: a lingering gigantic challenge – Part 2/3: Germany and a glimmer of hope
By Dr. Hassan Humeida Port of Kiel, Germany: Germany is one of the great world powers that continue to suffer from the coronavirus and its consequences. The rich and powerful country is among the major industrialized countries in the globe, one of the world’s highest-ranked exporter of high quality industrial products. Germany plays the […]
The relevance of unified Korean Peninsula for a future world – Part II: Lessons learnt: a unified Germany
By Dr. Hassan Humeida – Kiel, Germany BERLIN: Germany is a prime example of economic success after reunification. Germany had been divided for 41 years, from 1949 to 1990. After the Second World War, the United States (US), France, Britain and the Soviet Union (an association of countries that includes Russia) were in control […]
Wind of Change
By Eddy Suprapto Contributor to AsiaN JAKARTA: Today, October 3, 1990 is a historic record for the German people, namely the reunification of Germany or German Reunification. The process of unification took place when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), especially after East Germany’s first free […]
Afghanis to seek elusive peace at new dialogue on July 7
Germany and Qatar will co-host an intra Afghan dialogue on July 7-8 to support the peace process in Afghanistan. The dialogue will be held in the Qatari capital Doha in “the wake of unwavering ferocity across Afghanistan as war even further intensified between Afghan forces and the Taliban fighters,” Afghani media reported. Both Germany and […]
Germany launches educational project on DMZ, Berlin Wall
PAJU, Gyeonggi Province — Young South Koreans, according to recent surveys, have been less open than older generations to reunification of the Korean Peninsula. The situation is similar in Germany. Knowledge and interest in division and reunification of the country has been declining among the young who were born after the fall of the Berlin […]
Erdogan reminds Germany’s Namibia Genocide
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed Germany over the parliament resolution on the historical events which recognizes the relocation of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as “genocide.” He spoke at Sebahattin Zaim University on June 5 and said that Germany blackmailed Turkey by this resolution. He called out the Germans over their history of mass […]
Walking In The Bubbles?
MUNICH, Germany — Children play in their water-walk balls on the Lake at Munich’s Olympic stadium, Germany, Easter Sunday April 8, 2012. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia
Candles Light Up ‘Earth Hour’
BERLIN — Volunteers of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) place candles amongst about 5000 candles to picture the globe prior to ‘Earth Hour’ in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Saturday, March 31, 2012. Earth Hour takes place worldwide at 8.30 p.m. local time and is a global call to turn off […]
Carol with Santa Claus
A man dressed as Santa Claus sing Christmas songs with visiting children at a Christmas post office in the village of Himmelpfort (Heaven’s Gate) in Brandenburg, Germany, Dec. 17, 2011. The Christmas post office in Himmelpfort is open from mid-November to Christmas every year. Children can send their Christmas wish lists to Himmelpfort from around […]