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Politics
North Korean leader meets 1st foreign dignitary
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un received his first senior foreign dignitary since taking power last December, state media said Friday, hosting a Chinese official to cement support from his chief ally. Kim met the previous day with Wang Jiarui, head of the International Liaison Department of China’s Communist Party, the…
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Column
Russia Looks South As Well As East
*Author, Mihoko Kato is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and GCOE Research Fellow at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan. ASEAN-Russia: Foundations and Future Prospects Edited by Victor Sumsky, Mark Hong and Amy Lugg Singapore: ISEAS Publications, 2012, 376 pages, S$59.90/US$52.90 (Softcover) SINCE VLADIVOSTOK WAS…
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IT-Science
Why isn’t US court calling key witness in Samsung-Apple trial?
A trial on a patent dispute between Samsung Electronics and Apple is under way in the American tech giant’s home court of California. By some indications, Apple is using this advantage a tad too much with a former employee and possible hostile witness being unavailable. Shin Nishibori, a former Apple…
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Society
South Korea to face Great Britain in Cardiff
South Korea will face a tough challenge against the host country Great Britain in the men’s football quarterfinal at the Millennium Stadium which will be filled with 70,000 home fans at 3:30 a.m. Sunday (KST). “We won’t back down against Team GB,” manager Hong Myung-bo said Friday. “In football, anything…
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Society
Start of Sino-Japanese War
As the 19th century closed, Joseon (1392-1910) increasingly found itself in the center of intrigue and conflict — some of it of its own making. In the summer of 1894, insurrection and unrest ruled the Korean countryside — especially in the southern provinces. The government, unable to put the unrest…
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韩国降低以房养老标准
大家好,我是王璇，今天的 The AsiaN新闻，又同您见面了。 韩国金融委员会近日决定将从今天开始降低“以房养老”信贷标准。据悉，韩金融委拟定提交《韩国住房金融法》修正案，将养老贷款年龄限制条件从“夫妻双方实际年龄均需达到60岁”改为“房产所有者个人60岁以上即可”。 对此重大改动，韩国相关部门向民众做出了进一步详细说明。韩国金融委员会表示“按照以前的要求，一部分与配偶年龄差距较大的群体，很难在短时间内实现以房养老，为扫除上述障碍，决定推动实施该解决方案”。 对于具体实施方法，韩金融委表示“将在8月6日到9月17日之间提交《预备修正法案》，在通过相关法律部门审查以后，在交付国会敦促实施”。 当然还是和往常一样，欢迎您点击我们的网站，浏览其他要闻。 我们的网站是 http://cn.theasian.asia/?p=6925 今天就到这里，谢谢您的收看。 news@theasian.asia
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Society
[Nigeria Report] Cause of Nodding Syndrome has yet to be known
Nodding disease or nodding syndrome is a recent, little-known disease which emerged in Sudan in the 1960s. It is a fatal, mentally and physically, disabling disease that only affects children, typically between the ages of 5 and 15. It is currently restricted to small regions in South Sudan, Tanzania, and…
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Culture
A Nepalese Hindu Takes Holy Bath For Festival
A Hindu devotee offers prayers on the occasion of Janai Purnima, or Sacred Thread festival, near Pashupati temple in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. On Janai Purnima Hindus take holy baths and perform their annual change of the Janai, a sacred cotton string worn around their chest or tied…
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Culture
Colorful Parade To Celebrate Buddhist Festival In Sri Lanka
In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 photo, a decorated elephant parades as Sri Lankan traditional dancers perform during the annual Buddhist festival of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhists throng the hill-capital every year to venerate Buddha’s tooth relic which is taken…
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