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Business
Doosan Group goes paperless with iPad
Doosan Group Chairman Park Yong-maan is a chief executive who quickly adapts to change. He frequently tweets the public and tries out new technologies to stay ahead of the pack. In this spirit of adaptation and innovation, Park is now trying to make Korea’s oldest conglomerate become a paperless operation…
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IT-Science
Preparing for counterattack
Mobile carriers bet on VoLTE against free Internet calls The nation’s three domestic mobile carriers are speeding up developments for voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE) to commercialize it following the recent launch of Kakao Talks’ free Internet call service. The most popular mobile messenger service here launched its VoIP (voice…
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“Let’s Take Bicycle”
Cyclists, some naked, ride their bikes with other bicycle enthusiasts in Mexico City, Saturday, June 9, 2012. Cyclists demonstrated naked to promote the use of bicycles and to highlight the damage caused by car dependency in the capital. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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Politics
Korea asks US to sell cluster bombs
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, has asked the U.S. Congress to approve Seoul’s request to buy 367 advanced cluster bombs. “The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress June 1 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of the…
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Pakistan suffers from power shortage
Pakistan is facing severe power crisis since a decade, as against the demand of about 19000MW electricity, it produces hardly 11000 to 12000MW through its all resources including hydro power plants installed at dams and some others operating on furnace oil and gas besides two nuclear power plants. Some power…
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Children of sex workers bring honor for Bangladesh
The young Karate team from Bangladesh, achieved marvelous success in the just concluded 18th International High School Karate and Kick Boxing Champion-ship in Katmandu, Nepal. The competition was held from 24th May, 2012 to 1st June, 2012 with a total of 375 participants from eleven countries. Among the eleven participating…
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Chasm in South China Sea
The controversy about China’s juridical claim over the 3.5-million sq.km South China Sea is hotting up, following US defence secretary Leon Panetta’s visit to India, earlier this week. Termed as the ‘US pivot to Asia’ in which Panetta wanted India to play ‘a lynchpin’, the important Asia-Pacific region will witness…
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Politics
Jordan to launch humanitarian operation center to deal with influx of Syrian refugees
AMMAN, June 7 (Xinhua) — Jordan is planning to open a humanitarian operation center in the city of Mafraq near the border with Syria to deal with influx of Syrian refugees, Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said Thursday. More than 120,000 Syrians entered Jordan since the unrest in their country in…
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UNESCO expert “Better ways needed to achieve oceanic sustainable development”
PARIS, June 8 (Xinhua) — The public and policymakers should pay more attention to ocean and coastal areas, so as to find ways to improve the sustainable management and protection of the marine environment, a senior UN marine expert has said. Raising the public and decisionmakers’ awareness of oceanic sustainable…
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