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Business
Samsung Electronics accounts for 20% of South Korea’s exports in H1
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co. was responsible for 20 percent of South Korea’s total exports in the first half of this year, showing its heavy influence on the national economy, its financial report showed on Sunday. The South Korean tech giant raised 75.2 trillion won ($62 billion) in sales in the…
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Culture
Rare 800-year-old vases found in Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar: Three vases full of clotted cream and one vase with yellow butter that were frozen in glacial about 700-800 years ago have been found in Mongolia. The rare finding was made by the ‘Umard Mongol’ joint research team of the National Museum of Mongolia, the University of Pittsburgh…
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South Asia
State measures in Tajikistan bring down number of drug addicts
Dushanbe: The number of drug addicts has significantly decreased in recent years in Tajikistan. In June, the country had 5,666 registered drug addicts, including 128 women, down by 1,222 people (17.7%) from the 2018 figure, the Chairman of the Coordinating Council for the Prevention of Drug Abuse, Deputy Prime Minister…
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Entertainment
Storytelling festival: When myths and legends become a nation’s eternal treasure
By Alireza Bahrami AsiaN Contributor Tehran: An institute for young people in Iran is anticipating a wide international participation in a festival that aims to improve and highlight the invaluable art of storytelling. The Institute of the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon) is planning its next festival…
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Business
South Korea voices willingness to talk with Japan over its ‘whitelist’ move
Seoul: South Korea has notified Japan in advance of its plan to remove Tokyo from its list of trusted trading partners and is willing to talk with Japan further if needed, the trade minister said on Saturday. South Korea decided on Monday to remove Japan from its “whitelist” of…
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IT-Science
In South Korea, Artificial Intelligence speakers fill in welfare blind spots of lonely seniors
Seoul: Kim In-hwan spends most of her time by herself in a small apartment in Seoul, but the 83-year-old with no family says she’s not lonely thanks to a new talking buddy named Aria, the virtual assistant of SK Telecom Co.’s artificial intelligence (AI) speaker, NUGU. Waking up to…
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Politics
South Korea, China, Japan to hold foreign ministers’ meeting in Beijing next week
Seoul: South Korea, China and Japan will hold a trilateral meeting of their foreign ministers in Beijing next week to discuss three-way cooperation and regional and international situations, Seoul’s foreign ministry has said. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Chinese and Japanese counterparts, Wang Yi and Taro Kono, plan to…
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IT-Science
Apps are not all fun and games, can expose users to risk of cybercrimes
Kuala Lumpur: Our social media feeds were recently awash with photos of users looking like senior citizens, courtesy of a filter in a popular app called FaceApp. The age filter produced almost uncanny results, encouraging millions to download the app and submitting their photos in order to see this…
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South Asia
Kashmir Issue: Indian, Pakistani forces clash, nine soldiers killed
By Nasir Aijaz AsiaN Correspondent Islamabad: As the United Nations Security Council is expected to hold a session on Friday to discuss the Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India, their forces continued to skirmish at Line of Control (LoC), the international border between two parts of disputed region, which…
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North Korea fires 2 unidentified projectiles into East Sea: JCS
Seoul: North Korea fired two unidentified short-range projectiles into the East Sea on Friday, South Korea’s military said, the sixth such launch in about three weeks. The firing came shortly after a warning that North Korea could end dialogue with South Korea in apparent protest against the Seoul-Washington military exercise…
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