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East Asia
Economic Corridor proves ‘Game Changer’ for Pakistan
In April 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping was in Islamabad, where he unveiled a $46 billion infrastructure spending blueprint for Pakistan under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), to serve as a linchpin of Beijing’s drive to open new trade and transport routes across Asia and challenge the U.S. as the…
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West Asia
Arabian “Sex” Nights in the Gulf States
Until recent years, a special religious force, known with a long phrase entitled “The Authority to Call for Good Deeds, and Ask for not Doing Sins,” used to be seen in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s streets chasing women not wearing veils and punishing men who refused to close their…
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East Asia
Japan wants Dokdo removed from 2018 Winter Olympics website
Japan has called on the Korean government to remove Dokdo Island from a map on the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics website, fueling the sovereignty dispute over Korea’s easternmost island. According to Japan’s news outlet Kyodo News on Friday, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded that Seoul alter the website,…
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Central Asia
Significant Relations between Kyrgyzstan and Iran
Iran and Kyrgyzstan have embarked on what international experts are calling a “new era” of bilateral relations. September 2015 marked the beginning of a strong friendship between the two nations when President Almazbek Atambayev of Kyrgyzstan paid the Islamic Republic of Iran an official visit. Experts add that this visit…
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East Asia
“Nobody ‘stealing’ your jobs, you spend too much on wars”
Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma believes that improper distribution of funds and hyper inflated US military spending, not globalization or other countries “stealing” US jobs, is behind the economic decline in America. The Chinese business magnate earlier in January met with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has bemoaned…
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IT-Science
Slaves of smartphone
Park Moo Jong – The Korea Times It’s been 10 years since the late Steve Jobs (1955-2011) introduced the sensational iPhone, namely smartphone, in June 2007 to help change the daily life of the mankind from then on. The device is absolutely one of the most important daily necessities in this…
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Central Asia
Cross-Border Journalism Programme 2017
Deadline: 12 February 2017 Open to: journalists from Russia, the Baltic countries, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus region Scholarship: professional mentoring, assistance for research trips arrangements and reimbursement of costs for those trips. Travel costs, accommodation and per diem for both programme launch and closing 2-days seminars will also be covered…
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East Asia
China to launch 1st earthquake monitoring satellite
A Chinese-made electromagnetic test satellite will be launched in the second half of 2017 to monitor earthquakes. It will be the first satellite of its kind for China. The satellite has a life span of five years, monitoring quakes of magnitude six or above that hit China, and quakes of…
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Central Asia
Russia is developing advanced hypersonic weapons
Russia is developing hypersonic weapons based on principally new materials, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said on Thursday, TASS reports. “Coming next are hypersonic weapons, which require the use of principally new materials and control systems that operate in a completely different medium, in plasma,” the deputy defense minister…
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East Asia
Davinci Codex
KoIAN Co. Ltd is hosting an exhibition called DaVinci Codex at Culture Station in Seoul. It highlights the great discoveries Leonardo da Vinci made in a wide range of diverse fields. The exhibition visualizes the codex DaVinci has written over 37 years. Davinci Codex Kr description of the event “Leonardo…
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