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South East Asia
Heavy Snow alert in Korea
Heavy snow alert has been issued on 30 cities and regional districts throughout the nation Thursday morning, including Seoul, Incheon and those in Gyeonggi, North Chungcheong and North Gyeongsang Provinces. Korea Meteorological Administration has issued the alert early this morning on Incheon and southern provinces and later at 7:10 a.m.…
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South East Asia
Geoje International Photo Festival: Photographers community gathers in Geoje Island
November 27 marked my first visit to Geoje Island, the second largest island in Korea. The reason was quite simple and interesting. My photographs had been selected as part of the first Geoje International Photo Festival and I was also on assignment to cover the festival. The two-day journey to…
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South East Asia
Sex slavery talks between Korean, Japan likely to continue into 2016
Negotiations between Korea and Japan over Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II are likely to drag on into next year. Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said he was skeptical about striking a deal with Korea over the issue by the end of this year, Japan’s Nihon…
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West Asia
International festival of visually impaired musicians in Tunisia
Starting on Thursday 3rd December and until Saturday 5th December, the first round for the International Festival for Blind Musicians will be held in Tunisia’s capital, Tunis. The festival chose for its first round to honor one of the icons of the Arab music, the late Sheikh Imam. This festival, the…
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South Asia
Indian newspaper not published for the first time in 137 years due to floods
The Hindu, one of the oldest newspapers in India, was not published on Wednesday for the first time in 137 years due to heavy downpour and flooding in Chennai. The paper, famous for its history of objective journalism has been published daily since 1878 but on Wednesday, it could not get…
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Culture
Yoo Seung-ho’s legal thriller “Remember” releases teasers
“Remember – War of the Son” is an upcoming 2015 thriller and legal South Korean melodrama starring Yoo Seung-ho and Park Min-young for the main roles of Seo Jin Woo and Lee In Ah. Seo Jin-woo (played by Yoo Seung-ho) has the condition of Hyperthymesia which allows him to remember almost…
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Culture
MAMA in Hong Kong celebrates Kpop in its 17th round
The ‘2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards’ is taking place in Hong Kong this year round, being hosted by Psy, awarding idol stars and groups for their amazing music. Originally launched in 1999, the ‘MAMA’ is a major K-pop award ceremony that attracts performers from all over the world. It aims…
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South East Asia
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West Asia
UAE celebrates its 44th National Day in Seoul’s Silla Hotel
In it’s celebration of it’s National Day, UAE chose Silla Hotel to host that memorable event. Abdallah Khalfan Matar Al-Ramethy, United Arab Emirates’s ambassador in South Korea, celebrates the 44th National day of the United Arab Emirates, in the presence of notable figures of politicians and ambassadors. In the picture,…
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