• West Asia

    Ban Announces Annan’s Resignation As UN Envoy

    Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon (R) and Kofi Anna meet the media after a Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, in this file photo taken on June 7, 2012. Ban Ki-moon announced on Aug. 2, 2012 the resignation of the U.N.-Arab…

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  • IT-Science

    Increase rate of major Korean export items to China on declining

    Korea has mixed feelings in retrospect of exports toward China in the last 20 years since the establishment of diplomatic relationship between the two nations. The product that has made the biggest contribution for Korean export business toward China, was flat display. According to a report, titled “Export trend of major Korean products…

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  • Education

    Han Bi-ya: Education is basis of achieving goals

    Han Bi-Ya is a traveler, writer and relief worker. She is from Seoul, South Korea. She was born in Seoul in 1958. She grew up in a wealthy family. But she had hard time after her father’s sudden death. She failed in the exam for the college entrance and she…

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  • Column

    Is authority must-have virtue for president?

    The presidential election campaign has heated up by a TV appearance of nonpolitical potential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo. He has neither joined a party nor declared he will run. Yet he has been steering the race with Park Geun-hye, according to opinion polls. Ahn apparently hasn’t shown a clear will toward…

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  • North Korean citizens see wide Olympic coverage

    North Korea is providing its citizens with wide coverage of the London Olympics, officials said Thursday, as its athletes continue to attribute success to their new leader. According to one North Korean official, the country’s impressive showing _ five medals so far including four golds _ has caused a sensation…

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  • Politics

    Ahn’s aide counters ‘hypocrisy’ allegation

    An aide to Ahn Cheol-soo, a Seoul National University professor, strove to counter allegations Thursday that Ahn used double standards in corporate ethics. In a radio interview, Keum Tae-sup, a partner at the Seoul-based law firm Jipyong and Jisung, said Ahn’s signing of a petition to show leniency to then…

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  • Politics

    China — ‘People’s republic of torture’

    China has remained silent over the torture allegation made days ago by freed activist Kim Young-hwan, despite mounting calls to answer whether the allegations are true or not. The turning of a deaf ear to the alleged human rights abuses has prompted China-bashing here as bloggers and Internet users accused…

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  • South East Asia

    Malaysia : The Royal Visit

    Major News of <New Strait Times> : The Royal Visit The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be visiting Malaysia from 13 to 15 September to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. While here, the royal couple will have an audience with the Yang Di Pertuan Agong and meet Prime Minister Datuk…

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  • East Asia

    Perayaan Tahta Kerajaan Maroko Diselenggarakan Di Seoul

    Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Saat ini sedang bermagang di The Asian. Berikut adalah salah satu berita yang dapat anda akses di situs The AsiaN. Sebuah resepsi menandai perayaan hari pentahtaan Kerajaan Maroko pada 30 Juli, diadakan di Lotte hotel, Seoul, Korea. Dalam pidatonya, Duta Besar Maroko untuk Korea,…

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  • West Asia

    Assad Defies U.N. Resolution To Resign

    FILE – This June 3, 2012 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech at the parliament in Damascus, Syria. Arab countries on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 pushed ahead with a symbolic U.N. General Assembly resolution that tells Assad to resign…

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