• Immigration process for investors to be shortened

    More foreign investors are expected to enjoy a shortened immigration process from Monday, as the financial authorities in cooperation with the justice ministry plan to expand the scope of beneficiaries of the finance investor express card system. Financial Hub Korea (Fn Hub Korea) said they have revised the system to…

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  • Galaxy S3 LTE phones to hit shelves Monday

    The long-term evolution (LTE) model of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S3 will be available nationwide from Monday. The Suwon-based firm announced Friday its highest quarterly operating profit as of yet of 6.7 trillion won thanks to global sales of the handsets. The three domestic mobile carriers _ SK Telecom, KT and…

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  • IT-Science

    Kakao Story tops Facebook

    Kakao Story has topped Facebook to dominate the mobile social network service (SNS) market in Korea only three months after its launch. According to a survey of 13.95 million smartphone users using Google’s Android Operating System (OS) released Thursday by market research agency Nielsen KoreanClick, Kakao Talks’ SNS held 49.1…

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  • Business

    Chaebol bosses’ stock wealth rising

    Leading chaebol bosses are combining to make more in the stock market than the gross domestic product (GDP) of Bahrain, according to figures from a local think tank. The report by the Korea CXO Institute shows that the combined value of stocks held by the corporate owners of the country’s…

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  • Building Blogs of ASEAN Social Bonding

    Abroad, my sentimental friend Abdul Razak, a fair-skinned Indonesian, liked to quip that he is an Asean Man. He says: “When I am in Singapore I passed for a Chinese; in Vietnam as a Vietnamese, in Philippines as a Filipino, in Laos as a Laotian; in Thailand as a Thai…

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  • Culture

    Round-up Of Wild Horses In Spanish Festival

    A man grabs a wild horse during the traditional round-up of wild horses in Sabucedo, north-western Spain Saturday July 7, 2012. The round-up and breaking-in of the wild horses, where the mainly young men of the village get a chance to demonstrate their skills, originates from the 16th century. <AP/NEWSis>…

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  • Society

    [India Report] Travel Kashmir Only With Proper Dress: Jamaat-e-Islami

    A far-right and Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has proposed for a dress code for all the tourists including foreigners, who come to visit Kashmir on 5th July 2012. This hard line Islamic group of Kashmir so demanded that, all visitors, especially the foreigners must follow the recommended dress code while…

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  • South East Asia

    Exhibition Of Housing Materials In Ho Chi Minh City

    Visitors stroll around the International Exhibition of Construction, Building Materials, Housing and Interior Decoration in southern Ho Chi Minh City, some 1,130 km south of capital Hanoi, in Vietnam, July 5, 2012. <Xinhua/Dinh Tung> news@theasian.asia

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  • South Asia

    Rose Petals On Sale At Festival In Karachi

    A vender sells rose petals during Shab-e-Barat Festival in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 5, 2012. <Xinhua/Masroor> news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    Job Fair For Prison Inmates In China

    Prisoners look at job information at a job fair in a prison in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, July 5, 2012. Yinchuan prison on Thursday organized a job fair for prisoners who are going to be released after serving the full term of the sentence. <Xinhua/Wang…

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