• Culture

    Jordanian Girl Lights Cauldron In Jerash Festival

    A Jordanian girl carries the torch of the Festival during the opening ceremony of Jordan’s annual Jerash Festival, hosted in the ancient Greco-Roman city, 45 km north of Amman, on July 4, 2012. <Xinhua/Mohammad Abu Ghosh> news@theasian.asia

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  • West Asia

    Major news in Jordan on July 5: 61 per cent of Jordanian households have computers

    Major news in <The Jordan Times>: 61 per cent of Jordanian households have computers Around 61 per cent of Jordanian households have personal computers (PCs) or laptops, with 35 per cent of them connected to the Internet, a study showed Wednesday. The survey, conducted by the Department of Statistics and…

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  • Society

    Eating 45 Hot Dogs For Her Second Championship Title

    Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas forces down a hot dog during the Nathan’s Famous Women’s Hot Dog Eating World Championship, Wednesday, July 4, 2012, at Coney Island, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Thomas won her second consecutive women’s competition with a world record breaking 45 downed hot dogs.…

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  • South East Asia

    Major news in Malaysia on July 5: “Taxi drivers are our image ambassadors”

    Major news in <New Straits Times> :  Taxi drivers are our image ambassadors: Najib   PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today hailed taxi drivers as an important group that can portray a good image of the country. He said they could form in the public, particularly foreign tourists,…

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  • South East Asia

    Kinetic Art Decoration In Singapore Changi Airport

    People admire a giant kinetic structure at the Changi International Airport on Wednesday July 4, 2012 in Singapore. Claiming to be the world’s largest kinetic art installation, “Kinetic Rain” designed and built by a German team is made up of 1, 216 bronze droplets that transforms into multiple shapes through…

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  • East Asia

    Cave-in Engulfs Car, Killing One Person In China

    Photo taken on July 5, 2012 shows a collapse site in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province. A section of Xiangjiang Road running near Xiangjiang River in Changsha caved in early Thursday, engulfing a passing vehicle and killing at least one person aboard. The cave-in, near the Poly International…

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  • Doctors planning to form labor union

    The Korean Medical Association (KMA) has decided to form a doctors’ union, causing public concern that the move may negatively impact their duties to patients. The president of the KMA, Roh Hwan-kyu suggested the formation of the union saying that it was necessary to protect doctors’ rights and, as he…

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  • Overseas internship for youth extends to Middle East

    A government-funded overseas internship program for university students has extended its reach to the Middle East. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said Wednesday that it has decided to expand global internship opportunities for the students. The ministry currently provides the program in cooperation with the Korean Council for…

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  • Korea shares smart learning knowhow with ASEAN

    Korea agreed with Southeast Asian countries Wednesday to strengthen collaboration on developing joint e-learning and smart education programs at a meeting of senior educational policymakers in Indonesia. The country also proposed bilateral working-level talks with Brunei as well as Cambodia to develop technology-based educational systems in those nations. This was…

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  • Society

    Foreigners have difficulty in using local SNS

    Over half of expats in a survey by the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) here found difficulty using local social networking services (SNS) because of language problems. The government organization said Wednesday that 53.5 percent of the 1,086 foreign residents it surveyed have not used Korean language SNS in the past…

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