• Myanmar Media Law Reform A Key Test of Non-Partisan Press-1

    *Editor’s note: This is the first of two part stories on Myanmar Media Law. Calling your bluff seems to mark the dealings between the  censor and journalists as Myanmar set about to reform its Press system as part of efforts to burnish its democratic credentials. The quasi-democratic government plans to…

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  • [London Olympics] ② The world revives London’s architecture

    *Editor’s note: This is the second of six-part stories on the London Olympics That’s how Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, wished the new tower to be a success as he unveiled it in the Olympic Village garden. Zaha’s icon and this tower have something in common: The engineer who built…

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  • A (Multi) Polar Bear? Russia’s Bid for Influence in Asia

    *Author, Stephen Blank is a professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. The views expressed here are his own. Russia’s call for a multipolar world, where power doesn’t reside with a single hegemon such as the US, is a veiled bid to exert Russian influence in Asia…

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  • South East Asia

    India, Angsa Hitam

    Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Saat ini bermagang untuk Asian Journalist Association. Berita-berita politik, sosial maupun ekonomi dapat anda baca di artikel-artikel The AsiaN. Salah satunya adalah berita berikut. Pakar ekonomi terkemuka, Andy Xie, mantan pimpinan ekonomis Asia Pasifik, Morgan Stanley, mengatakan bahwa India dan Australia merupakan dua negara…

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  • East Asia

    Korea te poneroti notu projatir abishkar

    Nomoskar,ami Sudhanya Ghosh,Asia Journalist Association,AJA. Goto brihospotibar korear upokuloborti sumudre bigyanira poneroti notun shamudrik projati abishkar koren.jeju dipeke ghire thaka somudrer shath kilometer gobhire probal o pathorer modhye kakra o chingri-r ai notun projati guli pawa jaye. National Institute of Biological Resources choi mash dhore ai gobeshonati chalye.protisthaner pokhho theke…

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  • South East Asia

    Singapore : SPF joins Interpol in operation to combat illegal soccer gambling in Asia

    Major news in <The Strait Times> : SPF joins Interpol in operation to combat illegal soccer gambling in Asia The Singapore Police Force (SPF) has participated in an Interpol-coordinated operation, code-named Operation Soccer Gambling (Soga) IV. The police in Singapore, across China (including Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR), Indonesia, Malaysia,…

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  • South East Asia

    Cambodia : Cambodia mulls over atomic energy power

    Major news in <The Phnom Pen Post> :  Cambodia mulls over atomic energy power Cambodia is mulling over a nuclear power option to feed its anemic energy sector, although private sector pundits called the rough plan a dream – a dangerous one at that. The government plans to use atomic energy…

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  • Politics

    [Indonesia Report] ASEAN Hopes to settle dispute on South China Sea

    Amid tension in South China Sea, ASEAN countries are expected to release a statement of unity of their stands on South China Sea dispute this week. ASEAN Ministerial Meeting’s unprecedented failure to issue communiqué last week, raised concern over ASEAN’s unity. They failed to reach a consensus after Cambodia objection…

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  • West Asia

    Heatwave Attracts Iranian Kids To Fountain

    Iranian children cool off at a fountain in Tehran, Iran, July 19, 2012. A heatwave with the temperature of over 36 degrees Celsius swept the city. <Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz> news@theasian.asia

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  • Migrant women ask protection from husbands’ violence

    Two married migrants women were killed by the violence of their Korean husbands during this month. It touched off a rally in front of Deoksu Palace in downtown Seoul Wednesday (July 18) by some 150 migrant women living here. According to the police, Lee Sun-ok, an ethnic Korean living in…

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