• Column

    Imprisonment of 33 opposition leaders heightens tension in Bangladesh

    DHAKA – In  a  quickly  developed  political  tension  in  Bangladesh,   thirty-three key leaders of the  18-party opposition alliances were sent to Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday  promting  another  spell of  violence  and  unrest  in  the country. The  Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court  in  Dhaka  rejected their bail petitions in an arson attack…

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  • East Asia

    Major news in Japan on May 17

    Top news in <NHK>: Japan’s Jan-March GDP grows news@theasian.asia

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  • West Asia

    Major news in Jordan on May 17: Facebook campaign says no to price hikes

    Top news in <Jordan Times>: Facebook campaign says no to price hikes news@theasian.asia

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  • South Asia

    Falling Value Of Indian Rupee

    A vendor counts Indian rupee banknotes at a wholesale vegetable market in Allahabad, India,Thursday, May 17, 2012. The Indian rupee hit a fresh all-time low against the dollar Wednesday, as risk averse global investors wary of India’s twin deficits drowned out central bank efforts to stem the currency’s slide. <AP/Newsis>…

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  • East Asia

    “Scarborough Shoal Is Our Land”

    Protesters display placards and a replica of the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea as they burn an effigy of a U.S. submarine USS North Carolina, currently on a port call in the country, during a rally at the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines Thursday May 17, 2012.…

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  • Column

    Park Geun-hye’s chance and crisis

    All eyes in the political sector have been fixed on the recent development surrounding the strife-ridden Unified Progressive Party (UPP). Many of the party members are those who fought against the previous dictatorial governments in the 1970s and 1980s. It seems the members especially the mainstreamers belonging to NL (National…

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  • More foreigners seek medical services

    Three year-old Trepova Malika from Kazakhstan is in Korea to receive treatment for cancer from a hospital in Seoul. Treatment in her own country to remove the tumor near her hip was ineffective and her condition showed no improvement. With no other options, she checked into Yonsei Severance Hospital, one…

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  • Column

    AJA教师节聚会的深刻印象

    大家好，我是王璇。又和大家见面了。 昨天（5月15日）是韩国一年一度的教师节，亚洲记者协会（AJA）在韩国首尔新闻中心举办了庆典晚宴，向一年以来为韩国教育事业孜孜不倦地付出辛勤劳动的教职工作人员表达深刻的谢意。 与会成员包括了来自世界各地的著名记者、资深教授、知名艺术家、音乐人，以及来自世界各地留学生等社会各界代表。 大家齐聚一堂，观赏艺术表演，外国学生代表分享了求学经历，讲述了发生在不同国家令人感动的师生情谊。中国学生代表还当众宣读了写给多年来为培育中国留学生付出努力的韩国老教授的一封信。 如果您想知道更多的信息，欢迎您点击我们的网站详细浏览。 我们的地址是：www.theasian.asia. 今天就到这里谢谢您的收看，我们下次再见。

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  • IT-Science

    KT CEO blasts big firms for ‘free riding’

      KT Chief Executive Lee Suk-chae has urged the government and the nation’s leading technology companies LG and Samsung Electronics to pay for using its networks. “Korea needs a new paradigm. The digital revolution has changed everything. Despite heavy data traffic amid rapid rises of data-intensive devices such as tablets…

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  • Society

    Blind dates going instant, shallow

    Young adults flock to ‘booking bars’ in search of dateing partners Dozens of young people in their early 20s were standing in line outside a bar on Friday night. Although there was a two to three hour wait for those toward the back to enter the bar in the Hongdae…

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