• East Asia

    Major news in Japan on May 7

    Top news in <NHK>: N.Korea criticizes UNSC permanent members news@theasian.asia

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  • Significance of May Day changed a lot

    ISTANBUL – In many countries, May Day is a day of national celebration. In Turkey, however, May 1 has always had contradictory meanings. Compared to our past experiences on Labor Day as Turkish citizens, some differences in this year’s celebrations were remarkable. For many years, May Day was perceived as…

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  • South Asia

    Home Celebration of Mother’s Day In India

    An Indian woman plays with her child at the doorway of her house ahead of Mother’s Day, in Allahabad, India, Sunday, May 6, 2012. Mother’s Day will be celebrated on May 13. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia

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  • Lifestyle

    Art embraces fashion

    The boundary of fine art is being blurred and becoming ever more diversified. Incorporating fashion into art is the latest of this movement. Fashion exhibitions have become a part of major fine art museums across the globe. “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and “Balenciaga and…

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  • Rebirth of progressives

    Only thorough self-reform ensures leftists’ survival Korea’s political progressives, a perennial minority, have often resorted to radical, and violent, tactics to make themselves seen and heard. They destroyed furniture at the National Assembly Secretariat and detonated a tear gas canister in its main chamber. Those misconducts were largely forgiven, as…

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  • Society

    Fire kills 9 at Busan karaoke

    Nine people, including three Sri Lankan nationals, were killed and dozens were injured in a fire at karaoke rooms in Busan, Saturday. The fire broke out at around 8:52 p.m. on the third floor of a six-story building in the bustling district of Bujeon-dong. Seven men and two women died…

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  • East Asia

    Royal ritual

    A ritual specialist wearing a king’s costume enters Jongmyo, a UNESCO-registered royal shrine from the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910) in central Seoul, to reenact Jongmyo Jerye, Sunday. Jongmyo Jerye is a royal ancestral ritual paying tribute to the kings and queens of the kingdom and was listed as a UNESCO Intangible…

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  • Kenya to emulate Korea’s development model

    ‘We need Koreans’ technology, experience and energy,’ envoy says Korea’s relationship with Kenya and, by extension, with the African continent, is poised to take a leap forward. Korean-Kenyan investment and trade surged in recent years and could jump still higher with direct flights set to begin in June _ that…

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  • Business

    Going global

    We’ve reached a tipping point in how the world works. The largest economy in the world is no longer the economy of any one country — it is the economy of the global trade of goods and services. Countries making an impact in the world of global trade are those…

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  • NK leader ready for China trip: report

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has expressed his intent to visit Beijing later this year in what would be a highly symbolic trip to his country’s most important ally, a Japanese report said Sunday. According to the Nihon Keizai newspaper, the message was conveyed to Chinese President Hu Jintao by…

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