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East Asia
[1000th Wednesday] Danyang High School Girls
Danyang High School girls at the rally. Danyang is a part of Chungcheongbuk-do, approximately three hours away from Seoul. They had to depart as early as 7am to attend the historic occasion. <Photograph: Kris Min>
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People
Park Tae-joon, Father of Steel Dies at 84
Park Tae-joon, the creator of Posco, one of the world’s largest steel companies that helped to lay the foundations for South Korea’s rise from a devastated postwar society into an industrial powerhouse, died on Tuesday in Seoul at the age of 84. According to Lee Sung-man, a spokesman for…
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East Asia
Every Wednesday They Have Cried Out
Another “Wednesday Demonstration” was held on 14th in front of the Embassy of Japan in Seoul. The former sex slaves, euphemistically called “comfort women” have held a “Wednesday Demonstration” every week since January 1992 and today, 1000th demonstration was staged. Those elderly Korean women have called upon Japan to…
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West Asia
Syrians Vote for LAC
A Syrian girl shows her ink-stained finger after voting at a polling station in Damascus, capital of Syria, on Dec. 12, 2011. Syrians across the country began voting on Monday to elect the representatives of the Local Administration Councils (LAC). <Photograph: Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
China Holds WTO High Level Forum
Chinese President Hu Jintao delivers a speech during the high level forum on the 10th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 11, 2011. <Photo=Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Hu Jintao Delivers Speech in WTO Forum
Chinese President Hu Jintao delivers a speech during the high level forum on the 10th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 11, 2011. <Photo=Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Hu Jintao Attends WTO High Level Forum
Chinese President Hu Jintao (Front), Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy (Left), Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Supachai Panitchpakdi (3rd L) and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (4th L) arrive for the high level forum on the 10th anniversary of China’s accession to…
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Column
Coolgogi···Internationalising Asian Flavours the Korean Journey
Eat a branding exercise A cliché for starters – the world is getting smaller. In one fell swoop and with one great invention called the internet – physical and imaginary mysterious social borders have all come crashing down. Everyone on the net wants to be a cool citizen of the…
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Politics
Libyan Revolution and North Korea
So,Colonel Gaddafi is dead, and the Libyan revolution has succeeded. Its triumph is usually presented in the Western media as another great victory of democracy. It remains to be seen to what extent this optimism is warranted. But there is little doubt that news from Libya has further complicated the…
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World
The Fallen Four of the Middle East
With the scene of (previous) Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, signing the agreement of authority transfer in his own country, we come to an end for the fourth dictator of the famous photo, taken in Libya, representing him, with his colleagues; the escaping president of Tunisia; Bin Ali, who fled…
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