• East Asia

    China still tops lists of Russian arms importers

    China continues to be one of the largest importers of Russian weapons, Sergei Kornev, the head of the delegation of the Russian state-run arms export agency, Rosoboronexport, at the Airshow China 2016 International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, informed TASS. “China has long been one of the major importers of Russian…

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  • Culture

    Standing with the Standing Rock Reservation

    (Yoon Seok-Hee) Today, over 400 clergies from over 20 different denominations have gathered together to stand with the Standing Rock Reservation’s struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The clergy recognized that the conquest of America was only possible because organized religion sanctioned the massacre and historical erasure of Native…

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  • East Asia

    Park’s approval rating crashes to record-low 5%

    President Park Geun-hye saw her approval rating crash to 5 percent, the lowest for sitting South Korean presidents, as an influence-peddling scandal involving her longtime friend rattled her presidency, data showed Friday, According to a Gallup Korea survey conducted this week, Park’s approval rating plunged 12 percentage points from a…

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  • West Asia

    Turkey threatens to cancel EU migration deal

    Turkey will cancel a migration deal with the European Union if the bloc doesn’t grant visa-free travel to Turkish citizens by the end of the year, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday, a day after a top EU official suggested any visa deal was a long way off, Deutsche Welle…

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  • East Asia

    N. Korea sounding out labor export to Mongolia

    North Korea is seeking ways to export its workers to Mongolia as the central Asian country is recruiting foreign laborers to work at its mines, a U.S. broadcaster, monitored here, said Wednesday. “(As far as I know), the North Korean authorities recently set up ways to make use of its…

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  • East Asia

    Moms and Dads Sports Day marked in China

    Children take part in a race during the Moms and Dads Sports Day at a kindergarten in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Nov. 2, 2016.  (Xinhua/Xu Yu) (wx)

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  • West Asia

    Iranian Turks’ new parliamentary faction breaking more taboos

    Umid Niayesh – Trend.az For the first time in the Islamic Republic’s history, Iranian Turkic-speaking MPs, including Azerbaijanis formed a parliamentary faction calling it “Faction of Turkic Regions.” The faction held its first meeting on Oct. 30 and elected Masoud Pezeshkian and Nader Qazipour, Tabriz and Urmia representatives, as its…

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  • Central Asia

    Kyrgyzstan to hold referendum on constitution on December 11

    Kyrgyzstan’s parliament approved plans for a national referendum to be held on December 11 on proposed constitutional reforms, parliament’s press office said. The reforms would strengthen the powers of the prime minister. The amendments also include provisions granting more powers to the cabinet and to leaders of parliamentary factions, Reuters…

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  • West Asia

    The Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship

    St Aidan’s College of the University of Durham and Banipal magazine of modern Arab literature, with the support of the British Council, are establishing an annual writing fellowship for a published author writing in Arabic, based each year at St Aidan’s College. The Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship will be a…

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  • Central Asia

    Tajik President Officially Launches Construction of Rogun Dam

    Tajikistan has officially started the construction of the Rogun Dam, a massive project that, if completed, would be the world’s tallest and should give the Central Asian nation a stable energy supply, RFERL/RL reports. Italian construction conglomerate Salini Impregilo won a $3.9 billion contract to build the structure, whose opening…

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