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East Asia
To recall 1988 Seoul Olympics
By Park Moo-jong – The Korea Times Finally, it’s time for the Olympics to beat the heat of this scorching summer. The 2016 Summer Olympics, ironically during the winter season of the host city of Rio de Janeiro, will kick off its 17-day run at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning (Korean…
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East Asia
New energy industry: Korea’s next growth engine
By Joo Hyung-hwan – The Korea Times Korea has never stopped seeking fast-growing sectors for targeted investments that can provide new impetus to the country’s economic growth. As its latest initiative for a new growth engine, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) unveiled a detailed investment plan on…
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East Asia
Apathy about North Korea
Casey Lartigue Jr. – The Korea Times I recently attended a United Nations conference in Seoul at which a couple of distinguished speakers asked: Why aren’t more of the almost 30,000 North Korean refugees directly involved in activism against North Korea? A few others at the conference asked: Why don’t…
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East Asia
China, Russia to take counter-measures over THAAD deployment
China and Russia will take counter-measures against the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in South Korea, read an editorial published in the People’s Daily on August 4. The decision of the US and South Korea to deploy THAAD will pose a threat to the strategic security…
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East Asia
China opens South China Sea website
People’s Daily – China on Wednesday opened a website on the South China Sea, complete with historical maps, articles and research, according to the State Oceanic Administration (SOA). Run by the National Marine Data &Information Service, the Chinese language site has 10 sections that cover basic information, news, historical archives,…
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East Asia
Japan to invest $10bn in Iran
Iranian officials declared that Japan to move faster on presenting a credit package worth $10 billion for investment in Iran. Mehr New Agency reports that Iranian Deputy Oil Minister for International Affairs Amir Hossein Zamaninia touched upon negotiations with Japan over investment in Iran’s oil industry adding that “Japan has…
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Central Asia
Uzbekistan Airways reduces passenger transportation
Trend News Agency reports that Uzbekistan National Airways (Ozbekiston Havo Yollari) carried 1.177 million passengers in January-June 2016. Uzbekistan Airways transported 1.235 passengers during the same period of 2015. Thus, the company reduced passenger traffic by 4.7 percent in January-June 2016 compared to the same period of 2015. In 1H2016,…
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East Asia
In Search of Korean values
Michael Breen – The Korea Times In its research last year to develop the new national brand ― Creative Korea ― the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism came up with three key national values: creativity, passion and harmony. But are these really the core values of Korea? Harmony could…
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East Asia
THAAD and Korea’s Cold War lessons
Arthur I. Cyr – The Korea Times Sustained North Korea threats, and nuclear weapon and missile tests, have led the Obama administration and President Park Geun-hye’s government of South Korea to agree to deploy the Lockheed Martin THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Air Defense) anti-missile system. Beijing is reacting with consternation,…
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South East Asia
Bangladeshi News Agency Reports The AsiaN News
The Bangladeshi news agency Narayanganj has reported The AsiaN`s publication, titled “The Female Mayors in Asian Countries” which includes 20 different female mayor’s name. The Narayanganj has quoted the section about successful female mayor Selina Hayat Ivy. Ivy is a Bangladeshi politician, a physician and current city mayor of Narayanganj.…
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