• Business

    Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety permits import of aguaje oil

    By Seok-Jae Kang Asia Journalists Association Vice President  SEOUL: The Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has approved imports of aguaje oil from the Peruvian jungles on July 15, 2022, according to a local trading company. The Korean firm, Worldone Trade Co. Ltd., said it will start importing aguaje…

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  • Society

    Nomad fashion highlighted at world festival in Kyrgyzstan’s Cholpon-Ata

    CHOLPON-ATA: The third edition of the World Nomad Fashion festival in Cholpon-Ata, Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, a special platform to celebrate and popularize traditional knowledge, culture and clothing history, has concluded on a high note. The festival at the Rukh-Ordo cultural center was attended by famous designers, artisans and specialists in the fashion…

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  • Politics

    Ire among some in Singapore over Sri Lankan Terminator’s stay

    By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: The unexpected arrival in Singapore of former Sri Lankan strongman Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 73, on July 1, has caused anger among some people in the Republic and raised inconvenient questions for the authorities here. Critics, overlooking the fact that he tendered…

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  • Culture

    Celebrating the 1100th Anniversary of Ahmed Ibn Fadlan’s Travel to Tatarstan

    By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association ALEXANDRIA: On July 14, the Media Club had its monthly forum in the Russian House of Alexandria on the topic: “1100 years since the arrival of the mission of the traveler Ibn Fadlan to Tatarstan”. The event was attended by Mr. Pavel Kydysyuk…

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  • Politics

    Shinzo Abe’s murder raises troubling questions

    By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN  SINGAPORE: The tragic untimely death of Shinzo Abe at the hands of an assassin has raised some troubling questions. One: Is there a shortcoming that in a robust democracy like Japan citizens still have to resort toviolence to resolve their grievances…

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  • AJA Statement

    AJA condemns assassination of Japan’s former PM Shinzo Abe

    SEOUL: Asia Journalists Association (AJA) condemns the assassination of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Seeking to mute a voice through assassination is a barbaric, cowardly and intolerable act that challenges a core foundation of democracy and freedom of expression. AJA calls on civil society and all people to unite…

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  • Society

    New WT-ADF Cares projects kick off in Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Timor-Leste

    By Seok-Jae Kang Asia Journalists Association Vice President  SEOUL: World Taekwondo (WT) and the Asia Development Foundation (ADF) kicked off their new WT-ADF Cares Program in three countries – Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Timor-Leste – on July 1, 2022 for a one-year period. The new WT-ADF Cares projects, funded by the…

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  • South East Asia

    The invasion of Ukraine by its larger neighbour

    By Ivan Lim, Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN   SINGAPORE: The world reacted with outrage when Vladirmir Putin sent Russian tanks and troops into Ukraine in a so-called special military operation to subdue a sovereign state that was bent on allying with the United States-backed European economic and military bloc.…

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  • Politics

    Safety Waves versus Death Waves

    A keynote speech at the 60th African literature and writers’ anniversary conference By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid IBADAN, NIGERIA: In our time, we live in more than one circle; circles that narrow and widen, touch, overlap and intersect, and sometimes even resist each other, and contradict with other circles. They are circles…

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  • Culture

    The Hour Glass

    By Pooneh Nedai, Editor in chief of Shokaran magazine – Iran Just a little spark In the neighbor galaxy It was me Who lost my way to the milky way And found my wings on the earth Dusty, bloody and thorn   I am not aware of the location This…

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