• South East Asia

    [The AsiaN Video for Indonesian] Putinism

    Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Berikut adalah opini Chris Monday, Asosiate Professor di Dongseo University, Korea, mengenai kepemimpinan Putin yang ke dua. Bagi mereka yang mengikuti berita utama, Putin II mungkin tampak progresif. Sebagai lawan kepemimpinan pertama Putin, tidak ada penutupan stasiun televisi yang kontroversial, tidak ada kasus yang…

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  • East Asia

    Candidates woo voters in southeastern region

    With the Dec. 19 presidential election less than a week away, candidates of the ruling and main opposition party visited the nation’s southeastern region ― South Gyeongsang Province and Busan ― Friday to woo voters there as they enter the final stretch of the presidential race. The area, long regarded as conservative…

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  • East Asia

    Pampering or disciplining?

    If Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in appear hard to distinguish over their domestic policy, North Korea’s rocket launch should be something to separate one from the other and help voters determine who they will vote for. There is no general standard by which one candidate is better than the other.…

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  • East Asia

    Power saving drive

    Firms compete to save energy to avoid blackout Companies face increasing pressure to create ideas for reducing electricity consumption as the country is bracing for an “unprecedented” shortage of power during the winter.   Scores of ideas have been generated and applied to work places as part of efforts to…

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  • Janssen hit for kickbacks

    The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has banned four pharmaceutical companies from selling some of their products for 30 days for offering kickbacks to doctors and pharmacists. The Korea drug regulator said Friday that it took administrative action against a multinational drug maker and three domestic firms for trying…

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  • West Asia

    Kuwait’s new port, now being built, will be completed by 2020

    Efforts to transform Kuwait’s logistics infrastructure are gathering pace following the announcement that the first phase of the $1.2bn Mubarak Al Kabir port development is on track for completion in the second quarter of 2014. The port, which will have an initial annual cargo-handling capacity of 1.8m containers, forms a…

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  • West Asia

    “President, are you in your right mind?”

    A president who lost his decision. His decisions are killing, not only others, but himself.

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  • East Asia

    U.S. may consider buying off improved NK missile capabilities

    So it has been almost one year since the world learnt about the sudden and untimely demise of Marshall Kim Jong Il, the Lodestar of the Twenty-first Century.  What has happened in North Korea over the last year, what was predicted and what was not? Perhaps, it is a good…

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  • East Asia

    Coffee Bar Themed By Cat Opens In Harbin, Northeast China

      Shopkeeper Gao Ming feeds a cat at her cat-themed coffee bar in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 13, 2012. The coffee bar opened recently is themed by cat, with 16 cats and all kinds of decorations related to cat in the bar. Gao Ming, 25-year-old shopkeeper…

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  • South East Asia

    Children Delighted Watching Fish At An Aquarium In Kuala Lumpur

    Children watch fish on display at an aquarium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. A woman watches fish on display at an aquarium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. <AP/NEWSis/Vincent Thian>

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