• Business

    Road to GMO?

    Biotech giants find opportunity in food insecurity The severe drought in the United States this year is set to take its toll on Korean households’ dining tables. The U.S. accounted for some 40 percent of global corn production in 2010 while the U.S., Argentina and Brazil together produced more than…

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  • South East Asia

    [The AsiaN Video for Indonesian] Camp Konsentrasi di Korea Utara

    Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Berikut adalah berita mengenai perdebatan reunifikasi Korea Utara dan Korea Selatan. Donald Kirk dalam artikel yang ditulisnya untuk Korea Times, mengkritik para professor dan pejabat yang baru-baru ini mengadakan konferens mengenai reunifikasi Korea Selatan dan Korea Utara. Kirk mempertanyakan mengapa para ahli dari Universitas…

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  • East Asia

    Lots of illicit money flows out of China

    An astonishing US$3.97 trillion in illicit funds left China between 2000 and 2011, according to a report released Friday by the Washington, DC-based Global Financial Integrity, a research and advocacy group. As much as 10 percent of China’s annual gross domestic product may be disappearing out of the country in…

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  • People

    New Zealander loses 120 kg through surgery

    Sciascia named honorary ambassador for medical tourism A morbidly obese New Zealander who had received bariatric surgery in Korea a year and a half ago came back to Seoul half her original size and looking ahead to lose more weight. Jasmin Sciascia, 27, who had been under spotlight since last…

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  • Arabic popular for 2nd-language test

    More students are choosing Arabic as their second foreign language option for the national scholastic aptitude test. According to the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, around 40 percent of students selected Arabic as their option for a second foreign language in the College Scholastic Ability Test this year. A…

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  • World

    Sandy’s leadership lesson

    For some crazy moment on Monday when “Frankenstorm” Sandy was threatening to tear a hole in our roof and I was sure we would lose power, I remembered a funny cartoon from the summer when a freak “Derecho” storm did rob us of power for two days. It featured a…

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  • Africa’s big boom

    PARIS ― Africa is undergoing a period of unprecedented economic growth. According to the Economist, six of the 10 fastest-growing countries in 2011 were in Africa. Average external debt on the continent has fallen from 63 percent of GDP in 2000 to 22.2 percent this year, while average inflation now…

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  • East Asia

    [The AsiaN Video for Indonesian] Perusahaan Penerbangan Korea Utara Membuka Layanan Internet

    Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Berikut adalah berita dari Korea utara. Air Koryo, Angkutan Udara Nasional Korea Utara menarik perhatian setelah baru-baru ini membuka layanan pemesanan melalui internet, dalam signal terbaru Pyongyang yang tampak berusahan mengejar perkembangan dunia. Situs tersebut menyediakan layanan pemesanan dan pembelian tiket yang lebih mudah,…

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  • South East Asia

    [The AsiaN Video for Indonesian] Jumlah Ekspatriat di Seoul Meningkat 32 Kali Lipat

    Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Berikut adalah berita mengenai perkembangan Seoul menjadi kota global. Berdasarkan sebuah survey yang baru saja dilakukan, sekitar 280.000 warga Negara asing menetap di Seoul pada 2011, meningkat 32 kali lipat dari total jumlah 51 tahun yang lalu. Laporan Tahunan Statistik Kota Seoul menunjukkan bahwa…

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  • South East Asia

    [Indonesia Report] Indonesia will strengthen cooperation with Britain in energy resources

    Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s  visits to London last week will promote cooperation between Jakarta and London in the field of energy and resources. According toKompos.com,  Indonesian Minister of Natural and Mineral Resources Jero Wacik who accompanied the president said that Indonesian government asked for more investment from British Oil and Gas Companies. Development of Natural Resource…

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