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South East Asia
Changes seen in Indonesia as Jokowi moves
“Reformasi”, the slogan of the 7th Indonesian President Joko Widodo, is taking shape in his first month in office as the leader of the biggest Muslim state in the world. Six days after his inauguration, Jokowi announced his working cabinet, eight days faster than the 14-day deadline mandated by law.…
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East Asia
Growing Naypyidaw hosts 25th ASEAN Summit
The 25th ASEAN Summit was held in the Naypyidaw, Myanmar from November 12th to 13th, 2014, which was attended by 10 ASEAN heads of government. The ASEAN Summit, held biannually since the 14th ASEAN Summit in Cha Am, Thailand, was headed by Myanmar for the first time since its ascension…
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West Asia
Foreign Arab envoys ‘back to business’ in Qatar
Ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will be returning to the city-state of Qatar after an 8-month long absence. In an attempt to reconnect with its long standing partners, Qatar has requested some of the senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood to leave the country in September.…
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East Asia
First Beijing IPR court to open in November
A court that specializes in intellectual property rights cases will open in the Chinese capital Beijing in November. The Beijing News reports that on November 2nd, the Standing Committee of the Beijing People’s Congress appointed Su Chi (57), the associate magistrate in one of Beijing’s intermediate courts, to be the…
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East Asia
A Tale of the Three Shipbuilding Nations – A long long tunnel
The global shipbuilding market, which has stayed caught in a trap of overcapacity, is still struggling to exit from the long and dark tunnel. According to Clarkson Research, the global NB orders contracted this year to September totals 1,388 ships (92.02 mil dwt, 30.80 mil cgt, $352 million), declining 32%…
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East Asia
Hyosung, the one that brings the smiles back to Vietnamese citizens ‘Smile Searchers’
Korean Companies for Asia (1) In Dong Nai, a province near Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam, a lot of people that are sick do not receive medical attention. In most cases, a simple cough medicine requires a day’s labor for them or that there is no money to commute going…
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East Asia
AFoCo Celebrates 2nd Anniversary, sharing achievement and vision towards “A Greener Asia”
ASEAN-ROK Forest Cooperation (AFoCo) celebrated its 2nd Anniversary on 20th October 2014 in Seoul, Korea. The AFoCo is a regional cooperation mechanism in forest sector, which was formalized upon the entry into force of the “Agreement between the Governments of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…
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