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East Asia
China’s ban shifting hallyu to Southeast Asia
Kim Jae-heun – The Korea Times China’s recent restrictions on K-pop and K-dramas are shifting the Korean wave, or hallyu, to Southeast Asia, officials said Thursday. China has cancelled a series of concerts and the airing of Korean TV dramas and shows after the Korean government decided to deploy a…
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East Asia
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South Asia
CPEC a dawn of hope for Pakistan and region
Nazir Siyal – KARACHI Pakistan’s Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Friday will inaugurate the first phase of completed section of M-9 Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway at Nooriabad on Feb 03, 2017. Frontier Works Organization (FWO), carrying this project converting existing Super Highway into 6 lanes Motorway with the total cost…
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Business
SK, Daelim win $3 bil. deal in Turkey
SK Engineering & Construction (E&C) and Daelim Industrial won a 3.5 trillion ($3 billion) contract to construct the world’s longest suspension bridge in Turkey, the two companies said Tuesday. A four-way consortium, consisting of SK, Daelim and two Turkish builders, Limak and Yapi Merkezi, was selected as a preferred bidder…
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East Asia
True Story of a Little Girl and a Soldier: Ayla
In 1950, Sergeant Suleyman was one of the thousands of Turkish soldiers who went to South Korea to fight the enemy. Suleyman and Ali, a fellow soldier from Iskenderun, had volunteered to help the people of South Korea and to fight in a war that was taking place in a…
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East Asia
Samsung Electronics surpasses W2 mil.
Samsung Electronics stocks touched 2 million won Thursday, soaring to a record high. It is the first time the electronics giant which debuted on the stock market in 1975 surpassed 2 million won. The world’s leading tech company started trading at 1.97 million won in the morning session, reaching 2…
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Politics
Russia’s Kalashnikov to create 1700 jobs in 2017
Russia’s famed small arms maker Kalashnikov Concern will increase its staff by at least 30% by creating 1700 new jobs in 2017 amid the surge in export orders, the company’s press service said. “The Kalashnikov Concern will create 1700 new jobs this year and thus will increase its core staff…
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East Asia
The Uses of the Space Energy
Last July, as 1,300 corporations of the 21 APEC member states came together at the APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Technology Conference and Fair (APEC-SMETC), Korea Space Energy Co. Ltd was selected as 2016 APEC Best Practices in SME Innovation for its Space Energy Implosion Radiation Generator. This adaptive radiation…
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East Asia
Chinese ministries ban military-type exports to N.Korea
China has released a list of goods that are banned for export to North Korea on Wednesday, including items and technologies that can be used to build weapons of mass destruction, according to the Ministry of Commerce(MOC) website. Expert said that it shows China’s resolution to comply with the UN…
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East Asia
25th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and Uzbekistan
Botirjon Asadov / Uzbekistan Ambassador to South Korea This year the Republic of Korea and Uzbekistan celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. The foundation of bilateral relations between the two nations was laid on Dec. 30, 1991, when South Korea was among the first foreign countries…
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