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East Asia
Rushing to North Korea’s aid
Donald Kirk – The Korea Times North Korea is truly a schizophrenic state. All in a day we hear about the need for generous foreign donors to come to the rescue of thousands of victims of flooding in the hard-scrabble northeast where life is tough in the best of times.…
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East Asia
THAAD and anti-Chinese sentiment
Sah Dong-seok – The Korea Times Anti-American sentiment was once a hot-button issue in Korea. Koreans’ antipathy against the United States flared up amid allegations that their traditional ally has supported military dictatorship for decades. Arguments that the U.S. turned a blind eye to the military’s massacre of civilians in the…
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Central Asia
Turkmenistan supports Afghanistan’s sustainable development
Turkmenistan supports Afghanistan’s sustainable development by initiating only peaceful settlement of the country’s problems and speaks for speedy implementation of new long-term economic projects, said Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. He made the remarks during the meeting with President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Takehiko Nakao who has arrived in…
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Central Asia
Trade turnover of Iran and Azerbaijan may surpass $300 million
The volume of trade turnover between Iran and Azerbaijan currently stands at about $100 million but it must increase considerably, the Iranian deputy minister of industry, mine and trade, Hossin Esfahbodi, said on the sidelines of the ongoing Iran Project 2016 in Baku, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. Elaborating on existing trade…
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Central Asia
Russia to deploy S-400 air defense missile systems in Leningrad region
Two regiments of the S-400 air defense missile systems will be delivered to the Air Force and Air Defense unit deployed in the Leningrad region in the near future, the head of Russia’s Western Military Command’s press service Igor Muginov told journalists on September 21, TASS reports. “At this time,…
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Central Asia
Kazakhstan to produce fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants
The Chairman of the Board of the Kazakh Atomic Company ‘Kazatomprom’, Askar Zhumagaliev, and the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister, Igor Nasalik, discussed possible supplies of nuclear fuel from Kazakhstan to Ukraine, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. Production of nuclear fuel for Ukrainian nuclear reactors in Kazakhstan was the main topic…
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East Asia
Russian diplomats broke traffic laws most frequently
Among foreign missions in Korea, Russian diplomats have broken traffic laws most frequently over the past five years, according to a lawmaker. Citing data from the National Police Agency, Rep. Shim Jae-kwon of the main opposition Minjoo Party of Korea (MPK) said vehicles registered with the Russian embassy committed 107…
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East Asia
Where are Seoul-Beijing ties heading?
John Burton – The Korea Times The recent explosion of North Korea’s fifth and biggest nuclear bomb raises a key question of the whether the test will bring South Korea and China closer together or further apart. The test has hardened President Park Geun-hye’s determination to deploy the U.S. advanced…
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East Asia
S. Korea unlikely to help N. Korea recover from flood damage
South Korea said Monday that there is not much possibility that it will provide assistance to North Korea to help it recover from damage caused by recent floods given the high tensions following Pyongyang’s nuclear test. North Korea’s northeastern region is struggling to cope with what is being called its…
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West Asia
Kutaisi University Town to be the biggest one in Caucasus
A new university town is planned for Kutaisi, western Georgia, set to be the largest of its kind in the Caucasus region. Equipped with modern infrastructure and new laboratories, it will be an educational-scientific center for the western part of Georgia, as well as for the wider region, Georgia Today…
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