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South East Asia
Singapore’s 2025 Election: Stability at the Ballot, Strains Beneath
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s, from People’s Action Party (PAP), second from right, thanks his supporters and voters at an assembly area for People’s Action Party supporters, on the day of the general election in Singapore, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photo : AP/Yonhap) Singapore General Election (GE) on May 3 that…
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Column
Three Nations, One Brotherhood: South Korea, Turkey, and Pakistan
By Nasir AijazThe AsiaN Representative LAHORE, PAKISTAN: A question that has intrigued me for a long time is whether Pakistan and South Korea can be considered brotherly nations, like Turkey and Pakistan. This thought came to mind again when the Turkish President led a high-level delegation to Pakistan this February.…
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Column
AJA statement following death of Iran’s president
SEOUL: The death of the president of any country is an exceptional event, especially if that departure occurred during a plane crash, as was confirmed with the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. The Asia Journalist Association(AJA) does not view the departure of the Iranian leader from the point of…
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Society
CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa launched in Egypt
CAIRO: An annual award will celebrate the important work done by African publishers, a report written by Kuhelika Ghosh, Brittle Paper, said. The CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa was launched in Cairo, Egypt in November 2023. The annual prize will be awarded to the publisher of the best African…
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Education
World Poetry Movement calls for defending human beings and their dignity
MEDELLIN: The World Poetry Movement (WPM), a coordination of organizations and poets, international poetry festivals, educational projects and poetry publishers, has urged the international agencies to assume their legal and ethical responsibilities and provide protection and justice to the Palestinian people. WPM has also called on the free international public…
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Politics
NATO’s partnerships in Asia: Practical cooperation in response to changes in global security environment?
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol By Habib Toumi SEOUL: Individually Tailored Partnership Programs, cooperation on transnational issues that span regional borders, enhanced military information sharing, a potential new liaison office … the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is rapidly deepening engagement with its Asia…
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Politics
NATO and its partners: An inevitable global security architecture?
Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (Yonhap) By Habib Toumi SEOUL: Amid the recent moves by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to create a series of overlapping and distinctive multilateral and mini-lateral alliances beyond its initial geographical limits, reactions across the globe…
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Education
South Korea’s dynamics with NATO to demonstrate its capabilities as a pivotal state
By Habib Toumi TUNIS: History was made in the June 2022 Madrid North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit with the groundbreaking participation of two far-eastern states, South Korea and Japan, as well as Australia and New Zealand, all partners from the Asia-Pacific region. Within the strategic competition over the core principles…
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Society
No future for newspaper columns, opinions?
By Habib Toumi MANAMA: Sipping an orange juice with friends as the world celebrated World Press Freedom Day, I was confronted with a “negative” attitude that underestimates writing in the realm of nonfiction. “Writing editorials and columns is no longer relevant,” some of them said during our conversation. Their logic is…
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Society
Enhancing the use of social media as an early warning system
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: Social media should finally play an important role in society. As the name suggests, these are social and can take on important tasks as media – being in the service of a healthy society. This is another chance and a challenge as well, to give…
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