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World
Will governments agree to kill tobacco farming?
Tobacco farmers around the world will turn their attention to Seoul this week when officials representing more than 170 governments meet to decide their future. The occasion is the World Health Organization’s biennial gathering to amend its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This will be the fifth such session since…
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East Asia
Sheikh Mohamed Abdallah supports The AsiaN in publishing Arabic version
*Editor’s note: Kuwait Times, a major English newspaper published in Kuwait, carried a story with related photograph about meeting between Sheikh Mohammed Al Abdallah Al Sabah, Information Minister of Kuwait, and Lee Sang-ki, head of the AsiaN. Lee visited Kuwait last October in preparation for launching Arabic edition on the occasion of…
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The AsiaN hoped to grow as a media representing Asia & Middle East on occasion of its first founding anniversary
On Nov. 11, 2012, The AsiaN will celebrates its first anniversary of its foundation as an international news media. The AsiaN will add its significance to journalism world in Asia and Middle East since it would also launch its Arabic version following Korean, English and Chinese versions established earlier. With international journalism being dominated by Western Media,…
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East Asia
The AsiaN builds a “New Silk Road” by launching Arabic version
Today, nations are suffering from disasters made by people and nature. Millions of human beings are scattered, among of them are emigrants, exiled, or lost. As if fate is drawing a final end for humanity. The burden of wars is too heavy to carry on with, for women who lost…
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East Asia
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South East Asia
[The AsiaN 1st Anniv] Message from Meidyana Rayana
Selamat Ulang Tahun yang Pertama untuk The AsiaN. Happy first Anniversary for The AsiaN. Hope that The AsiaN will be The Next News Network in the world and can compete with other international medias. And to bring new perspective to international world as being Asian’s voice. Good luck and Success…
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East Asia
Malaise pervades the Korean economy
The Korean economy is now in an anemic state. Pessimists are comparing the economy to a cancer patient waiting for emergency surgery. The patient, they say, is barely clinging to life and, without surgery, could enter a coma. The Korean economy is now growing at just 2 percent annually, with…
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World
Harvard admissions process
Outstanding Korean students who are now agonizing over the college admissions process at top North American universities should take a moment to curse Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933. Concerned that there were too many Jewish students at Harvard, Lowell first tried to implement a…
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No tears for Romney
Now Mitt Romney can go back to doing what he does best, making hundreds of millions off other people’s sweat and tears, investing billions overseas and shipping away the jobs to go with his investments. And he can stop that nonsense about the “blind trust” in which he’d put his…
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The AsiaN in Arabic: A timely & win-win news service to meet needs of Asia and Arab world
“Instead of reading only Shakespeare, Arabs should also read Chinese and Indian literature and poetry in Arabic,” a speaker at the Arab Look East symposium told me. Then paraphrasing a Mahatma Gandhi he added: “Open the windows so you get air and light from all directions. Only don’t let it…
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