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West Asia
Azerbaijan: Israel’s Shia and Secular Partner
The Caspian Basin has a great importance to be a home not only offshore hydro-carbon and gas researches but also conflict and proxy-military/diplomacy clashes. Caspian Basin and also Turkestan region, which cover whole territories from Chinese border through the Uzbek steps, were under control of Russian Imperial goals and continued…
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West Asia
Ibrahim Farghali wins Sawiris Cultural Awards
Egyptian writer Ibrahim Farghali won the Sawiris Cultural Award for best novel in the branch of Established Writers on his latest work “Maabad Anamel Al-Harir” (Temple of Silk Fingertips), published by Difaf and Al-Ikhtilaf. Farghali received the award in a ceremony held at the Cairo Opera House a few days…
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East Asia
Fornasetti : Practical Madness Exhibition
In 2013, for the occasion of the 100th anniversary of artist Piero Fornasetti’s birth, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan organized the exhibition, “Practical Madness.” The exhibition began to tour internationally in 2015 and its arrival in Seoul marks the first-ever showcase of Fornasetti in Asia. Triennale Design Museum decided…
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South East Asia
Bollywood and India
Bollywood is like an insignia of India. Whether they like them or not, everyone knows about Bollywood films – replete with melodrama, song, and dance. Facebook posts show strange Bollywood connections. A new Spanish bride dancing to a Bollywood song on a street. German girls doing a Bollywood number on…
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East Asia
Look Smithsonian
The LOOK Smithsonian exhibition is the first-ever exhibition held by the American Smithsonian Museum in Korea. You can see this astonishing photo exhibition at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza) until March 15th, 2017.The photographs of the exhibition capture meaningful moments as well as pictures with a story behind it. There are…
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East Asia
How China will impact the world economy in 2017
To open up or to close? To advance or go back? The global economy is currently at the crossroads and it is in desperate need of sufficient courage, wisdom and responsibility from around the world to chart a clear direction and path for sustainable economic growth. The upcoming World Economic…
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East Asia
Ban awaits UN opinion over presidential bid
Ban Ki-moon said upon his arrival here Thursday that he is awaiting the United Nations’ opinion about whether it is a violation of a U.N. rule if he runs for the Korean presidency. However, Ban said he personally thinks it does not constitute a violation to seek an elected position…
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East Asia
Can Korea say no to US?
Oh Young-jin – The Korea Times It appears to be unthinkable for South Korea to give up its decades-old alliance with the United States and choose China in its place. However, a combination of events gives a sense of reality to this unlikely scenario. Recently, a group of opposition lawmakers…
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East Asia
Korea Artist Prize 2016
Korea Artist Prize 2016 exhibition features, artists who were selected by MMCA as this year’s Korea Artist Prize awardees. These artist are Kim Eull, Back Seung-woo, Ham Kyung-ah and Mixrice (Yang Chul-mo, Cho Ji-eun and they were chosen through careful studio visits and interviews. The Korea Artist Prize is recognized…
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Central Asia
Syria peace talks in Astana : A new period starts
In summer, 2016 Kazakhstan competently mediated in ending political crisis related to Turkey’s downing of Russian warplane. The diplomatic efforts, intuitively made by Astana to reconcile Russia and Turkey, were made for avoiding the undesirable repercussions of the diplomatic strains between major strategic partners of Kazakhstan. Few people knew that…
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