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South Asia
Completion of Hoshab-Sorab highway a milestone for Pakistan
Nazir Siyal – Gwadar/Turbat Director General Frontier Works Organization (FWO) Lieutenant General Muhammed Afzal highlighted that it was another landmark in the history of Pakistan that under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) objectives they have completed major portions of road communication in Baluchistan to connect western route via different national arteries…
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East Asia
Experts rebuke Beijing government plan to list smog as meteorological disaster
The decision of Beijing authorities to list smog as a meteorological disaster has sparked strong disapproval among Chinese scholars, who believe that such a move could offer polluters a legal basis to avoid punishment. According to the second version of the draft of the Beijing Meteorological Disasters Prevention and Control…
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East Asia
Trump questions US commitment to ‘one-China’ policy
US President-elect Donald Trump has questioned America’s commitment to the “one-China” principle in the China-Taiwan row, saying Washington should only side with Beijing on certain conditions. Trump made the remarks in an interview with Fox News on Sunday, about a week after angering China with a controversial phone conversation with…
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East Asia
Reporter/Correspondent Position at Asia Journalist Association
Asia Journalist Association (AJA) publishes a monthly journal in South Korea as “MagazineN” in addition to the existing on-line media, THE AsiaN (http://theasian.asia/) serving in English, Arabic and Korean. Job Description: Asia Journalist Association is seeking an opportunity to hire one (1) correspondent/reporter with its newsroom team based in Seoul.…
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East Asia
Should the U.S., Europe and Japan recognize China as a country of market economy?
Mei Xinyu (People’s Daily Online) There is a simple and clear answer to this question. In Article 15 of the Protocol on the Accession of the People’s Republic of China to the WTO, subparagraph (a) and subparagraph (b) make it clear that “in any event, the provisions of subparagraph (a)…
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East Asia
Tehran and Beijing begin $3bn oil cooperation
Iranian deputy oil minister said Iran and China will jointly launch a three-billion-dollar oil project to develop and optimize Abadan Refinery. Managing Director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) Abbas Kazemi, while expounding on the first major agreement between Iran and China in the post-JCPOA era, said…
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East Asia
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Central Asia
What comes next after mining?
Chintushig Boldsukh – The UB Post Ever since the 2001 discovery of the Oyu Tolgoi mine by Ivanhoe Mines, there has been an equal amount of optimism and cautionary sentiment regarding the use of the resource model to develop the economy. While many have recognized the potential that a thriving…
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East Asia
Development in Korea, India
Ranjit Kumar Dhawan – The Korea Times November 14 of this year marked the hundredth birthday of an iconic Korean leader, Park Chung-hee. Although Park has been criticized for being authoritarian and conservative, it was under his leadership that Korea witnessed rapid economic transformation. It was largely due to the…
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East Asia
China expected to be listed among high-income countries by 2022
Reform will boost the growth potential of China’s economy, and China is expected to achieve GDP per capita of $12,600 in 2022, making it a high-income country, said Cai Fang, deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, Shanghai Securities News reported. Cai made his remarks at a Dec.…
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