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Deconstructing territorial disputes from outsider’s perspective
* Editor’s note: As the security tension is hightening in East Asia, Korean and international journalists and scholars gathered on Feb. 28 at a seminar hosted by the Asia Journalist Association and discussed the “Asian media’s role for the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes.” Following is the presentation at the seminar by Michael…
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East Asia
DPRK top leader Kim Jong Un inspects a front-line army unit stationed on two southwestern islands
Photo released by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un (C) inspecting a front-line army unit stationed on two southwestern islands in DPRK. Kim Jong Un said on Thursday that the DPRK military was ready to fight an…
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East Asia
Pedestrians walk in Tokyo as 0.2 percent economic growth reported
Pedestrians walk on the crosswalk in Tokyo, Japan, on March 8, 2013. The Japanese economy expanded at an annualized rate of 0.2 percent in the three months through December in inflation-adjusted terms, up from preliminary data, the government data showed Friday. <Xinhua/Kenichiro Seki>
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South East Asia
A man carries mattress in unemployment stricken Myanmar
A man carries mattress on his shoulder at a railway station in Yangon, Myanmar, March 8, 2013. Nearly 350,000 or 56 percent job-seeking workers out of 810,000 registered with Myanmar’s labor department were employed at home and abroad as of the end of 2012, leaving over 500,000 still unemployed, local…
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South East Asia
Accident scene where 11 people were killed in Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
Photo taken on March 8, 2013 shows the debris at the accident site in Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam. At least 11 people were killed and another 49 injured as two coaches collided with each other on Highway 1A in Vietnam’s central Khanh Hoa province early Friday morning, local VnExpress reported.…
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South Asia
A Pakistani girl lights candles during a vigil for the bombing victims
A Pakistani Shiite Muslim girl lights candles during a vigil for the 45 victims killed in a massive bombing last weekend in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on March 8, 2013. About 397 people were killed and over 800 others injured in many bomb blasts that ripped through different…
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South East Asia
Malaysian Sultan Jamalul Kiram III orders unilateral ceasefire
Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, right, of the Sultanate of Sulu, and his daughter Princess Jacel Kiram, talk to the media in their house after attending the Friday prayers at the Blue Mosque at suburban Taguig city east of Manila, Philippines Friday Mar.8, 2013. Kiram III ordered his “Royal Army” followers,…
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East Asia
‘Al Hilal’ Magazine and ‘The AsiaN’ sign a cultural partnership agreement
The Korean future news network ‘The AsiaN’ and the Egyptian magazine ‘Al Hilal’ signed a cultural partnership agreement to support the cooperation between the two institutions in the fields of culture and media. On the Korean side, Mr Lee Sang Ki, the founding president of the Asia Journalist Association (AJA)…
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West Asia
Riot police and protesters clash in a long-drawn battle in Port Said, Egypt
An Egyptian woman runs for cover as riot police throw stones during clashes near a state security building in Port Said, Egypt, Thursday, March 7, 2013. ( Clashes between protesters and police continued into a fifth day on Thursday in the restive Egyptian city of Port Said. <AP Photo/Khalil Hamra>
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East Asia
A group of people in Seoul stage a protest opposing UN saction against NK
South Korean protesters hold signs during a press conference denouncing the UN’s new sanction against North Korea, and the annual joint military exercises, dubbed Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, South Korea and the United States joint military excercise, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 8, 2013.…
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