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West Asia
Syrian Rebel Forces Take Out Body Of Gov’t Soldier After Heavy Clash
The body of a Syrian Army soldier lies in a trench after heavy clashes with government forces at a military academy besieged by the rebels(Free Syrian Army) in Tal Sheer, Syria, Sunday, Dec 16, 2012. Free Syrian fighters remove the body of a Syrian Army Soldier after heavy clashes with…
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East Asia
Noda Announces Resignation After His Party Suffered Big Loss In General Election
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda arrives for a press conference after his Democratic Party of Japan made a big loss in parliamentary election in Tokyo Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Noda announced his resignation as the DPJ chief. Japan’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in a landslide election victory…
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West Asia
Masked Palestinian Militants Undergo Rigorous Exercise Near Gaza City
Masked Palestinian militants from Islamic Jihad are seen during a training exercise on the outskirts of Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Eight days of fighting last month between Israel and Hamas ended with an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. Masked Palestinian militants from Islamic Jihad carry a homemade rocket during a training…
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South East Asia
[The AsiaN Video for Indonesian] Putinism
Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Berikut adalah opini Chris Monday, Asosiate Professor di Dongseo University, Korea, mengenai kepemimpinan Putin yang ke dua. Bagi mereka yang mengikuti berita utama, Putin II mungkin tampak progresif. Sebagai lawan kepemimpinan pertama Putin, tidak ada penutupan stasiun televisi yang kontroversial, tidak ada kasus yang…
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East Asia
Candidates woo voters in southeastern region
With the Dec. 19 presidential election less than a week away, candidates of the ruling and main opposition party visited the nation’s southeastern region ― South Gyeongsang Province and Busan ― Friday to woo voters there as they enter the final stretch of the presidential race. The area, long regarded as conservative…
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East Asia
Pampering or disciplining?
If Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in appear hard to distinguish over their domestic policy, North Korea’s rocket launch should be something to separate one from the other and help voters determine who they will vote for. There is no general standard by which one candidate is better than the other.…
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East Asia
Power saving drive
Firms compete to save energy to avoid blackout Companies face increasing pressure to create ideas for reducing electricity consumption as the country is bracing for an “unprecedented” shortage of power during the winter. Scores of ideas have been generated and applied to work places as part of efforts to…
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Janssen hit for kickbacks
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) has banned four pharmaceutical companies from selling some of their products for 30 days for offering kickbacks to doctors and pharmacists. The Korea drug regulator said Friday that it took administrative action against a multinational drug maker and three domestic firms for trying…
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West Asia
Kuwait’s new port, now being built, will be completed by 2020
Efforts to transform Kuwait’s logistics infrastructure are gathering pace following the announcement that the first phase of the $1.2bn Mubarak Al Kabir port development is on track for completion in the second quarter of 2014. The port, which will have an initial annual cargo-handling capacity of 1.8m containers, forms a…
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West Asia
“President, are you in your right mind?”
A president who lost his decision. His decisions are killing, not only others, but himself.
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