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[The AsiaN Video for Indonesian] Pemberontak di Thailand Selatan Membunuh 3 Guru

Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Human Rights Watch meminta pemberontak separatis di perbatasan provinsi selatan Thailand harus segera mengakhiri semua serangan terhadap guru dan sekolah, pada Senin (17 Desember). Dalam serangan terbaru, pada tanggal 11 Desember 2012, etnis pemberontak Muslim Melayu masuk ke dalam sebuah sekolah di provinsi Pattani…
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East Asia

South Koreans elect first female President

South Koreans have elected their first Female President Park Geun-hye who ran for the presidency from the ruling Saenuri Party. Park won approximately 52% of the votes and ended the race by edging her main opponent from the main opposition Democratic United Party Moon Jae-In. Korean media shot Park’s supporters waiting for her…
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Northeast Asia in turbulence

Incoming 3 leaders share responsibility for peace Leadership changes in the three major countries in Northeast Asia wrapped up last week with the election of Park Geun-hye as South Korea’s first woman president. China’s Xi Jinping took over the fifth-generation leadership and will become the president of the world’s most…
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West Asia

Arab Spring comes to Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait ― Little more than a postage stamp in the Persian Gulf, Kuwait sits in a strategic position and offers a liberal model for other Gulf states. But it faces increasing internal political strife. Although an Islamic monarchy, Kuwait has the Gulf’s oldest elected parliament, most free media,…
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East Asia

Seoul to purchase 4 Global Hawks from US

Korea will purchase four Global Hawk surveillance drones from the United States in a step toward taking the lead role in intelligence gathering here by 2015, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said Monday. The deal for the RQ-4 Global Hawk, an unmanned aerial vehicle, will be $1.2 billion…
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Unwed mothers call for Park’s attention

Kim Jung-in (an alias), a public relations officer, knew it would be difficult to raise her one-month-old daughter alone. But determined to try, she ignored family members who pressured her to opt for adoption, just as they had told her to have an abortion. “I was confident I could get…
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East Asia

Sunrise festivals in Korea

With the clock ticking toward 2013, meaning it will be 888 years before digital clocks can display consecutive date numbers in month, day and year order (01/01/01 etc.) many are making the most of Korea’s many sunrise festivals to be held on New Year’s Eve at selected eastern costal locations.…
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East Asia

CNBLUE’s ‘Robot’ ranks No. 2 in Oricon chart

Four-member band CNBlue has climbed to the No. 2 position on the Japanese Oricon Charts with their latest single as of Tuesday. The band’s FNC Entertainment said Tuesday that the single titled “Robot” from their latest EP scaled the charts after selling 24,000 on the day of its release on…
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East Asia

Joseon’s maps used as means of control

Exhibit shows cartographic history of last kingdom In Park Bum-shin’s novel “Gosanja (Man of the Mountain),” Kim Jeong-ho, a cartographer and geographer of the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910), struggles to make accurate maps despite opposition from the aristocracy. It portrays the cartographer’s difficulties in delivering the exact topographic information as the…
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East Asia

Carriers launch new Kakao challenger

Domestic mobile carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus will jointly launch their much-anticipated “Joyn” communication platform service today. The service is a joint project of mobile operators associated with the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) to share a common platform available across the world. It is what…
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