• East Asia

    What Is It UN Can Do For Syria?

    Susan Rice (R, Front), U.S. ambassador to the UN, and Mark Lyall Grant (L, Front), British permanent representative to the UN, vote on the situation in Syria at the United Nations headquarters in New York on July 19, 2012. Russia and China, two permanent members of the UN Security Council,…

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  • West Asia

    Israel: Iran Is behind Suicide Attack In Bulgaria

    A damaged bus is transported out of Burgas airport, Bulgaria, Thursday, July 19, 2012 a day after a deadly suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers. A daytime bombing that killed eight people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide…

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  • South East Asia

    Laos : National land policy the key to solving land disputes

    Major news in <Vientiane Times> : National land policy the key to solving land disputes A national land policy is urgently needed in order to address land disputes which have been considered the top concern in the country for many years, according to land experts on Wednesday. Representatives from government sectors…

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  • South East Asia

    Malaysia : The handphone debate

    Major news in <New Straits Times> : The handphone debate MOBILES IN SCHOOLS: Teachers and parents voice their views on new proposal KUALA LUMPUR: PARENTS and teachers are divided over the Education Ministry’s proposal to allow mobile phones in school, starting next year. The National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP)…

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  • East Asia

    Kim Jong Un Dianugerahi Pangkat Marsekal Korea Utara

    Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Saat ini bermagang untuk Asian Journalist Association. Berita mengenai Korea Utara berikut merupakan salah satu berita yang dapat anda akses di website The AsiaN. Rabu (17/7) lalu, Pemimpin tertinggi Korea Utara, Kim Jong Un, dianugerahi pangkat Marsekal, demikian dilaporkan oleh Korean Central News Agency,…

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  • East Asia

    PyeongChang bashindara bikhhubdho

    Nomoskar,ami Sudhanya Ghosh,Asia Journalist Association,AJA. PyeongChang o Gangwon prodesh jekhane du hazar atharo saaler winter olymipic howar kotha,sei elakar bashindara gotokaal winter Olympic-r ayojok samitir birudhhe bikhhob janaye. ayojok samitir pokhho theke gurottopurno kichu tathyo tader janano hoyeni bole tara bikhhubdho hoye pore.olympic-r suchona o somapti anushthan-r sthan poriborton holeo…

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  • East Asia

    UN Recognizes China For Public Service Campaign

    Renata Lok-Dessallien (C), coordinator of United Nations System in China, presents a manual of the public service announcement titled “2032: The Future We Want” to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a U.N. hosted event to recognize the Chinese people who participated through social media outlets in a global campaign called…

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  • East Asia

    NK Soldiers Celebrate Kim’s Ascension To Marshal

    Officials and soliders of the Korean People’s Army attend a meeting to celebrate that top leader Kim Jong Un was awarded the title of Marshal of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), at the April 25 House of Culture in Pyongyang, DPRK, on July 18, 2012. Top leader Kim…

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  • East Asia

    Centennial Of Emperor Meiji’s Death Remembered

    Shinto priests pray as Japan’s Emperor Akihito, unseen, visits Meiji Shrine where his great-grandfather Emperor Mutsuhito’s spirit is dedicated, in Tokyo Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Akihito visited the Shinto shrine to mark the centennial of Mutsuhito’s death on July 30. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    Japan: TEPCO to be ordered to trim electricity rate hike to 8.47%

    Major news in <Kyodo News>: TEPCO to be ordered to trim electricity rate hike to 8.47% The government decided Thursday to order Tokyo Electric Power Co. to trim its electricity rate hike for households to an average 8.47 percent from the earlier planned 10.28 percent, having determined the utility can…

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