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East Asia
International Conference discuss Korea in Eurasian Civilization
“In the fast changing global order, research on peace initiatives and happiness is important for Eurasia,” says Northeast Asian History Foundation (NAHF) President Kim Hak-jun (Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Asia Journalist Association) at a conference entitled ‘Eurasian Civilization and the Silk Road” held at the Seoul…
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East Asia
Kalilah wa-Dimnah: Ancient Asian Folk Tales with Modern Insight
I was almost 13 years when I read some of Kalilah wa-Dimnah’s fables for the first time. Touched by the animal characters in those folk tales, I used to find an equal personification of those animals in real life. For my surprise, I learnt many years later, that the author…
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East Asia
International Conference on Interfaith Dialogue
Introduction Asia Journalist Association Nepal (AJA Nepal) is a media organization established by a group of professional journalists and media activists in Nepal fully dedicated to press freedom, democracy and human rights. The key members of the organization have a history of involvements in press freedom and democratic movements and…
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East Asia
[Transnational] Witnesses of the Incheon Asian Games
Returning to the Forgotten values of sports Maria Mejia·Colombia·Graduate student of Global Sport Management at SNU The 17th edition of the Asian Games represented for Korea not only the third opportunity to host the games, but also set questions within the sport world towards the readiness of a city to…
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East Asia
SINGAPORE ART FAIR SET TO KICK OFF THIS WEEK
Salsali Private Museum (UAE), XVA Gallery (UAE), Ward Gallery (Dubai, Cairo, & KSA) and Lahd Gallery (UK & USA) participate from the GCC region For its first edition, SINGAPORE ART FAIR presents the best of ME.NA.SA. artistic creations and confirms the participation of 59 top-leading galleries featuring more than 230…
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Central Asia
[AJA Global Report] Russian become easily travel to Korea by Visa-free entry
Russia and Korea getting closer Korea became closer to Russian from this year – visa-free entry allows a great number of people easily travel between these countries. Russians were free to visit Jeju island before, but now they could travel all over South Korea and Koreans, in turn, could visit…
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Central Asia
[AJA TALK] Summer Festivals around the World
There is a great advantage being a global reporter, that is meeting people from all over the globe and understanding more about their cultures. The amount of information one accumulates when interacting with people outside their national boundaries is tremendous and AJA TALK creates the perfect opportunity for this. The…
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East Asia
[AJA Global Report] Russia and Korea: 150 years together
This year 130 years turned since establishing diplomatic relations between Russia and Korea and 150 years – since voluntary settlement of Korean to Russia. Russia is multinational country (more than 200 nations are living together), but even though contribution of “Koryo saram” (self-designation of Russian Koreans) is remarkable; they won…
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East Asia
[Asia Round-up] Life without Google: search engine alternatives
Google processes 100bn search requests a month, or about 3.3bn per day. It’s become such a dominant force in web search that its name has become a verb: people don’t “look up something online,” they “google it.” But there are other commercial alternatives out there, even beyond Yahoo and Microsoft’s…
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South Asia
Stoning a woman to death
Pakistan’s The Nation on Wednesday posted an editorial concerning basic human rights of a woman to marry a man whom she loves. Stoning to death in a broad daylight of a daughter by her own father and brothers itself is shocking. More shocking is that not one of passers-by at…
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