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East Asian community won’t be easy to come
Scholars of South Korea, Japan and China exchange talks under the theme of Building East Asian Community and its Prospects in the second East Asian Community Forum held at the International Studies Hall in Korea University on May 25, 2012. (Photo: Kim Nam-ju) From time to time, another meeting of East Asian leaders produces…
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Historic Indus River Gets Dried Up
Indus River is locally known as Sindhu river. The word ‘Sindhu’ comes from Sanskrit which means river, stream or ocean. Indus River dates back to thousands of years. It holds great historical importance being used for navigation by the likes of Alexander the Great, Muhammad Bin Qasim and Mehmood Ghaznavi…
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Distorted notions of morality
I was surprised to hear of the furor in the Korean media over the recent news that monks of Korea’s revered Buddhist Jogye Order were caught drinking, gambling and smoking and their actions termed as immoral. Were they really so? The point here is that in today’s materialistic world it…
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Anti-racism law
Police have arrested a 17-year-old mixed-race high school dropout on charges of repeated arsons. The youth, born between a Korean father and a Russian mother in 1995, encapsulates the frustration, agony and mental ordeals mixed-racial kids face in pure-blood-boasting Korea. He set fire to three homes in northern Seoul in…
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Bangladesh needs qualified teachers in IT sector
Information and communication technology (ICT) has ushered in a new opportunity for the educated womenfolk inBangladesh. The new technology of the information age has not only created opportunities for the women in job outside, but also helped them earn through outsourcing and freelancing in the IT sector. “The ICT is…
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Getting over Roh
Realize late leader’s goals but in different ways Three years ago yesterday, former President Roh Moo-hyun leapt to his death, taking all controversies and personal frustrations with him. This is not a short period, considering even in the extremely ceremonious Joseon Kingdom, the official mourning period for a deceased monarch…
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East Asia
[China Now] China starts to have interest in comfort women
A Chinese internet media Sohu Cyber (www.sohu.com) reported about an elderly Korean woman living at Kangmiao district, Angui province in central China, for more than 50 years. She was learned to have forcibly brought to China as a comfort woman by Japanese imperial army during the World War II, it said. According to the media, she…
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We deserve better FM
Yes, I am suggesting our present foreign minister be replaced with somebody who takes charge and vitalizes our foreign policy. Of course, it would be only natural to give Kim Sung-hwan a chance to better get on with his job but that appears to be a tall order for the…
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The illogic of China’s North Korea policy
Discussions in Beijing about North Korea are always frustrating. It’s not so much due to the sharp divergence in U.S. and Chinese thinking about how to deal with Pyongyang; the two sides differ on many issues. No, the real problem, from our perspective, is the illogic of the Chinese position.…
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Strike called by ethnic communities goes violent
KATHMANDU — Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), the umbrella organization of Nepal’s journalists, have expressed its serious concerns about the manhandling of the journalists, vandalizing of their vehicles misbehaviors meted out against them on the first and second days of the three-day general strike called by the Nepal Federation of…
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