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[Asia Round-up] Death of draftee highlights problems in Taiwan’s military
Editor’s note: Followings are summaries of editorials from major Asian media on current issues. Death of draftee highlights problems in Taiwan’s military [Taiwan, The China Post, 12-07-2013] The recent death of Hung Chung-chiu, a corporal in the Taiwanese army who died during solitary confinement three days before he was set…
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South Asia
Pre-Ashokan Buddhist monuments discovered In Lumbini
Unearthed Pre-Ashokan Buddhist Structures Pushed The History Lumbini By 1000 Years Kathmandu: New excavations in Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, have unearthed ruins of a pre-Ashokan Buddhist temple of brick and a village suggesting that Buddhist activities in the area were in full swing 1,000 years before Emperor Ashoka…
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Bangladesh to build Padma Bridge with own resources
As the biggest global lender, the World Bank (WB), has backed out from the supporting Bangladesh’s largest infrastructure development project, the Bangladesh government has decided to construct the country’s biggest rail-road bridge over the mighty Padma river with its own resources. The tender for construction of the 6.15 kilometer long…
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East Asia
Leadership changes and the future of East Asia
What will East Asia look like in 5-10 years’ time after the recent changes in leadership of some major countries? What are the emerging economic and political orders? Obviously, we don’t know, but we can try to make informed guesses on how the world might change and how Asia might…
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East Asia
National pride raised at Indonesian students conference held in Daejeon
The 6th Conference of the Indonesian Students Association in Korea: ‘Empowering National Pride with Knowledge Collaboration’ On July 7th, 2013, with the support of our partners and the enthusiasm of Indonesian scholars, the Indonesian Students Association in Korea (PERPIKA) successfully held CISAK 2013 at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and…
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West Asia
Scrutinizing architectural elements of mosques
Editor’s note: On July 9 this year, hundreds of millions of Muslims are celebrating the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. For this occasion, Dr. Khalid Azab, an Egyptian writer who works as a media director at Alexandria Bibliotheca, Egypt tells about the architectural elements of mosques. Teachings of the Prophet…
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West Asia
Egypt: The tale of two revolutions
For most Egyptians, the past year was just a nightmare, and the worst, compared with any bad ruling authorities in the history of Egypt. The country was under occupation of the Muslim Brotherhood ruling, embodied by the ousted Ex-President Mohammed Morsi Al-Ayat, who acted, for a year as a dictator…
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East Asia
[Asia Round-up] In danger of being a nation run by thieves
Editor’s note: Followings are summaries of editorials from major Asian media on current issues. Positive reinforcement more effective than physical punishment [Nepal, The Kathmandu Post, 05-07-2013] Recently, in a private school in Hirminiya, Banke of mid-western Nepal, a teacher hurled a textbook at eight-year-old Ajaya Dhobi for not finishing his…
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East Asia
How social exchanges can help solve North Korea problem
North Korea is not an ordinary country. It is a major problem for the international community that has been remarkably resistant to solutions over the last two decades. Since the early 1990s, when the North Korean nuclear problem first emerged, the US and, more broadly, the international community has oscillated…
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West Asia
The Quest for Arab Knowledge Cities
Humanity’s awareness of science and the world changed as ages changed. Scientists have been describing ages according to the major innovation that occurred in it: the printing age, the machine age, the Industrial Revolution age, the technology age, the computer decade, the atom age, the Internet age, up to the…
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