• East Asia

    Halal food displayed at China-Arab Expo helps China explore market

    Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is showing its ambition ahead of Sunday’s China-Arab States Expo, to build itself into a global halal food center. The government of Wuzhong City, the home of Islamic Hui ethnic group, is building a halal industrial park to integrate research, design, manufacture, processing and trade…

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    Ashraf Dali talks Korean trip on TV

    Ashraf Aboul-Yazid(Dali), President of the Asia Journalist Association Middle East Chapter and Editor-in-Chief of The AsiaN, was interviewed live in two Egyptian TV programs on September 23. During those programs, he talked about the activities in the recent visits to S. Korea and Tatarstan along with his new books published…

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  • East Asia

    China willing to make efforts on advancing Iran’s nuclear talks, Xi says

    China is willing to make constructive efforts on advancing the Iranian nuclear talks, Chinese  President Xi Jinping said here on Thursday while meeting with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. Xi said China believes that Iran’s legitimate rights should be respected, and China upholds the principle of resolving the issue through dialogue and negotiation.…

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    South China explosion kills 2, injures 44

    Two people were killed and 44 injured Monday in an explosion near a school in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. A man and a woman were killed in the blast, and 39 are hospitalized for treatment, police with Guilin City said. The injured mainly suffered burns and skin lacerations,…

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  • East Asia

    Chinese, Uzbek presidents hold talks on boosting ties

    Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov held talks here Monday on further development of bilateral relations and cooperation. Xi is in Tashkent for a state visit as a guest of Karimov, who went to the airport to receive the Chinese president on Sunday evening. “I…

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  • East Asia

    G20 leaders adopt St. Petersburg development strategy

    The Group of Twenty (G20) leaders on Thursday approved here a strategy outlining development priorities for the group members over the medium term. The St. Petersburg Development Strategy, prepared by the development working panel of G20, detailed such priorities as reinforcing G20’s commitment to shared growth and improving the group’s…

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  • East Asia

    Former NBA star Dennis Rodman visits North Korea to meet Kim Jung Un

     Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is in North Korea with plans to hang out with authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un, have a good time and maybe bridge some cultural gaps – but not be a diplomat. Rodman was greeted at Pyongyang’s airport Tuesday by Son Kwang Ho, vice-chairman of North…

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  • East Asia

    Tornados hit eastern Japanese cities injuring people, damaging buildings

    Tornados hit cities in east part of Japan Monday afternoon, injuring dozens of people and damaging building, according to local media. In Koshigaya city in the Saitama prefecture, local police said that they confirmed six buildings were completely destroyed and about 80 were badly damaged, reported Japan’s Kyodo News.  Around…

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    ‘Hallyu’ wave on Egyptian shores

    Guys singing Korean songs in the street, girls tuning in to Korean dramas on TV every day, and people just making plans to go work in Korea, and maybe even live there, all of these aspects affecting the world, including Egypt, is what’s called the Hallyu or Korean wave. Korean…

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  • Sweden-North Korea friendship at a great cost

    Sweden was the first Western country to create close trade relations with North Korea –but was utterly duped. To this day, North Korea owes Sweden about half a billion US dollars for transactions completed in the 70s and subsequent interest for non-paid purchases. Below is an article about what the…

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