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East Asia
S. Korea approves budget to build hiking trails in DMZ North Korea
South Korea on Wednesday approved a budget necessary to build hiking trails inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, a project to turn the Cold War relic into a symbol of peace. The unification ministry’s Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Council, composed of government and civilian experts, approved 4.4…
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VR theme parks emerge as new urban entertainment trend
If you think virtual reality (VR) games are only for tech geeks who like cool gadgets and are attracted to giving free rein to their imaginations inside head-mounted displays (HMD), that’s not the case anymore. VR games have been in the spotlight as one of the hottest entertainment trends in…
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East Asia
S. Korea sets 5-year technology development goal
South Korea’s government on Tuesday announced the blueprint for the country’s research and development (R&D) project that will run through 2023. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it has picked 100 key development projects that reflect the latest social and technological trends that will mainly focus on convenient…
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East Asia
Moon calls for efforts to attract foreign tourists amid chronic deficit
President Moon Jae-in called for efforts to attract more foreign tourists to his country Tuesday to help offset the country’s chronic deficit in tourism. In a special meeting held in Songdo near Incheon International Airport, the president stressed a need to develop new appealing reasons for tourists to visit the…
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Korean language boom heats up in Thailand
The fever for learning Korean is steadily spreading among Thai students, as the number of secondary schools teaching Korean as a second foreign language in Thailand is expected to swell to 130 this year, officials said Tuesday. The Korean Education Center in Thailand said as many as 130 middle and…
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China’s soaring demand for fruit benefits foreign fruit farmers
The volume of avocados being imported has grown by nearly ten thousand times in just a few years in China, while pricey imported cherries are jokingly regarded as a new criterion for a person’s financial status by Chinese netizens. Moreover, some Chinese people are even flying to Thailand or Malaysia…
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Italy hails BRI MOU, expects tangible results
Italian scholars, government organizations and business community applauded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly advance the construction of the Belt and Road signed during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the country. Xi’s state visit to Italy culminated on March 23 with the signing of the inter-governmental MOU.…
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East Asia
Italy return 796 cultural relics back to China
It seems that China and Italy, two countries with the largest number of world heritage sites, are constantly holding cultural exchange activities. Witnessed by visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities of Italy and the Minister of Culture and…
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Italy, Monaco, and France see deeper cooperation with China
The ongoing three-nation visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, his first overseas visit in 2019, will bring new momentum to China-Europe relations. As the world’s largest developing country and the largest national union, China and the European Union (EU) are important forces in the international community to boost economic development…
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East Asia
Charles-Edouard Bouée: China has entered a new era of opening-up under new Foreign Investment Law
The 2019 China Development Forum (CDF) initiated by the Development Research Center of The State Council kicked off on March 23 in Beijing, under the theme of “Greater Opening-up for Win-Win Cooperation”. People’s Daily Online held an exclusive interview with Charles-Édouard Bouée, global CEO of international consulting firm Roland Berger…
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