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Culture
Happy Sindhi Sarangi Day
By Nasir Aijaz Asia N Representative Sindh Priovince: Sindhi communities around the world are celebrating today – June 27, as the Sindhi Sarangi Day for revival and promotion of ancient Sindhi musical instrument. Rajesh Kumar Parasramani, a renowned Sarangi Player based in Bilaspur India, who pioneered Sindhu Gharana and developed his…
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GCS International successfully holds virtual meetings
By Seok-Jae Kang GCS International Secretary-General Vice President of the Asian Journalists Association SEOUL: GCS International held virtual meetings with its national chapters on June 22, drawing a total of 84 representatives from 57 countries. Dr. Chungwon Choue, president of GCS International, hosted a virtual meeting with 33 leaders from…
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Culture
2021 DMZ Peace Festival held successfully in Paju, Korea
By Seok-Jae Kang GCS International Secretary-General Vice President of the Asian Journalists Association SEOUL: The 2021 DMZ Peace Festival was held successfully in Paju, Korea, on June 20, 2021. The 2021 DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) Peace Festival, the third of its kind, was jointly promoted by GCS International, a Seoul-based UN-affiliated…
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Culture
2021 PIPFF Changes novel ‘Munyeodo’ to Musical Animation in 85 years
By Min Da-hye SEOUL: The 3rd Pyeong Chang International Peace Film Festival (PIPFF) raised its curtain on June 17, starting its journey for six days. The film shown at the opening-day ceremony was ‘Munyeodo,’ recreated by a Korean animation director Ahn Jae-hoon. In spite of the cloudy weather, all of…
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Business
Pakistan: Thar Desert transforming into oasis
By Nasir AijazAsia N RepresentativeSINDH PROVINCE: Pakistan’s Thar Desert in Sindh province, bordering India, is transforming into oasis, as with start of coalmining since a decade, a new wetland has emerged because of brackish water oozing out of the open pit coalmine at 180 meters depth.The brackish water has not…
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Business
Chungcheongnam-do, one of the richest provinces in South Korea
By Dr. Hassan Hamida Kiel, Germany CHUNGCHEONGNAM-DO: During the Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula, the Chungcheongnam-do was known as “Chusei-nan” Province and since 1910. The name has changed when it became from after one of the eight provinces of South Korea, and this immediately after the division of the…
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Business
Tough curbs in Singapore as leap In Covid-19 cases raises concern
By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: Singapore is scrambling to check the proliferation of a more virulent Coronavirus in the community by a slew of tough restrictions that come close to a previous lockdown Kicking in on May 16, and to last till June 13, social…
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Business
Breakthrough: Dubai to host first in-person travel & tourism event in the world since pandemic onset
DUBAI: Dubai will host the largest in-person travel & tourism event in the world since the onset of the pandemic last year, Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2021 has said. .Now in its 28th year, ATM 2021 will go-ahead at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) on May 16-19 as…
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Culture
South Korean Youn Yuh-jung of ‘Minari’ wins best supporting actress Oscar
SEOUL: Youn Yuh-jung has won best supporting actress at this year’s Academy Awards for her performance in the immigrant film “Minari,” becoming the first South Korean to win an acting Oscar. At the awards ceremony held at Union Station in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday (U.S. time), Youn was awarded…
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Entertainment
GCS International holds extraordinary board meeting, discusses upcoming major events
By Seok-Jae Kang GCS International Secretary-General Vice President of the Asian Journalists Association SEOUL: GCS International held its extraordinary Board of Directors meeting at the conference room of the GCS headquarters in Seoul, Korea on April 23. At the extraordinary board meeting, held in a hybrid on- and off-line…
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