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East Asia
Street Photography and Streetstyle with Michael Hurt
Wondering what are the trends on the streets of Seoul now? Where some of the trends come from? As well as the person who captures the real essence of street photos here in Seoul? I conducted an interview with Michael Hurt, who is a street photographer and professor living in…
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East Asia
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East Asia
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Society
-Bill Hill and the A-Maize-ing School Bus
Yoon Seok-Hee – The AsiaN Correspondent Instead of taking a plane like I did in November, I decided to take a bus to Standing Rock. I found a bus through a Facebook rideshare page departing from the Bronx on the 1st of December. The driver and owner Bill Hill, was…
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East Asia
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East Asia
Jackie Chan: ‘The days when no one listened to Chinese people have gone’
On Nov. 12, Jackie Chan received an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, becoming the first Chinese actor to win the award. The 62-year-old movie star shared his story in an interview with People’s Daily. When he was 22, Jackie Chan went…
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East Asia
Major Sightseeing Places of Tokyo
Tokyo is an important capital of Asia with its traditional and modern faces. There are a lot of places to visit in a short time visit of tourists. If we look at both historical and modern places, I can recommend that districts to visit: Asakusa: It is the north-eastern part…
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Society
The New World Literary Voice from Nigeria
Interviewed by: Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Dali) Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a Nigerian writer and journalist. He is the author of the novel Season of Crimson Blossoms (published by Cassava Republic Press, London in 2016 and Parresia Publishers, Lagos, 2015), which recent won the Nigeria Prize for Literature, one of the richest…
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East Asia
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East Asia
Kim Yu-na may be another scandal victim
Suspicion is rising that the government disadvantaged Olympic champion figure skater Kim Yu-na because she would not cooperate with the scandal-ridden manipulative ties of President Park Geun-hye. KBS TV reported Saturday that Kim had been on Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism blacklist for turning down a ministry invitation to…
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