• East Asia

    Samsung Electronics surpasses W2 mil.

    Samsung Electronics stocks touched 2 million won Thursday, soaring to a record high. It is the first time the electronics giant which debuted on the stock market in 1975 surpassed 2 million won. The world’s leading tech company started trading at 1.97 million won in the morning session, reaching 2…

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  • Politics

    Russia’s Kalashnikov to create 1700 jobs in 2017

    Russia’s famed small arms maker Kalashnikov Concern will increase its staff by at least 30% by creating 1700 new jobs in 2017 amid the surge in export orders, the company’s press service said. “The Kalashnikov Concern will create 1700 new jobs this year and thus will increase its core staff…

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  • East Asia

    The Uses of the Space Energy

    Last July, as 1,300 corporations of the 21 APEC member states came together at the APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Technology Conference and Fair (APEC-SMETC), Korea Space Energy Co. Ltd was selected as 2016 APEC Best Practices in SME Innovation for its Space Energy Implosion Radiation Generator. This adaptive radiation…

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  • IT-Science

    Slaves of smartphone

    Park Moo Jong – The Korea Times It’s been 10 years since the late Steve Jobs (1955-2011) introduced the sensational iPhone, namely smartphone, in June 2007 to help change the daily life of the mankind from then on. The device is absolutely one of the most important daily necessities in this…

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  • East Asia

    China to launch 1st earthquake monitoring satellite

    A Chinese-made electromagnetic test satellite will be launched in the second half of 2017 to monitor earthquakes. It will be the first satellite of its kind for China. The satellite has a life span of five years, monitoring quakes of magnitude six or above that hit China, and quakes of…

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  • Central Asia

    Largest solar power plant launches operations in Mongolia

    As reported by the Energy Regulatory Committee, the largest solar power plant in the country (located in Darkhan) has started a trial run and has begun supplying electricity to the city’s main electricity grid. The ten-megawatt power station was built in Darkhan by Solar Power International, in cooperation with the…

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  • IT-Science

    The Era of Wars Through the Internet

    Cyberage is turning into a monster of our own making. How it will reverberate is any body’s guess, going by various developments that are taking place around the world. That the internet would be the savannah for development and governance was the big hope we had. The chances that it…

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  • South Asia

    Completion of Hoshab-Sorab highway a milestone for Pakistan

    Nazir Siyal – Gwadar/Turbat Director General Frontier Works Organization (FWO) Lieutenant General Muhammed Afzal highlighted that it was another landmark in the history of Pakistan that under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) objectives they have completed major portions of road communication in Baluchistan to connect western route via different national arteries…

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  • IT-Science

    Google, Naver in all-out war for accurate translation service

    Lee Min-hyung / The Korea Times With artificial intelligence (AI) taking the technology world by storm, global IT firms are identifying intelligent translation services as their next key growth area. The paradigm shift in translation comes as conventional statistical machine translation (SMT) has so far failed to generate satisfactory outcomes, due…

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  • Central Asia

    What comes next after mining?

    Chintushig Boldsukh – The UB Post Ever since the 2001 discovery of the Oyu Tolgoi mine by Ivanhoe Mines, there has been an equal amount of optimism and cautionary sentiment regarding the use of the resource model to develop the economy. While many have recognized the potential that a thriving…

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