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East Asia
In Search of Korean values
Michael Breen – The Korea Times In its research last year to develop the new national brand ― Creative Korea ― the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism came up with three key national values: creativity, passion and harmony. But are these really the core values of Korea? Harmony could…
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East Asia
THAAD and Korea’s Cold War lessons
Arthur I. Cyr – The Korea Times Sustained North Korea threats, and nuclear weapon and missile tests, have led the Obama administration and President Park Geun-hye’s government of South Korea to agree to deploy the Lockheed Martin THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Air Defense) anti-missile system. Beijing is reacting with consternation,…
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Central Asia
ISIS threatens to attack Russia in a new video
In a new propaganda video, the terrorist group ISIS has threatened to carry out attacks in Russia by addressing the Russian president Vladimir Putin. “Listen Putin, we will come to Russia and will kill you at your homes,” a masked man driving a car in the desert yelled in a…
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East Asia
The Female Mayors of Asian Countries
Virginia Raggi has been selected as Rome’s first female mayor. Raggi, a lawyer with a three-year stint as a city councilwoman, took 67.2% of the vote and she promised to work to bring “legality and transparency” to Rome’s City Hall. According to researches, currently, fewer than 5% of the world’s…
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Central Asia
Moscow, Ankara discuss construction of two lines of Turkish Stream
Russia and Turkey are discussing the construction of two lines of the pipeline Turkish Stream, one of which is to supply gas to Europe, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV channel on July 29, TASS reports. “Overall, we are currently talking about the construction of two lines. The second…
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Central Asia
Turkey loses $209 mln 2016 due to food embargo
Turkey lost $209 mln in the Q1 of 2016 due to the Russian food embargo on imports of certain food items imports to the country, Russia’s Economic Development Ministry said in its report for January – June 2016, TASS reports. “Import of goods prohibited from January 1, 2016, to enter…
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Central Asia
Russia to supply BTR-80 armored personnel carriers for UN peacekeepers
Russia’s Military Industrial Company (MIC) will supply overseas a batch of the BTR-80 armored personnel carriers for the UN peacekeepers, the company spokesman Sergei Suvorov told TASS on July 28. “The UN peacekeepers have ordered a batch of the BTR-80 APCs”, Suvorov said, TASS reports. The official did not specify…
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West Asia
Azerbaijan allocates $850M for refinery construction in Turkey
Azerbaijani State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) has allocated $844 million as of July 1, 2016, as part of the country’s financing the project of construction of a new oil refinery of Azerbaijan’s SOCAR in Turkey, SOFAZ told Trend. In accordance with the decree of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on additional measures…
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Central Asia
Russian anti-aircraft gunners hold firing drills in Russia, Tajikistan
More than 3,000 anti-aircraft gunners of Russia’s Central Military District are involved in a field exercise of the air defense troops that takes place simultaneously at ranges in the Astrakhan, Orenburg and Chelyabinsk regions of Russia, as well as in Tajikistan, the district’s press service reported on July 27, TASS…
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Central Asia
Russian troops carry out electronic launches of Iskander-M missiles
Missile troops of the Eastern Military District from the Primorsky Territory, Russia’s Far East, have carried out the first electronic launches from the Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile systems in a tactical exercise at the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region, southern Russia, the Eastern Military District spokesman Colonel Alexander…
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