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East Asia
Growing Naypyidaw hosts 25th ASEAN Summit
The 25th ASEAN Summit was held in the Naypyidaw, Myanmar from November 12th to 13th, 2014, which was attended by 10 ASEAN heads of government. The ASEAN Summit, held biannually since the 14th ASEAN Summit in Cha Am, Thailand, was headed by Myanmar for the first time since its ascension…
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West Asia
Foreign Arab envoys ‘back to business’ in Qatar
Ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will be returning to the city-state of Qatar after an 8-month long absence. In an attempt to reconnect with its long standing partners, Qatar has requested some of the senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood to leave the country in September.…
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East Asia
First Beijing IPR court to open in November
A court that specializes in intellectual property rights cases will open in the Chinese capital Beijing in November. The Beijing News reports that on November 2nd, the Standing Committee of the Beijing People’s Congress appointed Su Chi (57), the associate magistrate in one of Beijing’s intermediate courts, to be the…
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East Asia
Korea-Saudi Businesses and Government Discuss Cooperation
1st Korea-Saudi Business Forum, “Saudi: Good Business Environment for Korean Business” “Saudi Arabia is an attractive country for investments. Service, manufacturing, R&D among other industries are showing signs of potential for growth.” In the 1st Korea-Saudi Business Forum held last October 30th in Grand Intercontinental Hotel at Seoul’s Samseong-dong, Abdullatif…
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South Asia
Extremism haunts Pakistan’s Nobel Laureates
Pakistan’s two citizens – Theoretical Physicist Dr. Abdus Salam and a teen-age girl Malala Yousufzai won Nobel Prize, one in 1979 and the other after 35 years in 2014, but despite being the symbol of honor for their country, they faced the same unfortunate situation of being away from motherland…
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East Asia
Pyongyang, from “Revolutionary Capital” to “Carnal City”
By Joel Lee Neon-lit, high-rise apartments smack in the middle of the city center. Light-industrial factories inside apartment complexes. A chessboard of a vast, empty square in downtown. Urban greenery of grass and park. Murals of blue and red resembling a fighting scene of a cartoon. These rare images, only…
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East Asia
South Korean broadcasting company chair nomination reveals cronyism history
By Joel Lee The nomination of a conservative South Korean politician as the head of a public broadcast-advertising company is causing a deep-seated uproar among critics who see it as yet another government-orchestrated scheme to rein in on media control. Kwak Sung-moon, 61, a former National Assembly and Saenuri Party…
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East Asia
North Korea’s failing diplomacy in Europe, Russia and Japan
By Andrei Lankov Kang Sok-ju, Korean Workers’ Party secretary for international issues, has departed for a trip to a number of European countries. He visits Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Germany where he meets local politicians from assorted political parties. There is little doubt that the expected visit of a high…
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Politics
[AJA Global Report] Algeria’s relations with China and South Korea
Over the past decade Algeria received growing interests by many Asian countries and its relations with China are hot topics of discussion for scholars and journalists. The Algeria-Korea relation will be the topic of this discussion in this article. This article aims to analyze the growing interest of East Asian…
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East Asia
How to solve the divided families between South and North Korea?
According to official statistics produced by the Ministry of Unification, as of 30th June 2014 there were 129,553 South Koreans registered as ‘members of divided families’. This is an official status and it means that the registered person is eligible to apply for a family reunion with their relatives in…
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