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East Asia
Caucasus countries ranked as cheapest places to live
Three major countries in the Caucasus region, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia are ranked the cheapest countries to live. Time.com released statistics about 50 cheapest countries to live in the world by comparing their life standards. Azerbaijan is 23rd, Georgia is 29th and Armenia is ranked 42nd among these countries. Main…
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South East Asia
India considers accession to Eurasian Economic Union, Kazakh ambassador says
Kazakhstan and India will increase bilateral trade turnover up to $5 billion during the next 2-3 years, The Times of Central Asia reported citing Yerzhan Shaikenov, co-chairman of the Kazakhstan-India Business Council. “We hope that the Business Council will help increase mutual trade and investments. I expect that in two-three…
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East Asia
Goods to be delivered from India to Europe within 14 days
With the railway corridor connecting India to Europe, we will soon be able to deliver goods along this route in no more than 14 days, chairman of Azerbaijan Railways, Javid Gurbanov said in his interview with The Business Year. He talked about the International Trans-Caspian route from China to Baku…
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South East Asia
AJA Clip: Indonesian President Jokowi wins AJA Award 2016
Asia Journalist Association (AJA) held “AJA Award” and a dialogue program with President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) under the title of “Game-Changing Revolution with Young People” on May 17.
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East Asia
President of Indonesia Joko Widodo wins AJA Award
Asia Journalist Association (AJA) held “AJA Award” and a dialogue program with President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) under the title of “Game-Changing Revolution with Young People” on May 17. AJA and Ajou University co-hosted the dialogue program. The total of more than 500 audiences participated, including Governor of Gyeonggi Province Nam…
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East Asia
Russian export to ASEAN market will rise to 10% by 2020
Pyotr Fradkov, Chief Executive Officer of the Russian Export Center said that the center forecasts Russian export to ASEAN countries will grow from 1.5% to 10% by 2020. “Now we have 1.5% on the market but I believe 10% will be a decent share. It’s fairly achievable by 2020,” he…
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South East Asia
Russia and India to hold war games
The joint Russian-Indian war games Indra’2016 will be held in the second half of 2016. Far-Eastern Primorsky (Maritime) territory of Russia, Alexander Gordeyev, the chief press officer of the Eastern Military District told TASS agency after a conference on preparations for the exercise. He said, “Representatives of the Eastern Military…
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South East Asia
Samsung Fulfilled its Promises
SAMSUNG, the largest phone maker in South Korea, is also the third largest in the world. This impressed me and other journalists from 50 countries, when we visited one of its Research and Development (R&D) Centres in 2009. A high ranking official at the press briefing then said, Samsung would…
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Islamic Organisation for Food Security established in Kazakhstan
Member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) established the Islamic Organisation for Food Security on 28 April in Kazakhstan. The new initiative has been created after the 7th Islamic Ministerial Conference on Food Security and Agricultural Development of the OIC in Astana. Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, Assylzhan…
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Russia and China to Increase Military Exercises
Russia and China announced the increase of joint military exercises in 2016. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu met with Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan on April 27. The talks were held at the 5th Moscow International Security Conference, TASS reports. Shoigu said: “We highly appreciate a high level of Russian-Chinese…
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