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East Asia
Psy, Return to Gangnam Style
Every day on our way to my two daughters’ school, I am asked by both of them to play a selection of songs in the car CD player; the Egyptian version of “Gangnam Style” is one of those songs. It is no surprise to have an Egyptian touch of the…
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East Asia
Hyosung, the one that brings the smiles back to Vietnamese citizens ‘Smile Searchers’
Korean Companies for Asia (1) In Dong Nai, a province near Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam, a lot of people that are sick do not receive medical attention. In most cases, a simple cough medicine requires a day’s labor for them or that there is no money to commute going…
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East Asia
AFoCo Celebrates 2nd Anniversary, sharing achievement and vision towards “A Greener Asia”
ASEAN-ROK Forest Cooperation (AFoCo) celebrated its 2nd Anniversary on 20th October 2014 in Seoul, Korea. The AFoCo is a regional cooperation mechanism in forest sector, which was formalized upon the entry into force of the “Agreement between the Governments of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…
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South East Asia
[AJA Global Report] Convergence of Humanity and Technology
The infiltration of technology into modern lifestyles can be viewed from two perspectives; the detractors may opine that it has become too important and we are overly dependent on technology, while those people who have embraced these technological incursions as part and parcel of daily living may view it as…
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South East Asia
[AJA Global Report] Pork Barrel Senators Under Police ‘Custody’
Former Senate President and Senate minority leader Juan Ponce Enrile turned himself in to the Philippine National Police last July 4, 2014 after the Fifth Division of the Sandigan Bayan ordered for his arrest over plunder charges in connection with the P10-billion pork barrel scam. Two weeks before, Senators Ramon…
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East Asia
[Asia Round-up] Life without Google: search engine alternatives
Google processes 100bn search requests a month, or about 3.3bn per day. It’s become such a dominant force in web search that its name has become a verb: people don’t “look up something online,” they “google it.” But there are other commercial alternatives out there, even beyond Yahoo and Microsoft’s…
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South East Asia
Leyte rising- from the shoulders of women
The impact of super-typhoon Haiyan that hit central Philippines last November 2013 was tremendous. More than 10,000 lives were lost, and half a million Filipinos lost their homes, livelihoods and farms. More than 1.1 million students were affected, as their schools were washed out or ravaged by the winds and…
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South East Asia
World Cup Count Down
A woman wearing a self-made hat watches an event for the upcoming World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, June 1, 2014.
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South East Asia
[Transnational] Soccer in Kazakhstan and Bhutan
Kazakhstan aspires for UEFA 2020 Olzhas Talgatuly Besbayev·Kazakhstan·Dream Together Master, SNU Kazakhstan is becoming a new world sports center and a world competitor. Almaty and Kazakhstan have hosted a winter Asian Games and are preparing to host the Winter Universiade 2017 in Almaty. The Kazakhstan Olympic team performs very well…
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South East Asia
Burmese Journalists Call for Thai Junta to Respect Press Freedom
The Myanmar Journalists Networks(MJN) and the Myanmar Journalist Association(MJA) have both issued statements calling for the release of journalists detained in neighboring Thailand following a military coup. In statements issued on Tuesday and Wednesday, both groups said they were concerned about restrictions on media that have followed the May 22…
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