• East Asia

    Traitor Trump?

    By Donald Kirk – The Korea Times Donald Trump should be thankful the Republican convention in Cleveland that nominated him for the presidency was held the week before Hillary Clinton’s shining moments at the Democratic conflab in Philadelphia. Just think what the fallout would have been if the Muslim parents…

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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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  • 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

    Russia restarts talks on economic cooperation program with Turkey

    Russia will restart talks on the draft trade and economic cooperation program with Turkey for 2016-2019, the Russian Government said in the decree on trade and economic relations with Turkey, posted on the Cabinet’s website on July 22, TASS reports. “In accordance with introduced amendments the mixed intergovernmental commission on…

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  • Politics

    “Brexit” England-France and China-Japan’s Bad Blood

    Kim Kook-hyun – Director, Policy Planning Bureau of MND of Republic of Korea At the British Museum in London one can find the Rosetta Stone with Egyptian hieroglyphics on it. Taken by the British military in 1801 with the British defeat of Napoleon’s forces, the Rosetta stone forms the basis…

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  • South East Asia

    Brexit: Less impact to Malaysian traders in short term

    The Brexit or the British exit from the European Union (EU) in a historic referendum on 23 June 2016 has affected the money market (shares, bonds, debentures, derivatives) goods and services, property market/assets and labour market. The market shocks in the United Kingdom (UK) begin in the money market and…

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  • Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia presidents to discuss north-south corridor

    Presidents of Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia are scheduled to discuss the completion of north-south corridor in an upcoming tripartite meeting, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said on July 12. He made the remarks in a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, IRNA reports. Mammadyarov said that the north-south corridor…

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  • Central Asia

    Airlines Cash in on Russia’s Turkey Tourism Revival

    The price of airplane tickets from Moscow to the Turkish resort of Antalya have risen by 75.6 percent in the last week as companies cash in on a surge of Russian holidaymakers visiting the country, The Moscow Times reports. Data from the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) also…

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  • West Asia

    New gold reserves discovered in Iran

    Recent explorations have led to identification of new reserves of gold at Iran’s Zarshouran gold mine, Mohammad Reza Ahmadi, manager of Zarshouran Gold Complex, said. He said that the explorations indicate that the mine contains 108 tons of gold with purity of four grams per ton, Ahmadi said, ISNA news…

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