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East Asia
Gutenberg’s invention of metal movable type from Korea?
The Development of a Piece of Faction – <Gutenberg’s Joseon> Park Hyun-chan / Writer, CEO of StoryLogic What incident in the last thousand years impacted humanity the most? It depends, but the U.S. magazine <Life> selected the invention of metal movable type as the most influential incident of the history…
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Society
Women’s access to managerial positions in Morocco
Understanding the structural impediments Genuine and steady progress is partially constrained by the persistence of important structural impediments Morocco enjoys currently quite advanced legal framework regarding women rights. Not only the country has ratified the main United Nations conventions related to the protection and the promotion of women rights, but…
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West Asia
[AJA Global Report] Growing Distrust Between Poland and Russia
Growing Distrust Between Poland and Russia The Ukraine Crisis, Russian ban on Polish pork, energy and military security are just few conflict points in the Poland-Russia bilateral relations. Having its roots deep in both countries history, the growth of distrust between two countries and its societies seems to be unstoppable…
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Business
[AJA Global Report] Algeria’s economy and the gap between resources and achievements
Algeria is the largest country in Africa in terms of surface area, the tenth in the world. It has the third largest oil reserves in Africa after Nigeria and Libya, where its proven oil reserves is estimated at 12.2 billion barrels. It also has the second largest reserves of natural…
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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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Politics
[AJA Global Report] France’s burqa ban upheld by human rights court
Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) have upheld France’s burqa ban, agreeing with Paris’ argument that it encouraged citizens to “live together.” On July 13, 2010, France approved a bill outlawing the wearing of “clothing intended to hide the face” in public spaces and offenders can be…
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East Asia
Young Korean monochrome painter to make debut in France
The 26-year-old young artist Hwang Young-soo was selected to participate in two major invitational art exhibitions later this year in France. Hwang will participate in the Salon des Indépendants at the Grand Palais and the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts at the Carrousel du Louvre in November and December respectively.…
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Culture
[AJA Global Report] R16 KOREA, How Dynamic it is!
R16 Korea, an annual international urban culture festival, was held in Seoul, South Korea, with the final break-dance crew tournament taking place on Sunday, 6 July at Jamsil Olympic Park. The crews, being judged by significant international break-dance figures, were competing in two categories: performance, and battle. The first prize…
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People
2014 Manhae Grand Prize Awardees Determined
Ashraf Dali, the president of the Asia Journalist Association (AJA) Middle East chapter was determined as one of the awardees of the Manhae Grand Prize 2014 in the field of arts and literature. The judging committee for the Manhae Grand Prize met in June 30th to select not only Ashraf…
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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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