East Asia

Thai workers at flood-hit Japan firms get entry visas

The Japanese Embassy in Bangkok issued visas Tuesday to seven Thai employees of the local unit of a Japanese manufacturer as the first group allowed to work temporarily in Japan under a special arrang

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 (The Japan Times)

10th Seoul International Financial Forum Kicks Off

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 (Chosun)

A thee-way waltz in Honolulu

United States President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev were on first name terms at the weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Honolulu, even though nothing par

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 (Asia Times Online)

Indonesia's striking miners fight for a bigger slice of pie

(KUALA KENCANA, Indonesia) After more than a decade of hard work and long hours driving a truck through the mountains of Indonesia's remote Papua province for US mining giant Freeport McMoRan, Nus Mag

Sunday, November 13, 2011 (Business Times Singapore)

ACCA to advise on new post-grad degree

PLANS to overhaul Singapore's accountancy sector took a significant step forward recently when a consultant was appointed to help develop a homegrown, internationally recognised post-graduate prof

Sunday, November 06, 2011 (Business Times Singapore)

Crime, not war, the bigger killer

More people die in weapons-related crimes than in war, according to the 2011 Global Burden of Armed Violence report from the Geneva Declaration Initiative. According to the report, 526,000 people die

Saturday, November 05, 2011 (The Japan Times)

Deadly fog on the Mekong

Even before all the bodies were found, a fog of disinformation descended on the massacre of 13 Chinese barge crew on the Mekong River that has thrust the lawless Golden Triangle border into brutal rel

Saturday, November 05, 2011 (Asia Times Online)

10th Seoul International Financial Forum Kicks Off

Friday, November 04, 2011 (Chosun)

Sinking deeper and deeper

MALAYSIA should take heed of the problems - the public anger, the social unrest - posed by the solutions offered to tackle rising sovereign debt in Europe. God forbid that we head that way!

Sunday, October 30, 2011 (Business Times Singapore)

Mr. Noda lays out tasks

In his policy speech Friday, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda listed three big issues Japan now faces — reconstructing the areas devastated by the March 11 quake and tsunami, bringing the Fukushima

Friday, October 28, 2011 (The Japan Times)

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