By David Brown
August 29th, 2013


Internet cafe in Vietnam, EastAsiaforum.

From the flurry of alarms filling space in Western media recently, one could be forgiven for thinking that the Vietnamese government has finally figured out how to suppress the dissident bloggers that torment it. ...

Ser Myo-Ja
JoongAng Daily
May 11,2013


Yoon Chang-jung, fired as Blue House spokesman yesterday after a sexual assault complaint in the U.S., in a file photo from last December. By Kim Hyung-soo

President Park Geun-hye fired spokesman Yoon Chang-jung in the middle of her trip to the United States after he was accused of sexually assaulting an intern from the Korean Embassy in Washington. ...

By Julie Jackson
Korea Herald
April 23, 2012

Journalist Andrew Salmon hosts the new economics and business news program “Bizline” ...

By Economist
April 6th 2013


An ambitious festival of Cambodian arts is about to hit New York. Khway Samnang

ON HIS lightning tour of South-East Asia last year, Barack Obama made a point of criticising Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, for his dismal human-rights record. Cambodians have indeed done horrifying things to each other (see the obituary). But what of America’s own legacy in the country? ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun
February 16, 2013

Fifty percent of Japanese respondents to a recent opinion poll consider Japan-U.S. relations ...

Kang Jin-kyu
JoongAng Daily
Oct 31,2012


A group of Thai tourists pose for a photo at the redwood tree lane on Nami Island, Gangwon in May of this year. The number of foreign visitors in 2012 exceeded the 500,000 mark Sunday, according to Nami Island Inc., a drastic jump from around 30,000 overseas visitors in 2002. Provided by Nami Island Inc.

Nami Island, located in Chuncheon, Gangwon, and widely known as Winter Sonata Island, has emerged as one of the must-visit places among foreign tourists in the country, with a growing number of them visiting the island. ...

By Kim Kyu-won
October 20,2012 11:48 KST


A meeting of the UN Security Coucil

South Korea won a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Oct. 19 for the second time after holding a similar position in 1996. ...

By Patrick Boehler
September 11, 2012


Kong Qingdong stands in front of a painting depicting celebrities and world leaders the Confucius Peace Prize ceremony in Beijing, 2010. DAVID GRAY / REUTERS

Two years ago, as the Norwegian Nobel Committee prepared to award the Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo, an obscure mainland group launched its own peace prize award ...

By Takahiko Hyuga and Shigeru Sato
September 10, 2012 5:58 PM PT


Tadahiro Matsushita, Japan's minister for financial services and postal reform, seen here in Tokyo on June 7, 2012. Photographer: Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/Bloomberg

Japanese Financial Services Minister Tadahiro Matsushita, who since taking the post in June led a crackdown on insider trading that triggered resignations of the top two executives at Nomura Holdings Inc. (8604), has died. He was 73. ...