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In this worldview, the “Middle East” lay between the “Near East” (the Balkans) and the “Far East” (China and Japan). What we ...

Grammy-winning hitmaker joins Indian singer Sonu Nigam, rapper MC Jin, former Warner Music Asia executive to develop next generation of Asian global artists Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Ne-Yo has ...

South Korea will soon no longer be one of the few countries where Google Maps does not work properly, after its security-conscious government reversed a two-decade stance to approve the export of high ...

BEIJING -- Thousands of delegates from across China will gather in Beijing this week for annual political gatherings known as the Two Sessions, where economic and fiscal targets will be set. This year ...

As long as Washington sees Iran at the edge of the Middle East rather than the center of “West Asia,” it will continue to fall prey to miscalculations. On February 28, the United States and Israel ...

South Korea approved Google’s request to export detailed map data, reversing a longstanding restriction that made the tool largely nonfunctional. By John Yoon Reporting from Seoul South Korea said on ...

Google Maps wants to close its gaps. One of the biggest in the search giant’s navigation app is South Korea. Nearly two decades after the service launched, even basic walking or driving directions ...