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Clinging to one another in a tight embrace, the chilling image purporting to show a 43-year-old man and his 11-year-old son moments before their untimely deaths encapsulates the tragic reality of life in modern South Korea.

The grainy CCTV grab released in mid-September showed the moments before they became the latest statistics in what has rapidly become the country’s most glaring social ill: suicide.

The phenomenon that U.S.-based Groupon has enjoyed is hardly unique to the West. Group purchasing was initially a Chinese concept.

In China, group purchasing organizations, or “tuangou,” have been popular for some years, and some of the most popular tuangou organizations today are those that have taken their business online.

In the space of a few hours, North Korea opened a new chapter in the turbulent history of the Korean peninsula.

The new leader is a young man named Kim Jong-eun, the choice of his father, the Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, who’s survived longer than most people thought possible after suffering a stroke in August 2008 but has to have had intimations of mortality.

The outsourcing industry in Asia has matured over the years, with major players like India, China and the Philippines accounting for about 75 percent of the global outsourcing revenues, growing at an annual rate of at least 30 percent.

China’s economic growth has been incredible over the past decade. This has led to winds of change in its economic and political relations across the globe. Southeast Asia has been one of the regions in which the influence has been substantial. IThis decade has seen the Chinese take vital steps for mutual gains and economic cooperation, rather than an ideological confrontation or military conflict. This led to strong ties with Vietnam, Malaysia, Burma and Thailand.

The Chinese yuan climbed slightly to the U.S. dollar on Aug. 10 after Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner very candidly implored the mainland to permit its currency to strengthen.

Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas is an annual event of celebration for the Indian diaspora and will be held Jan. 7-9 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

Dr. Richard Saccone holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in business and received specialty training at the Defense Language School Institute in Monterey, California in Korean; at the United States Air Force Cross-Cultural Communications Course; and at the Special Investigators and Counterintelligence Course, USAF Special Investigations Academy, Washington D.C.

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak earned the nickname “Bulldozer” as he served in the 1970s and 1980s as chief executive of the country’s best-known builder and icon of breakneck industrialization.

With the increasing encroachment of social networks into the workspace and the increasing popularity of cloud-computing solutions, it should come as no surprise, say commentators, that online privacy and security issues are coming to the fore in Asia.

In the Asia-Pacific region, social computing and social media are well on their way to ruling the roost — in offices as well as in homes.

The immense popularity of social networks in this day and age has made it no less than critical for enterprises to invest and involve themselves in social computing initiatives. In short, they realize the importance of going where the customer goes.

With the launch of Adobe’s first version of their professional RAW workflow software – Lightroom - there has been a dramatic enhancement in both managing and editing photographs.

Adobe’s Lightroom 3 is designed to offer the ideal toolset for quickly and efficiently manage all images. With comprehensive features for importing, selecting, organizing, and finding images in a user’s library, managing photographs has become easier.

The new Cricket Crosswave portable WiFi device is now available from Huawei. The dual mode EVDO/WiFi Crosswave has the ability to connect with up to three devices at the same time.

It is compatible with most devices that support WiFi 802.11b/g including Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7, as well as Mac OS X10.4.11 to 10.6.3 (both 32 and 64 bit).

China surpassed the 420 million mark in the number of Internet users, sealing its title as the biggest global Internet presence – a title that it took from the United States.

This occurred just a few months after controversies reigned between China and Internet giant Google over censorship issues and alleged deliberate attempts to hack Google’s source codes and Gmail users.

It may seem odd to suggest that Italy be the model for Korea in its future development in technology.

Although Italy does not hold the dominant position in high volume manufacturing that Korea possesses, Italy offers exactly what Korea needs to jump into the next stage of economic development: an emphasis on fashion and ergonomics.

While technology sectors in Asia and Europe were hit hard by the global recession, lower costs and increasingly high quality of products and services offered by the Asian technology sector have enabled it to be competitive vis-à-vis its European competition.

In addition, the fact that China and India have been growing, combined with the increasing competitiveness of the Asian sectors, have led to increased demand in those markets for technology products and services from local firms.

When British soldiers arrived in war-ravaged South Korea in 1950 ready to do battle with the communists, one of the first things they noticed was a rag-tag U.S. army band struggling to keep in time.