(LinkAsia Bulletin: 2/25/13) Conservative new South Korean President Park Geun-hye surprised observers by toning down hardline rhetoric and emphasizing personal happiness and cultural change in her inaugural speech in Seoul...

(LinkAsia: 2/22/13) Most domestic migrant workers in China's largest cities return home to rural areas for the annual Spring Festival, in what is called the world's largest human migration. But...

(LinkAsia: 2/22/13) Tubbataha Reef in the Philippines is UNESCO's only Marine World Heritage Site in Southeast Asia. That's why the outcry was so severe when an American minesweeper ship, the...

(LinkAsia: 2/22/13) English schools in Seoul's posh Gangnam district have been accused of helping their students cheat on the American college entrance exam, the SAT. South Korean broadcaster MBC reports...

(LinkAsia: 2/22/13) South Korean broadcaster MBC reports that a conservative US news site and a Japanese news agency both claim that Iranian nuclear scientists played a role in North Korea's...

The 'dash for gas' has gone East and the fracking multinationals have moved in to secure the sizable shale deposits lying deep in Poland's underbelly. Advocates say this will bring...

Across the UK, Britain's green, picturesque land is facing uncertainty after the arrival of fracking. The spectre of gas wells and drilling sites, articulated trucks, waste lagoons, and other fracking...

Nelsa Curbelo is a 70-year-old former nun who has helped to broker peace processes in many of Latin America's bloody civil wars. Now she's turning her attention to Ecuador's gang...

Protesters in the coastal city of Port Said held anti-government demonstrations titled "Friday of Apology" and chanted slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood. This is in response to recent clashes...

(LinkAsia: 2/22/13) "Can a search engine succeed if you have no concept of the free flow of information?" That was the question posed by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee...

(LinkAsia: 2/22/13) A new report by the New York Times and cyber security company Mandiant charges that China's People's Liberation Army is behind a flood of hacking attacks carried out...

(LinkAsia: 2/22/13) An American cyber security company, Mandiant, has charged that China's army contains a unit whose main responsibility is hacking American companies and organizations. LinkAsia speaks with cyber security...

This week on LinkAsia, China is accused of wide-ranging cyber attacks on the US, North Korea and Iran accused of sharing nuclear secrets, a US Navy ship runs aground in...

Tzipi Livni's centrist Hatnuah Party is the first to join the Benjamin Netanyahu coalition government following Israel's election on January 22. The center-right Shas Party and Yisrael Beiteinu are still...

The Free Syrian Army has disowned an earlier statement in which it had apparently vowed to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon. The original threat of force was made over accusations that...