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Erich Weingartner speaks about the re-launch of the Canada-North Korea news service

Erich Weingartner speaks about the re-launch of the Canada-North Korea news service

By Asia Pacific Memo on July 15, 2010

Memo #3 – Erich Weingartner, Editor of CanKor, speaks about North Korea and the new version of The CanKor Blog. This Canada-North Korea news service “aims to provide information and analysis that does not get the attention it deserves in the commercial media”.

Is South Korea’s Hyper-Education System The Future?

Is South Korea’s Hyper-Education System The Future?

By Asia Pacific Memo on July 13, 2010

Memo #2 – A recent workshop at the University of Waterloo concluded that hyper-education will spread globally in the future. Currently, South Korea’s education system seems to be the most extreme. It is increasingly structured around tutoring in “hagwon” (supplemental education institutions). Korea has taken on even more extreme forms of examination “hell” than Japan.

Thai Academics Are As Polarized And Dispirited As Their Nation

Thai Academics Are As Polarized And Dispirited As Their Nation

By Asia Pacific Memo on July 8, 2010

Memo #1 – The recent images of the G20 protests in Toronto were disturbing. But they pale in comparison to the scale and implications of the street protests in Bangkok earlier in the summer.

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