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Filip Stojanovski is a Global Voices author and translator based in Skopje, Macedonia. He is the Program Coordinator of Metamorphosis, a think tank which seeks the development of democracy and prosperity by promoting...
THE online media poses many possibilities, from rising to stardom or applying for a dream job with just a click. Never did AirAsia’s So You Wanna Be A Pilot contest winners Samuel Yee and Soon Chee Keong imagine they could...
Tokyo-, Osaka- and Shanghai-based business consultancy providing support for start-up companies, Akinai Research Institute[J] just introduced a new program encouraging entrepreneurs in terms of financial, personnel and material...
The Wii no Ma Channel (Wii Family Room Channel) is getting an upgrade that allows for videos to be downloaded to the Wii such as TV shows and movies. The new ‘Theater Room’ allows users to rent any video content they want and...
Saturday 21st November, 04:00 AM JST TOKYO — Kabuki actor Ebizo Ichikawa, 31, and newscaster Mao Kobayashi, 27, revealed in a fax signed by both this week that they were heading down the road toward marriage, with plans to tie...
Saturday 21st November, 05:49 AM JST CHIBA — A Spanish man was given a 10-year prison term and a 5 million yen fine in a lay jury trial Friday for smuggling illegal stimulants to Japan in May, despite his plea of being...
Here is an excerpt, presented by Shukan Asahi (Nov 27), from the suicide note left by an 11-year-old boy: “All I can think of is death. Overwhelmingly, suicide is an adult phenomenon—but not exclusively, and the clinical...
Saturday 21st November, 06:47 AM JST While many airlines continue to struggle amid the prolonged recession, Middle Eastern carriers are flying high and looking to Japan. Etihad Airways has announced plans to launch flights to...
Japan's Scientists Fight Proposed Budget Cuts Nothing rouses a research community like a threat to its funding, as could be seen this week here in Japan after a task force recommended deep cuts (subs req) in the Ministry of...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, two months in office, faces headaches over how to keep his Democratic Party's campaign promises while cutting huge debt and trying to keep the economy from tipping back...
