Which universities are the top universities in Asia? What are the best Asian university programs? How do those rank when  compared to other top universities and programs around the world? Following is a complete list according to the different rankings available around the world. Top 50 Asian Universities from Shanghai Jiao-Tung University’s Top 100 Asia Pacific Universities (name, world rank, location) :  Tokyo Univ - 20 - Japan Kyoto Univ - 22 - Japan Hebrew Univ Jerusalem - 64 - Israel Osaka Univ - 67 - Japan …

The South Korean TV drama “My Lovely Sam Soon” (/”My name is Sam Soon”/내 이름은 김삼순/”סאם סון המתוקה”) is one of Asia’s most successful TV drama ever and it has finally made it to Israel with Hebrew subtitles. Aside from Anime series, I think this is the first Asian drama shown in Israeli TV, and that’s definitely a cause for celebration. Synopsis Kim Sam Soon (SS) is a 29 years old, fat, pastry chef, who has just lost her job and her boyfriend on Christmas Eve. She has all the insecurities of a woman grazing 30. With yet another failed relationship, SS scrambles desperately to rebuild her career and her love life. …

Suppose you’re heading the tourism promotion team for your country, say China, Taiwan, Korea or Israel, and you have total control and no money constraints, what would you focus on?
Last week, I talked with two Chinese who visited Israel and were extremely surprised  with what they saw here. Putting it nicely, they were expecting a desert wasteland with religious people riding camels and shooting each other. We got into a discussion of how Israel is promoted in China and how China is promoted world wide, and it was interesting to see what each of us wanted to focus on.
When I asked them to guess what the Israeli tourism bureau chose to promote Israel with, the Chinese suggested that Israel …

Lots of things are happening lately and I can hardly keep up. Here are some recent news and events related to Asia-Israel connections : Korea and Israel are celebrating 45 years of formal relations. Although relations went cold till early 90s, Korea and Israel pretend that never happens and have launched a full-scale campaign of “Know Korea better”. While visiting the Korean embassy a few weeks ago, I was informed that over 20 Korea related events will take place across Israel in the upcoming months. The Jerusalem Cinemateq wakes up to Asia - To mark …

Korea is still a big mystery to me. I don’t really know much about Korea, but I came across Korean influences in almost all the Asian countries that I’ve been to, and they were always in a positive context. Korean culture - Korean movies, Korean fashion and Korean food are regarded of very high quality and of good style in both Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore. The only Korean influences I’ve noticed in Israel so far were the growing Korean community at the Hebrew University, a Korean restaurant in Jerusalem and a Korean girl that I met downtown. It weird that almost nobody in the East Asian Department takes the Korean courses and Korea wasn’t represented in the …

Communist China and Vietnam are now open for all, yet "The People's Democratic Republic of Korea" - North Korea - remains a mystery. There's so little that we realy know about North Korea that any piece of information is highly valued and extremely interesting. Artemia Lebedev has had the opportunity to go into North Korea and take a few limited photos. Here's a translated version of his Russian tales: Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V …