The region's media alliance Asia News Network celebrated its 20th anniversary in Seoul recently, with the resolve to bring Asia even more closer together. LAST WEEK, senior editors of Asia News Network (ANN) met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House in Seoul to get an insight on his country and the third Trump-Kim summit. For Christoph Grabitz, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Asia media programme director, the visit to the Blue Hose was exciting. For example, the editors had a meeting with Japan Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Tokyo in 2003, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore in 2014 and China Premier Li Keqiang in 2016. “Whenever we had an editorial meeting in some city – most of the time – the prime minister or the president of the country would welcome us to their country.

Source: The Star May 04, 2019 23:26 UTC