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Chinese Premier Li meets Pakistani President to strengthen alliance

Chinese Premier Li meets Pakistani President to strengthen alliance

The AsiaN Editor

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) meets with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 22, 2013. <Xinhua/Pang Xinglei> Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, center, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, fourth right, watch as Pakistani and

23 May 2013

More than 10,000 Jews attend celebrated Rabbi’s wedding

More than 10,000 Jews attend celebrated Rabbi’s wedding

The AsiaN Editor

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Bride Panett dances with the groom Rabbi Shalom Rokeach, the grandson of the Belz Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, during their wedding ceremony at the neighbourhood of Kiryat Belz in Jerusalem on May 21, 2013. More than 10,000 Jews participated in the wedding. Bride Panet

23 May 2013

Indonesian city personnel evict illegal housings of poor

Indonesian city personnel evict illegal housings of poor

The AsiaN Editor

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A woman stands amongs the ruins of her home as city security personnel evict illegal housings on a land which belongs to a company, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Hundreds of poverty-stricken people living in makeshift houses were evicted from the land.

23 May 2013

Nepali Rato Machhindranath chariot festival held in suburban Kathmandu

Nepali Rato Machhindranath chariot festival held in suburban Kathmandu

The AsiaN Editor

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The Nepalese priest climbs on top of the chariot to perform coconut dropping rituals during the Rato Machhindranath chariot festival in Lagankhel, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, May 21, 2013. The Nepalese worships Machhindranath for rain, good crop and prosperity

23 May 2013

Filipino protesters demand safety of Filipino workers in Taiwan

Filipino protesters demand safety of Filipino workers in Taiwan

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Protesters flash peace signa as they picket Taiwan’s Taipei Economic and Cultural Office at the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila, Philippines, Wednesday May 22, 2013, urging both governments to show restraint in the current diplomatic row followi

23 May 2013

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sends special envoy to China

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sends special envoy to China

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Wang Jiarui (R), vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Choe Ryong Hae, special envoy of the Democratic P

23 May 2013

‘Friends of Syria’ meeting: US, allies to increase support to Syrian rebels

‘Friends of Syria’ meeting: US, allies to increase support to Syrian rebels

The AsiaN Editor

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a meeting in Amman, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, on Syria. The United States and its European and Arab allies on Wednesday said they would increase support to rebels until the formation of a transitional government in Syria. In a

23 May 2013

Looking into North with hope for ‘United Korea’

Looking into North with hope for ‘United Korea’

Edmond Atemnkeng

Cameroon, The AsiaN Global Reporter, Works for Johnson & Johnson Korea

Prospects of a Unified Korea: Visit to Odu Mountain Unification Observatory Friends of Invest Korea group photo In an effort to attract FDIs (Foreign Direct Investments) into Korea, over 30 foreign students participated in the Friends of Invest Korea’s Program as ambas

23 May 2013

North Korea sanctions threaten humanitarian aid group

Aid agencies helping millions of people in North Korea could be forced to pull out after a Chinese bank cut ties with main foreign exchange bank, a humanitarian group said on May 22. The freeze – imposed amid growing concern over North Korea’s nuclear ambitio

The AsiaN Editor | news@theasian.asia | 23 May 2013

350 climbers including handless Nepali reach atop Mt. Everest, 4 dead

350 climbers including handless Nepali reach atop Mt. Everest, 4 dead

Nepal, Reporter of The Rising Nepal

members of the joint team of Nepali and Indian armies heading towards the peak of Mt. Everest Monday (Photo: Nepal Army) Kathmandu - Nearly 350 climbers reached atop Mt. Everest by May 20 this year. A total of 94 climbers, including Sudarshan Gautam, a handless (not hav

22 May 2013

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350 climbers including handless Nepali reach atop Mt. Everest, 4 dead

Kaesong: A 'hot potato' for N. Korea

Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov

Russia, Attended Kim Il-sung University, PhD in Korean History, Leningrad State University, Professor at Australian National University(1996), Professor at Kookmin University, Contributor for The AsiaN

So far, the Kaesong industrial zone, the largest intra-Korean economic project, has survived three nuclear tests, a number of long-range missile launches and a few armed clashes on the Korean peninsula. All these have killed other under ...

Tehran celebrates publishing of Ashraf Aboul-Yazid's poems in Persian

Egypt, Editor of Al-Arabi Magazine in Kuwait, Chief of The AsiaN's Middle East Bureau

Egyptian poet and novelist Ashraf Aboul-Yazid celebrated the publishing of his poems in Persian during Tehran International Book Fair. The ceremony started by reciting poems in Arabic, by the poet, and their equivalent in Persian, by ...

350 climbers including handless Nepali reach atop Mt. Everest, 4 dead

Nepal, Reporter of The Rising Nepal

Kathmandu - Nearly 350 climbers reached atop Mt. Everest by May 20 this year. A total of 94 climbers, including Sudarshan Gautam, a handless (not having both hands) Nepali, reached atop Mount Everest on Monday, thanks to the favourable ...

NGOs hide identity for fear of militants in restive Balochistan Province

Pakistan, Pakistan Press International Editor, Contributor for The AsiaN

Quetta, Balochistan - A grave situation prevails in restive Balochistan province of Pakistan, bordering Iran and Afghanistan, where the civil society organizations have removed boards and name plates from their office buildings, their s ...

Can India's government empower its people?

India, SPOTFILMS CEO, FORMEDIA Chairman

Commercial forestry: A legacy of British rule The Indian politician and the bureaucrat have struggled for the past 65 years to shed the legacy and the mechanisms of British rule and empower the people but have failed...why? As is ...

[Book Review] The Bamboo Stick: Dispersion between two worlds

Egypt, Managing Editor of the AsiaN's Middle East Bureau, Graduate Student of Mass Communication and Journalism at Ahram Canadian University

The Bamboo Stick: Dispersion between two worlds "The Bamboo Stick" is a novel by Kuwaiti writer Saud Al-Sanousi, which recently won the Booker prize for Arabic novels. It shows the story of Eissa or José, whose mother is Filipino while h ...

Common Sense Approach to Conflicts in East Asia

Singapore, President of Asia Journalist Association

Joint Project between the Northeast Asian History Foundation and The AsiaN *Editor's Note: Security in East Asia is swaying in a rough sea. North Korea's nuclear crisis has been highly elated amid existing territorial disputes and de ...