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Turkish government offers referendum on Gezi Park development project

Turkish government offers referendum on Gezi Park development project

The AsiaN Editor

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In this photo released by the Turkish Prime Minister's Press Office, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, background centre, and some of his ministers and advisors meet with with a group of activists in his offices at his Justice and Development Party in Anka

13 Jun 2013

Afghan local Islamic school graduates receive graduation certificate

Afghan local Islamic school graduates receive graduation certificate

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An Afghan man hands a certificate to a student as he graduates from a local Islamic school or madrassa, during a graduation ceremony at the Mazharal Olom mosque in Ghazni province west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June, 12, 2013. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Rahmatullah Nik

13 Jun 2013

Situation turns to worsen in Turkey, anti-gov’t protest continues

Situation turns to worsen in Turkey, anti-gov’t protest continues

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Protesters take cover as a police vehicle fires water canon during clashes at the Taksim Square in Istanbul Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced their way through barricades in the square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occ

12 Jun 2013

Campaign rallies held for Iran’s presidential election on June 14

Campaign rallies held for Iran’s presidential election on June 14

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Supporters of Iranian former senior military commander and presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei participate in his campaign rally in downtown Tehran, capital of Iran, on June 10, 2013. Iran’s 11th presidential election is scheduled for June 14. <Xinhua/NEWSis/A

11 Jun 2013

Pakistani militants attack NATO supply containers, 5 people dead

Pakistani militants attack NATO supply containers, 5 people dead

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A torched NATO supply truck is seen after an attack by militants in northwest Pakistan's Jamrud on June 10, 2013. At least five people were killed when unknown militants opened fire at two NATO containers in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Khyber Agency Monda

11 Jun 2013

A Kuwaiti woman sentenced 11-year term due to insulting emir on twitter

A Kuwaiti woman sentenced 11-year term due to insulting emir on twitter

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Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah attends the opening session of a humanitarian pledging conference for Syria held in Kuwait city, Kuwait, on Jan. 30, 2013. (Photo : Xinhua/Noufal Ibrahim) Kuwait opposition groups say a woman has been sentenced to 11 y

11 Jun 2013

Turkish PM Erdogan to meet protesters to get out of impasse

Turkish PM Erdogan to meet protesters to get out of impasse

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Security personnel gather, backdropped by a large picture of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as they prepare for his arrival in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 9, 2013. Tens of thousands of people thronged Istanbul's Taksim Square Saturday, and thousands mo

11 Jun 2013

Trial on former Egyptian President Mubarak adjourned to July 6

Trial on former Egyptian President Mubarak adjourned to July 6

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In this Tuesday Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, demonstrators deface a poster of President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (Photo : AP Photo) A Cairo court adjourned to July 6 the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak over charges of corruption and involvement in the k

11 Jun 2013

Turkish PM accuses protesters of creating environment of terror

Turkish PM accuses protesters of creating environment of terror

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters upon arriving in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 9, 2013. In a series of increasingly belligerent speeches to cheering supporters Sunday, Turkey's prime minister launched a verbal attack on the tens of thou

10 Jun 2013

Turkish protesters practice yoga at Gezi park of Taksim Square

Turkish protesters practice yoga at Gezi park of Taksim Square

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A yoga teacher gives directions with a loudspeaker to protesters who practice at the Gezi park of Taksim square in Istanbul on Thursday, June 6, 2013. (Photo : AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Turkey’s prime minister took a combative stance on his closely watched retu

7 Jun 2013

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Cambodia-Thailand agree to establish two special economic zones

Turkish protesters practice yoga at Gezi park of Taksim Square

N. Korea: player in the Gwangju Democratic Uprising?

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

Korean history as seen in South Korea is deeply contentious. It is not incidental that many school textbooks prefer to stop their narrative around 1960, quietly assuming that what happened after is too controversial for anything resembl ...

Floods wreaks havoc in western Nepal and northern India

Nepal, Reporter of The Rising Nepal

Kathmandu- Incessant monsoon rains have wreaked havoc in western Nepal. Dozens of people were killed in the floods and mudslides triggered by the heavy rain. About 60 houses, including 11 government offices and a hospital of Darchula di ...

World celebrates prince of Russian poetry Alexander Pushkin

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

On the day of the Russian language: The world celebrates prince of Russian poetry Alexander Pushkin For almost 150 million people, the Russian language is considered their mother tongue, added to that figure nearly 100 million more w ...

Using dung-cakes as fuel in resource rich Pakistan

Pakistan, Pakistan Press International Editor, Contributor for The AsiaN

People using firewood and dung-cakes as fuel in Pakistan Pakistan is bestowed with abundant natural resources including oil, gas, coal, hydro, wind and solar to meet its all requirements yet it’s faced with severe energy crisis, unpr ...

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 ...