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Afghan refugees shear wool off the sheep in suburban Islamabad

Afghan refugees shear wool off the sheep in suburban Islamabad

The AsiaN Editor

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A Afghan refugee man holds a sheep while another uses a scissor to shear the wool off the sheep, in a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, April 22, 2013. Pakistan hosts over 1.6 million registered Afghans, the largest and most protracted refugee popul

27 Apr 2013

Death toll in Bangladeshi building collapse rises to 275

Death toll in Bangladeshi building collapse rises to 275

The AsiaN Editor

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A Bangladeshi rescuer looks out from a hole cut in the concrete as he looks for survivors at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013. By Thursday, the death toll reached at least 194 people as rescuers co

26 Apr 2013

Malala launches football for ‘peace’ initiative

Malala launches football for ‘peace’ initiative

The AsiaN Reporter

President and Founder of Peace and Sport, Diego Maradona in his role as honorary ambassador of the Dubai Sports Council, as well as Elias Figueroa and Kashif Siddiqi representing the Football for Peace initiative, supporting Malala’s foundation. (Photo: Peace and Sport

26 Apr 2013

Exile Tibetan monks carry portraits of self-immolators in candlelit protest

Exile Tibetan monks carry portraits of self-immolators in candlelit protest

The AsiaN Editor

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Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks carry portraits of Tibetan self-immolators and of their religious leader Panchen Lama during a candlelit protest gathering in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Reports say three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire t

26 Apr 2013

At least 161 dead in Bangladesh building collapse

At least 161 dead in Bangladesh building collapse

The AsiaN Editor

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Rescuers look for survivors in the debris of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh's capital on Wednesday, killing dozens of people an

25 Apr 2013

Can India’s government empower its people?

Can India’s government empower its people?

India, SPOTFILMS CEO, FORMEDIA Chairman

Landscape with barren hills impacting the micro-climate of the region 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

25 Apr 2013

Indian Kashmiri Muslim devotees carry out torch light procession

Indian Kashmiri Muslim devotees carry out torch light procession

The AsiaN Editor

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Kashmiri Muslim devotees carry wooden torches as they prepare for a torch light procession on a hilltop near the shrine of Muslim saint Sakhi Zain-ud-din Wali, in Aishmuqaam, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. The farming

25 Apr 2013

Buddha’s lamp carried to Korea to ease tensions

Buddha’s lamp carried to Korea to ease tensions

The AsiaN Reporter

Nepali and Korean monks carry out the peace lamp kindling ritual on April 18 in the Buddha's birthplace Lumbini. <Photo: Dosunsa Temple> The ‘peace lamp’ kindled in the Buddha’s birthplace Lumbini has been travelling to the nuclear crisis-ridden

24 Apr 2013

Pakistanis gather at bomb blast site that killed 4 people

Pakistanis gather at bomb blast site that killed 4 people

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People gathered at a blast site in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta on April 23, 2013. At least four people were killed and 37 others injured on Tuesday night in a series of bomb blasts followed by a suicide attack in Pakistan’s southwestern provincial capital of

24 Apr 2013

Nepal’s former minister is now rearing pigs

Nepal’s former minister is now rearing pigs

Nepal, Reporter of The Rising Nepal

Former Minister Joshi at his piggery at Khajuraha in western Terai of Nepal (Photo: Govinda Sharma) Kathmandu - Former Minister Shiva Raj Joshi who spent almost 15 years at the Singh Durbar, the central secretariat of the Nepal government, as a parliamentarian and a min

23 Apr 2013

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Cambodia-Thailand agree to establish two special economic zones

Nepal’s former minister is now rearing pigs

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 ...