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Bangladeshi activists throw stones in protest against anti-blasphemy law

Bangladeshi activists throw stones in protest against anti-blasphemy law

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Bangladeshi protesters throw stones at policemen during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Police in Bangladesh’s capital fired rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing Islamic activists Sunday during a protest to demand that the government enac

6 May 2013

India celebrates 100 years of filmmaking

India celebrates 100 years of filmmaking

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In this April 18, 2013 photo, an Indian woman looks through a bioscope on the premises of the Anup Touring Talkies tent cinema in Mumbai, India. Friday, May 3 marks exactly a hundred years after India's first feature film "Raja Harischandra," a silent movie

5 May 2013

The Indian free school founder teaches slum children under bridge

The Indian free school founder teaches slum children under bridge

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Underprivileged boys take down notes from a blackboard painted on a concrete wall at a free school run under a mass transit bridge in New Delhi, India on Dec. 11, 2012. Rajesh Kumar Sharma, the founder of a free school for slum children, teaches a class at a free schoo

4 May 2013

Elderly Indian widows pray on bank of Ganga river

Elderly Indian widows pray on bank of Ganga river

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An elderly Indian widow cleans rice sitting in the front of her small living quarters in an Ashram, on the bank of Holy river Ganges in Varanasi, India , Sunday, April 28, 2013. In India, being a widow remains one of the worst stigmas. When her husband dies, the widow o

4 May 2013

Bangladesh’s garment industry hit by building collapse

Bangladesh’s garment industry hit by building collapse

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Relatives hold up portraits of many still missing from last week's collapse of a garment factory building, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rescuers found more bodies in the concrete debris of the collapsed garment factory building Thursday a

3 May 2013

Pakistani supporters observe 2nd anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death

Pakistani supporters observe 2nd anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death

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Supporters of Pakistan’s religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) receive food distributed at a rally to pay tribute to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Quetta, Pakistan on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Hundreds of JUI supporters observed the second anniversary of bi

3 May 2013

Convicted Indian spy dies from Pakistani jail blow

Convicted Indian spy dies from Pakistani jail blow

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Pakistani policemen carry the coffin of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who was injured in an attack inside jail last week and died of wounds early Thursday. Singh spent more than 21 years in Pakistan after being convicted of spying for India and involvement in a se

3 May 2013

India’s ruling Congress chief Sonia Gandhi waves to supporters

India’s ruling Congress chief Sonia Gandhi waves to supporters

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India’s ruling Congress chief Sonia Gandhi waves to supporters during a campaign rally for the assembly elections at palace ground in Bangalore, India, on May 2, 2013. <Xinhua/stringer>

3 May 2013

RCEP vs. TPP: Choice between China and America?

RCEP vs. TPP: Choice between China and America?

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (8th L) and other leaders hold hands during the launching ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Negotiation, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Nov. 20, 2012. ASEAN and its partners including China, Australia, India, South Ko

2 May 2013

Pakistani opposition leader’s election campaign poster hung on wall

Pakistani opposition leader’s election campaign poster hung on wall

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Children peer through a window of their house, as an election campaign poster of Pakistan’s former cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan with versus in Arabic from the Quran, hangs on a wall in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Pakistan is schedule

2 May 2013

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Cambodia-Thailand agree to establish two special economic zones

Pakistani opposition leader’s election campaign poster hung on wall

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 ...