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UN Secretary-General Ban visits Heal Africa hospital in Goma, Congo

UN Secretary-General Ban visits Heal Africa hospital in Goma, Congo

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, center, is escorted by Heal Africa co-founder Dr. Jo Lusi, right, as the U.N. chief visits the Heal Africa hospital in Goma, eastern Congo, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Ban arrived Thursday in Goma, hours after a rebel group fight

24 May 2013

US Secretary of State Kerry meets with Palestinian President Abbas

US Secretary of State Kerry meets with Palestinian President Abbas

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, May 23, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in

24 May 2013

Arab FMs attend emergency meeting on Syria at AL headquaters in Cairo

Arab FMs attend emergency meeting on Syria at AL headquaters in Cairo

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Foreign ministers attend the emergency meeting of Arab Ministerial Committee on Syria at the headquarters of Cairo-based Arab League (AL) in Cairo, Egypt, May. 23, 2013. The Arab Ministerial Committee on Syria held an emergency meeting Thursday here in the headquarters

24 May 2013

80-year-old Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, oldest to summit Mt. Everest

80-year-old Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, oldest to summit Mt. Everest

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A team of climbers led by 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura, third from left on the peak, stand on the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Miura on Thursday became the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest, a Nepali official and Miura

24 May 2013

Chinese Premier Li meets Pakistani President to strengthen alliance

Chinese Premier Li meets Pakistani President to strengthen alliance

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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

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

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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

Afghan President meets Indian counterpart to seek military aid

Afghan President meets Indian counterpart to seek military aid

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Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, right, listens to Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a meeting at the Indian Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Karzai is meeting with Indian leaders and is expected to seek increased military aid from In

22 May 2013

US Secretary of State Kerry meets Omani Sultan to discuss Syria plan

US Secretary of State Kerry meets Omani Sultan to discuss Syria plan

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Omani Sultan Qabus Bin Said al-Said (R) meets with visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Muscat, capital of Oman, on May 21, 2013. <Xinhua/Oman News Agency> Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to the Middle East on Monday to press his case for peace

22 May 2013

8 candidates determined for June 14 Iranian presidential election

8 candidates determined for June 14 Iranian presidential election

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This combination of eight pictures shows eight candidates approved Tuesday, May 21, 2013 for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits, clockwise from left: Mohammad Gharazi, Mohsen Rezaei, Mohamm

22 May 2013

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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 ...