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Japan and India vow to enhance strategic, global partnership

Japan and India vow to enhance strategic, global partnership

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, shakes hands with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe at the start of talks at the latter's official residence in Tokyo, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Singh is currently on a four-day official visit to Japan. <AP Photo/Kimima

30 May 2013

Int’l conference to find political solutions to Syria crisis kicks off in Iran

Int’l conference to find political solutions to Syria crisis kicks off in Iran

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UN envoy Gary Lewis (C) speaks during the international conference on Syria crisis in Tehran, Iran, on May 29, 2013. An international conference on the Syria crisis kicked off in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Wednesday with the participation of more than 40 representa

30 May 2013

India’s PM Singh’s Japan trip sends strong message to China

India’s PM Singh’s Japan trip sends strong message to China

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talks with Buddhist monks at his lecture in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. <AP Photo/Koji Sasahara> India and Japan share a strong strategic interest in expanding cooperation on maritime security and promoting regional stability,

29 May 2013

China, Sri Lanka upgrade relationships as two presidents hold talks

China, Sri Lanka upgrade relationships as two presidents hold talks

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Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa, second right, and China's President Xi Jinping, second left, attend their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. <AP Photo/Kim Kyung-Hoon, Pool> China and Sri Lanka agreed to upgra

29 May 2013

IT means democratising of information

IT means democratising of information

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Wael Ghonim Interview with internet and education activist Wael Ghonim Wael Ghonim, 32, became an international figure in 2011 for his role in the pro-democracy revolution in Egypt as co-creator and administrator of the Facebook page that helped spark the revolution. He

29 May 2013

Kuwaiti and Iraqi FM sign MOUs on border marking, housing project

Kuwaiti and Iraqi FM sign MOUs on border marking, housing project

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Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah (L) and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari arrives at a joing press conference at foreign ministry building in Kuwait City on 28 May 2013. Kuwait and Iraq sign two memorandums of understanding regarding measure

29 May 2013

Hashimoto makes another controversial remark on wartime sex slave

Hashimoto makes another controversial remark on wartime sex slave

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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo Monday, May 27, 2013. The outspoken Japanese politician apologized Monday for saying U.S. troops should patronize adult entertainment businesses as a

28 May 2013

African leaders urge ICC to transfer charge against Kenyan President

African leaders urge ICC to transfer charge against Kenyan President

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Heads of state and government of African countries, as well as representatives from African Union (AU), pose for a group photo after a closed session of the 21st Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 26, 2013. The two-da

28 May 2013

Indian PM Manmohan Singh arrives in Tokyo for four-day official visit

Indian PM Manmohan Singh arrives in Tokyo for four-day official visit

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks to journalists upon arrival at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Monday, May 27, 2013. Singh is here for a four-day official visit. <AP Photo/Koji Sasahara>

28 May 2013

EU ends arms embargo on Syrian rebels to press Assad’s regime

EU ends arms embargo on Syrian rebels to press Assad’s regime

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British Foreign Secretary William Hague, seated, talks with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, during the EU foreign ministers meeting, at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 27, 2013. The European Union nations remain divided on Monday whether

28 May 2013

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The 'third Korea' Yanbian in decline

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

As everybody knows, there are two Koreas – North and South. There is also, however, another area that is often described as the ‘third Korea’ – the Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture, located in northeast China, along the border with ...

Artist Hend Adnan: A woman revolution against the mind of donkeys!

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

Well. I wrote previously on Hend Adnan's works of art, but when she introduces a new idea, in a unique way, I must review that, as I believe it is the reader's right to know. Talking about rights, and duties, the idea of having four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...