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Paper submission for Indonesian students conference extended

Paper submission for Indonesian students conference extended

Meidyana Rayana

Indonesia, Intern Reporter, Graduate Student of Political Science and Economics at Korea University

Due to overwhelming demands, Indonesian Students Conference 2013 extends the deadline submission for scientific research submission to April 28. Conference of Indonesia Student in Korea 2013 – Extension of Paper Submission Deadline to April 28 Around 500 Indonesia

8 Apr 2013

New media: Catalyst for creating new opportunities

Bangladesh keeps up the global pace of prevalent ‘new media’ The use of new media tools in trade and investments has added a new dimension altogether. The new media, of course thanks to technology, has now been an everyday sidekick to business development st

Sajjad Alam Khan | news@theasian.asia | 8 Apr 2013

Damsels banned in driver’s cabin in western Nepal

Kathmandu – Damsels sitting in the driver’s cabin divert the concentration of the man in charge of the steering wheel and lead to road accidents. The bus entrepreneurs in western hill of Nepal have arrived at this conclusion and asked the staff of its long route

Bishnu Gautam | news@theasian.asia | 8 Apr 2013

Visitors pass by weapons at Korea War Memorial Museum as tensions escalate between the two Koreas

Visitors pass by weapons at Korea War Memorial Museum as tensions escalate between the two Koreas

The AsiaN Editor

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Visitors pass by weapons deployed in the Korean War era at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative a

8 Apr 2013

Chinese President Xi meets Mongolian Chairman of State Great Hural

Chinese President Xi meets Mongolian Chairman of State Great Hural

The AsiaN Editor

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with Chairman of State Great Hural of Mongolia Zandaakhuu Enkhbold during their meeting on the sidelines of Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2013 in Boao, south China’s Hainan Province, April 7, 2013. <Xi

8 Apr 2013

A fire breaks out at government office building in Kashmir

A fire breaks out at government office building in Kashmir

The AsiaN Editor

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An Indian fire fighter tries to extinguish a fire at government office building in Srinagar, India, Sunday, April 7, 2013. The cause of fire is not known and no one was hurt in the incident. <AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan>

8 Apr 2013

Egypt’s railway workers’ strike freezes train services across country

Egypt’s railway workers’ strike freezes train services across country

The AsiaN Editor

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Passengers wait at the platform at Cairo’s Ramses train station, Egypt, April 7, 2013. Egypt’s railway workers started a strike on Sunday, bringing train movement across the country to an almost complete halt. <Xinhua/STR>

8 Apr 2013

Former Pakistani military ruler Musharraf allowed to run for parliament

Former Pakistani military ruler Musharraf allowed to run for parliament

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Pakistanis look at posters of former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf along a roadside on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan on Sunday, April 7, 2013. Musharraf was given approval on Sunday to run for parliament in a remote northern district after being rejected i

8 Apr 2013

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Holocaust memorial

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Holocaust memorial

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the official ceremony for Israeli annual Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on April 7, 2013. <Xinhua/Jini>

8 Apr 2013

A Yemeni man passes anti-smoking graffiti on World Health Day

A Yemeni man passes anti-smoking graffiti on World Health Day

The AsiaN Editor

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A Yemeni man passes a wall with anti-smoking graffiti in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 7, 2013. The World Health Day is celebrated on April 7 to mark the 65th anniversary of the World Health Organization that was established in 1948. The theme for 2013 is high blood pressure.

8 Apr 2013

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Cambodia-Thailand agree to establish two special economic zones

A Yemeni man passes anti-smoking graffiti on World Health Day

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 ...