Top UN officials warn against growing human trafficking
*Editor’s note: High-ranking UN officials including Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon delivered speeches at the special General Assembly meeting held Tuesday (Apr. 3, 2012) in New York to raise the awareness among the members nations about the seriousness of the human trafficking. The AsiaN excerpted the story from the UN home page. UNITED NATIONS – At a […]
Transgender Woman to Compete in Miss Universe
Jenna Talackova, foreground, who advanced to the finals of the Miss Canada competition, part of the Miss Universe contest, who was recently forced out of the competition, appears with her attorney Gloria Allred at a news conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Talackova says she was forced out of the competition because Pageant […]
Russia suffers frequent plane crashes
Russian emergency workers search the crash site of the ATR-72 plane crash outside Tyumen, a major regional center in Siberia, Russia, Monday, April 2, 2012. <Photo: AP/Newsis> MOSCOW (Xinhua) — Russia, once an aviation powerhouse, has been plagued by deadly plane crashes in recent years, with the latest claiming 31 lives on Monday when a French-Italian-made […]
Turkish energy minister hates hike but says necessary
Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz said he also did not like the new natural gas energy hike price increase of 18 percent on Monday. Yet Yildiz went on to explain that even with the natural gas discount his country had received in 2011 from Russia it was not enough to offset rising cost […]
Korea-Arab Society actively builds up cultural bridges
Although Korea and the Arab world have had links through the Silk Road for more than 1,000 years, in modern times, they have been restricted to the Arab construction boom in the 1970s and ‘80s and, more recently, to Korea’s energy dependency on Middle East oil. A joint partnership led by a retired Korean diplomat […]
Two victims outcry danger of nuclear power plant
HAPCHON, Korea – “There is no perfect safety as far as nuclear program is concerned. A land once devastated by nuclear pollution will never be restored to the state it used to be,” outcried two victims of nuclear fallout who visited Korea on the occasion of the Anti-Nuclear and Peace Festival held in Hapchon, about […]
Ashes widely used as detergent in Bangladesh
DHAKA, March 29 (Xinhua) — Some old practices are still surviving in Bangladesh, competing with modern inventions for kitchen. Ashes produced in conventional home-made oven and modern detergent are in a queer combination in the country. Ashes are sold by vendors in the residential districts of the capital Dhaka. Nobody can say exactly when the […]
English becomes main foreign language in Georgia
A Georgian student majoring in Chinese edits a script at the get-together in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, Jan. 26, 2011. <File photo> TBILISI, Georgia, March 28 (Xinhua) — The Georgian Education Ministry on Wednesday announced that English has become the main foreign language for examination with a choice rate of 73 percent of test takers. […]
Kathmandu to be cleaner thanks to cleaning campaign
Nepal’s former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal (L) sweeps the road during a cleaning campaign in Kathmandu, Nepal, Oct. 7, 2010. <File photo: Xinhua> KATHMANDU, Nepal (Xinhua) — Nepali capital city may soon take on a cleaner look after the city launched a clean city campaign. The metropolis is all set to boost public […]
Philippine President optimistic of higher tourist arrivals this year
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III prepares to make the ceremonial ringing of the bell to start the trading at the Philippine Stocks Exchange at the financial district of Makati city east of Manila, Philippines Tuesday March 6, 2012. <File photo: AP/Newsis> MANILA (Xinhua) — Philippine President Beningo S. Aquino III said on Tuesday that government […]
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