Scrutinizing architectural elements of mosques
Editor’s note: On July 9 this year, hundreds of millions of Muslims are celebrating the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. For this occasion, Dr. Khalid Azab, an Egyptian writer who works as a media director at Alexandria Bibliotheca, Egypt tells about the architectural elements of mosques. Teachings of the Prophet (pbuh) and the principles laid […]
Egypt: The tale of two revolutions
For most Egyptians, the past year was just a nightmare, and the worst, compared with any bad ruling authorities in the history of Egypt. The country was under occupation of the Muslim Brotherhood ruling, embodied by the ousted Ex-President Mohammed Morsi Al-Ayat, who acted, for a year as a dictator by not responding the Egyptian […]
[Asia Round-up] In danger of being a nation run by thieves
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Editor’s note: Followings are summaries of editorials from major Asian media on current issues. Positive reinforcement more effective than physical punishment [Nepal, The Kathmandu Post, 05-07-2013] Recently, in a private school in Hirminiya, Banke of mid-western Nepal, a teacher hurled a textbook at eight-year-old Ajaya Dhobi for not finishing his homework. The book hit Ajaya’s […]
How social exchanges can help solve North Korea problem
North Korea is not an ordinary country. It is a major problem for the international community that has been remarkably resistant to solutions over the last two decades. Since the early 1990s, when the North Korean nuclear problem first emerged, the US and, more broadly, the international community has oscillated between “hard” and “soft” approaches […]
The Quest for Arab Knowledge Cities
Humanity’s awareness of science and the world changed as ages changed. Scientists have been describing ages according to the major innovation that occurred in it: the printing age, the machine age, the Industrial Revolution age, the technology age, the computer decade, the atom age, the Internet age, up to the ages of measuring extremely short […]
[Asia Round-up] Haze pollution – punish the criminals
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Editor’s note: Followings are summaries of editorials from major Asian media on current issues. Haze – punish the criminals [Brunei, The Brunei Times, 25-06-2013] Haze blowing onto Malaysia and Singapore from fires in Indonesia brings air population to life-threatening levels in some areas. Most of Indonesia is not affected by the fires and sometimes some […]
Floods, landslides ravages western Nepal, 40 dead
Kathmandu, June 24: The government of Nepal said that the death toll from the floods and landslides in the Mid Western and Far Western Development Regions has reached 40. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, 17 people went missing in the flash floods triggered by the torrential rain falls in western Nepal. More damage […]
[Asia Round-up] East Asia trade pact to help ease tensions
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Editor’s note: Followings are summaries of editorials from major Asian media on current issues. East Asia trade pact to help ease tensions [China, China Daily, 19-06-2013] Free trade talks involving China, Japan and South Korea are predicted to ease political tensions and meet challenges of other FTAs. Shin Bong-kil, secretary-general of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat […]
Samsung chosen as most popular company to work for in Asia
Survey commemorating the launching of ‘Magazine N’ “I want to work at Samsung, and visit Tokyo,” Asian university students say. They have also chosen Xi Jinping as the most influential individual in Asia. The students were asked three questions and Korea, China, and Japan each ranked first in one category. Which Asian companies do many […]
Floods wreaks havoc in western Nepal and northern India
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 district headquarters were swept away by the swollen Mahakali river that flows down from the Nepal-India border in […]
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