‘The Wheels of Happiness’ are run by all
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 deep-rooted conflicts between nations in the region. South Korea, China and Japan, the countries directly involved, are all looking […]
The Lessons of Revolutions and the Harvest of Times
In a few days, on the fifth of July, the Algerian people celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their independence, marking the victory of their revolution against French occupation. A few weeks later, in the same month, falls the sixtieth anniversary of the 23 July Revolution in Egypt. In their time both revolutions were nationalistic and […]
A worker produces the first Palestinian 3D animated film in Gaza City
A Palestinian employee works on the first Palestinian 3D animated film production in Gaza City on Feb. 27, 2013. <Xinhua/Wissam Nassar>
A couple enjoys intimate conversation under the plum blossoms in Nanjing
Photo taken on Feb. 27, 2013 shows people enjoy the scenery of plum blossoms at the “plum blossom mountain” scenic spot in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province. Plum blossoms began to bloom as temperature rised in Jiangsu. Photo taken on Feb. 27, 2013 shows a couple enjoy the scenery of plum blossoms at […]
How media plays in territorial disputes
Truthful and fair reporting based on the facts from an objective viewpoint might be one of the ways in which the media can help find peaceful solutions to rampant territorial disputes in Asia. During a seminar organized by the Asia Journalist Association (AJA) and sponsored by the Korea Press Foundation (KPF), speakers and panelists put […]
Shiite Muslims carry bodies of those killed by bomb blasts in Quetta, Pakistan
In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo, Pakistanis walk by the rubble in a market which was damaged by a bomb blast on Saturday, February 16, 2013, in Quetta, Pakistan. Terrorized by ferocious attacks that have killed nearly 400 ethnic Hazaras in the past 18 months, with almost half of those deaths occurring in the […]
Vietnamese PM talks with visiting Swedish Justice Minister in Hanoi
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (front R) meets with visiting Sweden’s Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, Feb. 27, 2013. <Xinhua/VNA>
A big banner showing a national flag hung in central Seoul to celebrate Mar.1 Independence Movement Day
Workers hang a banner showing a nation flag to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in front of the Sejong Culture Center in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 28, 2013. The letters read ” The 94th anniversary of the Independence Movement Day, One People and […]
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