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West Asia
Gay in the South Caucasus: LGBT life in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan
Armenia “I lost so many friends…” Karen Arakelyan (note: name has been changed for purposes of anonymity) for years fought against himself, trying to change the truth known only to him. But as a result, it became impossible to live with this secret, and he decided to come out: “I’m…
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East Asia
South Korea to build textile techno-park in Uzbekistan
Tashkent recently hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the Korea-Uzbekistan Textile Techno-Park in the territory of the Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry, the Times of Central Asia cites the Jahan information agency report. The project to establish in Tashkent the Textile Training-Research Techno-Park until 2018, implemented by Uzbekistan’s light-industry…
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Central Asia
Chevron Announces Expansion of Kazakh Oil Project
Chevron has announced a $36.8 billion expansion of the Tengiz oil project in Kazakhstan, RFERL reports. The U.S. oil giant said in a July 5 statement that the expansion will increase crude production by 260,000 barrels a day to reach about 1 million barrels a day. The first oil from…
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East Asia
South China Sea arbitration abuses international law, threatens world order
Zhong Sheng, People’s Daily – A seminar on the South China Sea Arbitration and International Rule of Law was held on July 3 in the Hague, the location of the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s arbitral tribunal. At the seminar hosted by both Chinese and Dutch academic institutions, experts from various countries…
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East Asia
Chinese Ambassador Liu Xiaoming: China Is Not Trying to ‘Rule the Waves’
By Baiyang from People’s Daily – On 23 June 2016, the World Post website published an article entitled China Is Not Trying to ‘Rule the Waves’ by Liu Xiaoming, Chinese Ambassador to the UK. The full text is as follows: “Rule, Britannia! Rule the waves!” This was the patriotic chant of…
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East Asia
South China Sea arbitration to have negative impact on international rule of law
Pei Guangjiang, Hu Zexi and Xu Liqun from People’s Daily – Some 30 international law experts gathered at Hague on Sunday for a seminar in which many have voiced their doubts and concerns over the negative impact that the South China Sea arbitration will bring to the rule of law at the…
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East Asia
South China Sea arbitration nothing more than a political farce
People’s Daily, Zhong Sheng – The South China Sea arbitral tribunal, which was established under the unilateral request of the Philippines, announced on Wednesday that it will deliver the so-called “final verdict” on July 12. Such propaganda for an arbitral tribunal with no legal validity not only exposes its treacherous intention…
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West Asia
340 news websites banned, access to 3,000 links blocked in one year
Since June 7, 2015, 340 news websites were banned while access to around 3,000 links was blocked in a year as part of the government-initiated crackdown on media, Turkish Minute cites the Yeni Hayat daily report. Access to tens of dailies’ websites as well as other online news portals is systematically…
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Central Asia
Turkey to open Incirlik base to Russia
Turkey may open its Incirlik airbase to Russia, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, during an interview to TRT channel. One area of cooperation with Russia is the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria, Cavusoglu said. “We’ll cooperate with everybody against the militant group,” the Foreign Minister noted. “We…
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South East Asia
Struggle to Realize His Dreams
Photographs by Thomas Tham Joo Kit Empowering Lives Asia : www.facebook.com/ELA.CIP Once introduced as a Malaysian humanitarian photographer in the last May issue, Thomas Tham Joo Kit is an NGO activist/photographer taking Asian children’s photos as they are. ‘Empowering Lives Asia’(ELA) is one of the Non-Profit Social groups where he…
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