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East Asia
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.…
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West Asia
16 Lebanese soldiers killed in battle against Sunni radicals
Lebanon’s army seized Monday a leading Sunni cleric’s headquarters in a southern city and arrested a number of his gunmen in an operation that left 16 soldiers killed, a security source said. The army stormed the headquarters located in the Abra suburb of Sidon city while Sheikh Ahmed Al Assir…
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South Asia
Pakistan’s PM Sharif to pursue high treason case against former President
Image released by Pakistan’s Press Information Department (PID) shows Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif adressing the parliament in Islamabad on June 24, 2013. Nawaz Sharif Monday announced that his government will pursue high treason case against former military President Pervez Musharraf in the Supreme Court for abrogating the country’s constitution…
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West Asia
Iraqis worship at Shabaniyah festival marking birth of Hidden Imam
Shiite Muslim worshippers gather at the holy shrine of Imam Abbas during the annual festival of Shabaniyah, which marks the anniversary of the birth of the ninth-century Shiite leader known as the Hidden Imam, in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 24, 2013. <AP Photo/…
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West Asia
Qatar’s Emir Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani hands power over to his son
March 26, 2013 file photo, Emir of Qatar Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, center, attends the opening session of the Arab League Summit in Doha. Qatar’s emir moves to hand power over to his son, aiming to bring a youthful new face to rule in a tiny Gulf nation…
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South Asia
Bangladeshi women hold photo of relatives missing at building collapse
A Bangladeshi woman cries holding a paper with a photograph of her missing relative as she pleads for help and demands compensation for the dead and missing workers of a garment factory building collapse, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, June 24, 2013. Relatives of the victims of the Rana…
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South East Asia
Filipino children dance in celebration of St. John the Baptist water festival
Schoolchildren dance as they are sprayed with water by a fireman during celebration of the Feast of St. John The Baptist at suburban San Juan, east of Manila, Philippines Monday June 24, 2013. The water festival is celebrated in almost all of the townships in the country whose patron saint…
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South East Asia
Malaysia declares emergency state for haze caused by Indonesia’s forest fire
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono apologized Monday to Singapore and Malaysia for record-setting pollution caused by forest fires in his country. “For what is happening, as the president, I apologize to our brothers in Singapore and Malaysia,” Yudhoyono said. He asked for their understanding and said Indonesia is working hard…
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Central Asia
A liger licks her one-month-old liliger cub at Novosibirsk Zoo, Russia
In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo Zita, a liger, half-lioness, half-tiger, licks her one month old liliger cub in the Novosibirsk Zoo. The cub’s father is a lion, Sam. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Ilnar Salakhiev> In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo, a month-old liliger cub walks in Novosibirsk Zoo. The cub’s…
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South Asia
Pakistani people condemn Taliban for killing 10 foreign tourists
Islamic militants disguised as policemen killed 10 foreign climbers and a Pakistani guide in a brazen overnight raid against their campsite at the base of one of the world’s tallest mountains in northern Pakistan, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed it carried out the attack at Nanga Parbat to avenge…
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