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South Asia
Jumping Into Water May Be Only Way To Endure 47’C
Beating the Heat: Camera’s eye caught a person jumping from the bridge of a canal in Larkana District, Sindh province of Pakistan, where the temperature has crossed 47.0 degrees centigrade. The canals are closed due to water shortage in Indus river, but the scanty water available in canals offer good opportunity…
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NK calls itself ‘nuclear-armed state’ in revised constitution
North Korea calls itself a “nuclear-armed state” in its recently revised constitution, according to its full text confirmed on Wednesday in the North’s “Naenara” web site. Following December’s death of leader Kim Jong-il, the North has revised its constitution to add three new sentences and one of them contains the…
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Society
2nd ‘Comfort women’ ad placed in NYT
Singer Kim Jang-hoon and freelance Korean publicist Seo Kyoung-duk placed a full-page ad promoting awareness of “comfort women” in Tuesday’s edition of the New York Times. The ad was the second of its kind following one published in March. There were no pictures or images of the comfort women themselves.…
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Culture
Orchestra Performs Requiem To Revive Slashed Budget
The orchestra, choir and soloists of the Chamber Opera that specializes in Mozart’s music perform his Requiem, the Funeral Mass in front Presidential Palace vis a vis of the Culture Ministry in Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 to protest recent cuts in the opera’s budget and to seek…
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World
Egyptians Defy Result Of Presidential Election
An Egyptian protester holds up a shoe with the sole covered in pictures of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, former President Hosni Mubarak, U.S. minister of Foreign affairs Hillary Clinton, and an Israeli flag at Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Overnight, protesters stormed and burned the campaign…
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Society
Chinese VP asks Bill Gates to have close cooperation with China
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met Wednesday (May 30) with Bill Gates, chairman of the Microsoft Corporation where Jinping called for closer cooperation between China and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A statement from the Chinese government observed Jinping and Gates had discussed closer cooperation between China and the Bill & Melinda Gates…
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Society
Density of radioactive remains alarming in Fukushima
The radioactive detector, at right, set up at the flowerbed to measure radioactive density in the Fukushima station shows 6.36 μSv(micro mili siverts) at 9 a.m. Wednesday (May 30) while another detector, at left, installed in eastern Seoul displays 0.17 at the same time. The density of radioactivity in Fukushima…
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East Asia
NK Opera Group In China For Two-Month Long Road-Show
DANDONG, May 29, 2012 (Xinhua) — Singers of the Sea of Blood opera group of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) arrive in Dandong, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, May 28, 2012. A 175-member crew of DPRK’s Sea of Blood opera group arrived in Liaoning’s Dandong City on May 28…
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West Asia
Koffi Annan In Syria: “We Are At A Tipping Point”
In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria. The meeting Tuesday followed a massacre in Houla, Syria, last week in which more than 100 people were killed,…
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West Asia
Bahraini Activist Resumes Activities Soon After Release
Bahraini human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja holds her daughter Jude, 2, as she speaks by phone to a journalist Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at a coffee shop in Abu Saiba, Bahrain, hours after her release from jail. Al-Khawaja spent more than a month in jail on various charges relating to…
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