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Lifestyle
Champ Galatasaray laughs last and loudest
ISTANBULㅡ The 2011-12 Spor Toto Super League season is over for good after Galatasaray was crowned champion at Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium in Kadıköy, home of eternal rival Fenerbahçe, on Saturday following a 0-0 draw by both teams in the week-six finale of the inaugural Super Final. Fenerbahçe, or the Yellow Canaries,…
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Politics
A host of economic challengies agonize Syria
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to the media at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, April 19, 2012. Ban said here Thursday that the situation in Syria remains highly precarious, and he looks forward to an early action by the UN Security Council on his proposed expansion…
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Politics
Joint statement issued after trilateral summit meeting
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, center, President of the Republic of Korea Lee Myung-bak, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda attend the Fifth Trilateral Summit Meeting among China, ROK and Japan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, May 13, 2012. <Xinhua/Huang Jingwen> BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua)…
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South Asia
Anti-Israel Rally Going Violent
A Pakistani Shiite Muslim protestor falls over a fire, while pouring gasoline on representations of US and Israeli flags, during an anti-Israel rally and in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, May 13, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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IT-Science
Future iPhones may bend, twist
Future versions of Apple’s iPhone, the definitive mobile device credited for taking the Internet beyond the personal computer, might bend and twist. At least that seemed to be what Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun was hinting at when he revealed that the company is getting “huge’’ orders from electronics…
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Lifestyle
Kuwaiti painter seeks to expose social contradictions
*Editor’s note: This is the second installment of six-part stories about six Arab women artists devoting themselves to creating different style of art and innovating their methods of expression for “revolutionary” change. Ghada Alkandari “A Pretty Green Bullet” “My name is Ghada Alkandari, an artist and ambitious blogger from Kuwait. I only realized that when I started my…
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Column
A Singaporean temple goes ahead in practicing green energy
Spiritual food for the soul is what you get when you visit any Buddhist shrine in Asia … until you step into the Poh Ern Shih (Temple of Thanksgiving) in Singapore. There, you will receive something more, something scientific and enlightening too. At this Chinese-style Mahayan shrine, devotees come and…
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Lifestyle
Exhibition explores royal life of Istanbul
Turkey and Korea are located on opposite sides of the globe, but the two nations have managed to forge close ties in the past half a century. Diplomatic relations began after Turkey provided crucial military support during the Korean War (1950-1953), and the bond remains strong to this day. An…
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Column
Pakistani brick-making workers suffer inhumane treatment
Mud bricks and fire-baked bricks are used in construction across Pakistan except Karachi, the biggest city of the country located at Arabian Sea Coast in South where the buildings are erected using concrete blocks. The mud bricks and fire-baked bricks are traditionally used since ancient days in this region as…
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Society
Indonesian taekwondo athletes aim four golds
Harsono Danie, an Indonesian Taekwondo player, performs ‘Kumgang Pumsae’ during 6th International Taekwondo Pumsae Competition at Olympiat stadium in Vladivostok, Russia, Jul 30, 2011. <File Photo> JAKARTA, May 11 (Xinhua) — Indonesian taekwondo competitors are expecting to grab four gold medals during the International Islamic Solidarity Games (ISG) in Riau…
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