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Politics
The ABCs of Sustainable Development Goals and Sudan’s situation XIV
Goal 13: Climate Action By Dr. Hassan Humeida Kiel, Germany: KIEL, GERMANY: The importance of the 13th goal, “Climate Action” of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals related to the state of the planet and its future, comes at a time when global climate change is considered the greatest challenge…
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South Asia
Shehbaz Sharif elected as 24th Prime Minister of Pakistan
By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: The ‘Hung Parliament’ of Pakistan, which came into being as a result of highly disputed General Elections held on February 8, 2024, elected Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif as the 24th Prime Minister of the country on Sunday March 3, 2024. Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz…
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Society
“Kembara Satun-Hatyai 2024” strengthens relationship among Muslims in Malaysia, Thailand
By Norila Daud KUALA LUMPUR: Rohaya Mustapa, muslimat representative of Surau As-Siddiq hands over donations and gifts to asnaf groups at Kampung Tanjung Pao Mosque in Satun, Thailand recently. As a symbol of “ukhwah” (fraternity) and good neighbourly relationship, a group of 22 muslim ladies representing Bandar Tun Hussein Onn,…
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Politics
China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway: start of construction in 2024?
By Kuban Andymen BISHKEK: On December 28, 2023, the head of Kyrgyzstan’s National Investment Agency announced the commencement of the construction of the “China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan” railway in 2024. This railway is intended to be a crucial part of the new Eurasian railway corridor, as stated in a material by Boris Kushkov,…
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Business
The ABCs of Sustainable Development Goals and Sudan’s situation XIII
Goal 12: Ensuring responsible consumption and production By Dr. Hassan Humeida Kiel, Germany: The twelfth goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals until 2030 seeks to create a balance between consumption and production on a global scale. This is happening in an era in which people’s need for essential…
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Society
Miracle of music from Africa to Iran, from Iran to India
By Alireza Bahrami TEHRAN: More than half a century ago, a man in the south of Iran sang a local song. This song referred to the people who came to Iran from the African island of Zanzibar several centuries ago. A few years later, an Iranian pop singer sang this…
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Culture
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s new Poetry Anthology
By Gioia Lomasti Poet, translator and editor, Italy ROME: Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Ashraf Dali), Egypt, is President, Asia Journalist Association (AJA), since April 2016, Editor in Chief, THE SILK ROAD LITERATURE SERIES, a member of Egyptian Writers Union, and the National Coordinator of World Poetry Movement (WPM) in Egypt. He was awrded the Manhae…
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Politics
Indonesians should wait for final vote-counting results: President
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has urged Indonesians to wait for the final results of the voting counting of the 2024 Presidential Election currently handled by the General Elections Commission (KPU). Jokowi’s remarks were conveyed in response to quick count results from several survey agencies published on Wednesday (February 14)…
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Culture
New perspective on modern African literature and its contribution to global cultural mosaic
By Margarita Al, President of the World Organization of Writers “WOW” CAIRO: On February 2, 2023, in Cairo, Egypt, Nigerian writer Wale Okediran was announced as the laureate of the 6th Open Eurasian Literature Festival (LitFest-2023). According to the contest rules, the laureate receives the opportunity to participate in the…
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Business
Future of business media highlighted at WAM roundtable
DUBAI: Media has a major role in promoting future business concepts and conveying them to the public effectively, the head of the Emirates News Agency (WAM) has said. “The media sector is seeing remarkable progress in keeping with global technological developments, with the emergence of new technologies in media work…
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