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South Asia
Nepal’s former minister is now rearing pigs
Kathmandu – Former Minister Shiva Raj Joshi who spent almost 15 years at the Singh Durbar, the central secretariat of the Nepal government, as a parliamentarian and a minister, is now spending his day at a piggery in a village of south-west Nepal. Accustomed to putting signatures on the piles of…
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East Asia
Knowledge collaboration: Indonesian students in Korea to hold conference
Indonesian Students Association in Korea (PERPIKA) this year presents Conference of Indonesian Students in Korea (Cisak) the 6th. Cisak 2013 will be held in Daejon, South Korea on July 7. Students, academics and practitioners from around the world are invited to attend the conference which is also a Research Paper…
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West Asia
Yemeni boy washes blanket in polluted water on International Earth Day
A Yemeni boy washes his blanket in polluted water, at a slum area on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, April 22, 2013. Hundreds of countries globally, mark International Earth Day on April 22, to help raise ecological awareness and support environmental protection. A Yemeni boy stands in the middle…
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East Asia
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional official meets widow of Koo Chen-fu
Peng Qinghua (L), secretary of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China, pays a visit to Koo Yen Cho-yun, wife of the late Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman Koo Chen-fu in Taipei, southeast China’s Taiwan, April 22, 2013. <Xinhua/Xiong Hongming>
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South Asia
Bhutanese officials check voting machines for parliamentary election
A polling official in traditional attire accompanied by Royal Bhutan Army soldiers carrying electronic voting machines arrives at a polling center on the eve of polling to the upper house National Council in Samdrup Jonkhar, Bhutan, Monday, April 22, 2013. The small Himalayan country of Bhutan ended more than a…
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South Asia
Sri Lankan activists protest steep rise in electricity charges
Activists of Sri Lanka’s Marxist political party People’s Liberation Front shout slogans as they protest the steep rise in electricity charges in Maharagama, a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, April 22, 2013. Placards in Sinhalese read “Entertainment for rulers and Bill for the people”. <AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena>
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Society
A monk prays for victims of Boston bombings at makeshift memorial
A man prays at a memorial for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Boylston Street near the race finish line, Monday, April 22, 2013, in Boston, Mass. At 2:50 p.m., exactly one week after the bombings, many bowed their heads and cried at the makeshift memorial on Boylston…
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East Asia
Chinese factory fishing ship in flames off coast of Antarctica
In this picture taken on Friday, April 19, 2013, released by Chile’s Air Force, Chinese factory fishing ship Kai Xin burnt just off the coast of Antarctica. Chile’s navy said on Monday that Chinese factory fishing ship that caught fire last week off Antarctica has sunk without anyone on board,…
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East Asia
IAEA holds press conference about Fukushima Daiichi disaster
Juan Carlos Lentijo, mission leader of review mission from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) attends a press conference in Tokyo April 22, 2013. <Xinhua/Kenichiro Seki>
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West Asia
Palestinians call for the release of their Israel-held relatives
Relatives of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails take part in a protest calling for the release of prisoners in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on April 22, 2013. Around 4,900 Palestinians are held in Israeli jails. <Xinhua/Luay Sababa>
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