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South Asia
Pakistani Hindu Devotees Celebrate Diwali Festival By Decorating Their Homes With Lights, Blasting Firecrackers
A Pakistani Hindu girl holds an earthen lamp while decorating an area of her house to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 in Karachi, Pakistan. Hindus across the country are celebrating Diwali, where people decorate their homes with light and set off firecrackers. A Pakistani…
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South East Asia
Number Of Sumatran Tigers Dwindles Rapidly With Fear Of Going Extinct In 21St Century
A Sumatran tiger stands on a tree at a zoo in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. There are only around 250 of the cats left in the wild, compared to about 1,000 in the 1970s, according to the World Wildlife Fund, meaning that the Panthera tigris sumatrae…
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South Asia
Pakistani Paramilitary Vehicle Destroyed By Bomb Planted Roadside In Quetta, Pakistan
A Pakistani soldier stands guard near a damaged paramilitary force’s vehicle at the blast site in Pakistan’s southwest city of Quetta, Nov. 13, 2012. At least two people were killed and about ten others injured when a roadside planted bomb hit a paramilitary force’s vehicle in Quetta on Tuesday afternoon,…
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West Asia
Bahraini Anti-Gov’t Protesters Confont Police By Hurling Petrol Bombs In Muharraq, Bahrain
Riot police seize a crate of petrol bombs prepared by Bahraini anti-government protesters after dispersing participants in a mourning procession for a teenager whose death the opposition blames on police in Muharraq, Bahrain, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. A masked Bahraini anti-government protester carrying petrol bombs confronts riot police firing…
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World
America’s divided dynamism
UNITED NATIONS ― America appears to have crossed the political Rubicon. On the one shore, that of the red states, people are rooted in more traditional values, religion, individualism and entrepreneurialism. On the blue shore, people embrace different often trendier values, cherish political correctness and secularism, often do favor entrepreneurialism,…
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Qualifications of educators
Many, many years ago when I was in undergrad school, my classmates and I would often talk about how the real learning would begin once we graduated and obtained our pieces of paper. We knew that in university we were being taught ideals more than anything else. These ideals did…
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Seoul seeks smoking ban in all public facilities
Smoking may be banned in all restaurants and public facilities in the nation’s capital by 2020, as Seoul City seeks to make the metropolis smoke-free. The city government said Monday that it will seek to ban smoking at all indoor public facilities in an effort to reduce the smoking rate…
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2 testify to Sakhalin massacre by Japanese
The government has secured testimony from two ethnic Koreans living on Sakhalin Island, off Russia’s east coast, that Japanese soldiers massacred Koreans there at the end of World War II. It is the first testimony to provide details of a massacre allegedly perpetrated by the Japanese army on the island,…
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East Asia
First lady submits statement to independent counsel
An independent counsel may bring criminal charges against seven or eight people, including President Lee Myung-bak’s son, for their involvement in a property scandal over a now-scrapped retirement home project for the president, according to sources Tuesday. First lady Kim Yoon-ok turned in a statement over her alleged role in…
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East Asia
Obama to support Seoul’s N. Korea engagement policy
U.S. President Barack Obama is likely to cooperate tightly with the next Seoul administration on efforts toward eventual unification of the peninsula, a former U.S. envoy said Tuesday. The remark from James Steinberg, deputy secretary of state under Obama from 2009 to 2011, came as South Korean presidential candidates say…
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