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West Asia

Climate change: Appreciating Ban-Ki moon’s warning as he calls for protecting Earth

Ban-Ki moon warning against complacency, calling for action to protect Earth By Habib Toumi Bahrain: Ban-Ki moon’s stern warning that there is only one earth and as such, people have no alternative but to protect it and preserve it should be taken very seriously. In his keynote speech at the…
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East Asia

Lee O-young: We must inform the world about the proud fusion culture of the Korean Peninsula

Lee Sang-ki:This is an interview conducted in April 2007 with Lee O-young, Korea’s leading scholar and of the most intelligent people of his time who has passed away after a battle with cancer. The interview was conducted while he was at the Hankyoreh. He returned to Christianity after losing his…
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South Asia

Pakistan – A Country of Particular Concern!

By Nasir Aijaz AsiaN Representative Islamabad: Certain gruesome incidents of murders and such other kind of persecution of religious minorities on the pretext of blasphemy allegations, having taken place with a sequence within last nine days, are perhaps enough to supplement the recommendation of United States Commission on International Religious…
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South Asia

Bomb blast kills 3, injures 26 in Pakistan

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative Islamabad: At least three people, including a child, were killed while 26 others sustained injuries in an explosion in Lahore, the capital city of Pakistan on Thursday. The blast occurred in Lohari Chowk (Roundabout)) of New Anarkali area, one of the busiest markets of the…
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South Asia

Pakistan: Young woman sentenced to death under blasphemy law

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative Islamabad: A local court in Rawalpindi city of Punjab province awarded death sentence to a young Muslim woman for promoting blasphemous content on social media. The court ordered that the woman be “hanged by her neck till she is dead”. This is first…
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Central Asia

Created 30 years ago, CSTO steps out for the first time in Kazakhstan

By Habib Toumi Manama: As the events were unfolding dramatically in Kazakhstan, a new actor with a major role made its first appearance since it was created 30 years ago: The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO). It was the first time that the CSTO agreed to send “peacekeepers”, a clear…
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South East Asia

Safeguard yourselves against Covid-19, government tells Singaporeans

By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: “YOU are on your own, lookout” That’s the new order of the day as Singapore pushes ahead as one of the first Covidean states to pivot towards living with the Coronavirus. Since late September, the city-state of 5.45 million has gone…
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South Asia

Pakistan plunges into political and economic crisis

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative KARACHI: The political and economic chaos in Pakistan is deepening with every passing day due to the perpetual mismanagement and wrong policies of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government. The opposition parties have taken to the streets to dislodge the Prime Minister Imran Khan, the…
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South Asia

UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme administers 583 million doses of polio vaccine to over 102 million children in Pakistan

ABU DHABI: The UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme (UAE PAP) said that the UAE Polio Vaccination Campaign has administered 583,240,876 doses of vaccination against polio for more than 102 million Pakistani children The figures cover the campaign from 2014 to September 2021, the UAE PAP said. The campaign, in line with…
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West Asia

Four people killed in Saudi Arabia mountain accident

RIYADH: Four people were killed in Saudi Arabia in a freak accident as they were trying to reach the top of high cliffs known locally as the “Edge of the World.” The cliffs, located 96 kilometers northwest of the capital Riyadh, drop away giving splendid views over the plain below…
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