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South Asia
Pakistan Deluge: Disaster, but more than natural
By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: No doubt the unprecedented torrential rains that lashed the country continuously for over two months were a natural disaster but the way the millions of Pakistanis were devastated was in fact an unnatural disaster caused by the human acts of omission and commission.…
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East Asia
Baku: Creative meeting with Ashraf Aboul-Yazid
By Eldar Akhadov BAKU: A meeting was held at the Russian House on September 17 with the famous Egyptian poet and writer Ashraf Aboul-Yazid and Co-Chairman of the Literary Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Eurasia (ANE), honorary member of the Writers’ Union of Azerbaijan, Russian writer Eldar Akhadov.…
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Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan presidents discuss tense border situation, agree on demarcation action
Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Zhaparov and Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon (Kabar) holding talks in Samarkand BISHKEK: A cease-fire appeared remains shaky in the restive border area between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan where reportedly almost half of the 970-kilometer Kyrgyz-Tajik border has yet to be demarcated. However, high hopes for full cease-fire and…
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East Asia
Metropolitan Busan: South Korea’s main gate to the outside world
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL, GERMANY: Busan is considered one of South Korea’s most important metropolitan areas and a source of pride for every South Korean as it is South Korea’s premier commercial port and gateway to the outside world. It is one of South Korea’s closest cities to Japan.…
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South Asia
Torrential rains devastate Pakistan as hundreds reported killed
By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: As the power-hungry politicians of ruling and opposition parties of Pakistan remained ‘busy’ in political intrigues neglecting the miseries of the masses, the five spells of torrential rains that started in first week of July, have caused flash floods in urban as well as…
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South East Asia
The invasion of Ukraine by its larger neighbour
By Ivan Lim, Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: The world reacted with outrage when Vladirmir Putin sent Russian tanks and troops into Ukraine in a so-called special military operation to subdue a sovereign state that was bent on allying with the United States-backed European economic and military bloc.…
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South Asia
Pakistan: Uncertain Past, Uncertain Future
By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: “Pakistan is passing through critical times’ and we have to take tough decisions to steer the country out of crisis” – this is what almost all the successive civil and military rulers used to say after coming into power, for over seven decades…
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East Asia
Publication Party of a Mongolian senior politician’s book ‘Cradle Hidden in the Meadow’
The publication party of a book ‘Cradle Hidden in the Meadow,’ which encompasses life and philosophy of Mr. Terbishdagva, who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Mongolian ambassador of East Germany, will be held at the Great Conference Hall of the National Assembly Building on June 13th. This publication party…
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East Asia
AJA mourns Nasir Yusoff, Bernama managing editor
SEOUL: Asia Journalists Association (AJA) mourned Malaysian journalist Mohamad Nasir Yusoff who passed in Kuala Lumpur. He was 62. Nasir, the former managing editor of the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama), died as he arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport from Miri, Sarawak, where he spent the Eid holidays with…
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East Asia
AJA member Nasir Yusoff passes away
By Habib Toumi BAHRAIN: I last spoke with Nasir Yusoff on May 4. He was in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia, and I was in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. He told me about how happy he was to be reunited with his extended family in their root village about 1,400 kilometers…
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