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Kazakh expats on a cycling tour to promote Astana Expo 2017
Kazakhstan expats cycle 513km from Busan to Seoul during the Chuseok (Korean thanksgiving) holiday in order to promote Kazakhstan Astana Expo 2017. Daniyar Aitkulov, 25, and Meruert Zhakupova, 30, completed the full journey while Darya Umbina, 25, joined in the Seoul area due to spinal pains. Aitkulov organized this cycling…
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Population crisis in Afghan slums
Urban slums describe parts of cities where living conditions are very poor. The number of slum dwellers in the developing world has risen from 767 million in the year 2000 to an estimated 828 million in 2010 according to UN HABITAT in 2011. This has resulted in a lack of…
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South Asia
Pakistan, a nation hostage to criminals
The entire Pakistani nation is virtually hostage to terrorists, kidnappers, killers and other criminals, as the number of crimes including heinous crimes like murders, kidnapping for ransom, highway robberies, bank robberies, rape, gang-rape, extortion, car and bike theft and snatching, shooting dead for a mobile phone and other street crimes…
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Central Asia
Afghan presidential election race kicks off with candidate nominations
Afghanistan’s presidential race kicked off Monday as election authorities began accepting the nominations of would-be candidates, the start of a wide-open race whose winner will oversee the final phases of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops amid a relentless Taliban insurgency. The election, set for April 5, will determine who succeeds…
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East Asia
Understanding S. Korea’s ‘386 generation’ and pro-north activists
As all our readers are surely aware, South Korea is now in the middle of yet another political scandal. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) recently produced evidence that seemingly indicates that Lee Seok Ki, a member of parliament from the far-left United Progressive Party, was engaged in conspiracy and was…
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South East Asia
Cambodian King urges opposition protestors, police to end violence
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday called on opposition protestors and police to stop using violence against each other after a clash on Sunday night left one protester dead and several others injured. “I would like to beg all compatriots who are the protestors and the authorities to stop using…
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West Asia
UN report confirms use of sarin gas in Syria’s chemical weapons attacks
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday received the report from the UN fact-finding group on the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria. He will brief the UN Security Council on the findings Monday morning, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here Sunday. “The report by the United Nations Mission…
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South Asia
India sucessfully retests missile that can reach Chinese cities like Shanghai
India successfully test-fired for the second time a nuclear-capable missile that can strike the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai, officials said. Ravi Gupta, a spokesman for the Defence Research and Development Organisation, said the latest test of the Agni-V brought the missile a step closer to being inducted…
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East Asia
Halal food displayed at China-Arab Expo helps China explore market
Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is showing its ambition ahead of Sunday’s China-Arab States Expo, to build itself into a global halal food center. The government of Wuzhong City, the home of Islamic Hui ethnic group, is building a halal industrial park to integrate research, design, manufacture, processing and trade…
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East Asia
Ashraf Dali talks Korean trip on TV
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid(Dali), President of the Asia Journalist Association Middle East Chapter and Editor-in-Chief of The AsiaN, was interviewed live in two Egyptian TV programs on September 23. During those programs, he talked about the activities in the recent visits to S. Korea and Tatarstan along with his new books published…
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