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South Asia
Afghan refugees shear wool off the sheep in suburban Islamabad
A Afghan refugee man holds a sheep while another uses a scissor to shear the wool off the sheep, in a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, April 22, 2013. Pakistan hosts over 1.6 million registered Afghans, the largest and most protracted refugee population in the world, according…
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Central Asia
A Russian bartender makes cocktail during International Pub Festival
A bartender mixes a glass of cocktail for visitors during the International Pub Festival in Moscow, capital of Russia, on April 23, 2013. The three-day pub festival, which includes pub appliance show and competitions for bartenders and hookah, kicked off on Tuesday in Moscow. A staff (L) smokes hookah during…
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East Asia
Chinese villagers plough fields at pig farm demolished for clean water
Villagers plough the fields at the site of a pig farm after it was demolished at Liujin Village of Dahu Township in Fuzhou City, capital of southeast China’s Fujian Province. As an effort to clean the water source, the neighboring livestock and poultry farms have been relocated or demolished. Villagers…
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West Asia
An Afghan refugee tailor works at temporary home in suburban Kabul
An Afghan refugee tailor works at her temporary home on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 21, 2013. An Afghan refugee child look from window of her temporary home on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 21, 2013. <AP Photo/Rahmat Gul>
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South Asia
Death toll in Bangladeshi building collapse rises to 275
Bangladeshi authorities say 275 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the country’s worst ever disaster for its notoriously unsafe garment industry. Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Siddiqul Alam Shikder, who is overseeing rescue operations, said Friday morning that 61 survivors have been rescued since…
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South Asia
Malala supports football match for ‘peace’ initiative
A ‘peace’ football match, launched by Pakistani student activist Malala Yousafzai who was shot by the Taliban while defending the right to women’s education, has been organized for coming September, Saudi-run Television broadcaster Al Arabiya reports. Kashif Siddiqi, a British-born Pakistani footballer and co-founder of ‘Football for Peace’ which supports…
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East Asia
Exile Tibetan monks carry portraits of self-immolators in candlelit protest
Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks carry portraits of Tibetan self-immolators and of their religious leader Panchen Lama during a candlelit protest gathering in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Reports say three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have…
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East Asia
N. Korean soldiers take photo at Kumsusan Palace in Pyongyang
North Korean soldiers pose for souvenir photos as they tour the grounds of Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, in Pyongyang on Thursday, April 25, 2013. North Korean soldiers and civilians pose for…
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South East Asia
Myanmarese look at posters of death bodies allegedly killed by Muslims
Visitors to the Ma Soe Yein monastery gather to look at posters displaying the “969” logo, right, photos of dead bodies – allegedly Buddhists killed by Muslims, center, and detained illegal Bangladeshi nationals, left, outside the office of Buddhist monk Wirathu in Mandalay, Myanmar on March 28, 2013. 969 began…
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South East Asia
Indonesia’s low-cost carrier Lion Air launches full-service Batik Air
Two airline stewardesses pose for photos with a jetliner of Indonesian airline Batik Air, a subsidiary of Lion Air, at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Indonesia, April 25, 2013. Indonesia’s largest low-cost carrier Lion Air launched its full-service subcompany Batik Air on Thursday with an airline between Jakarta and Manado.…
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