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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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West Asia
Officers foil attempts to smuggle 730 kg drugs into Kuwait
KUWAIT: Customs officers seized nearly 730 kilograms of drugs that were on their way to be smuggled into Kuwait. Officers were able to stop a boat making its way into the territorial waters towards Kubbar Island, a sandy island around 30 kilometers off the southern coast of Kuwait. The officers…
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Central Asia
The Burana Tower: A fascinating history of grandeur in Kyrgyzstan
By Habib Toumi BISHKEK: In the interpretation of dreams, climbing spiral stairs is a sign that you are on the right path to spiritual growth and that good things that are coming your way. That hopeful interpretation may be great, but right now I am in a dark place, trying…
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East Asia
Seoul seeking a place among World’s five top tourism cities
SEOUL: As I was walking across the majestic Incheon Airport in Seoul, impressed with its imposing structure, my mind raced to a paragraph I read in Bill Clinton’s book My life. “In Seoul, Hillary and I were the guests of President Kim Yong-Sam in the official guest residence, which had…
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South Asia
3 Chinese, their driver killed in bomb attack in Pakistan’s coastal city Karachi
By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: Four people, including three Chinese nationals, were killed while several others sustained injuries in a van explosion in the premises of the University of Karachi in the Southern Sindh province. The explosion occurred at 1:52p.m in a van near the Confucius Institute —…
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East Asia
The Three Musketeers Journey from France to Korea by car
We know that travel has seven benefits, but today we will present to you a meeting with three Musketeers, half of whom are from South Korea and the other half from France. They live a stable life in France, but nostalgia knocked on their doors and they were missing so…
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South Asia
“An Afternoon in My Mind”, a beautiful juxtaposition of serene and dramatic images
‘An Afternoon in My Mind’ by Sonnet Mondal Reviewed by Sarbari A. Basu Seventy-five poems in Sonnet Mondal’s latest collection, “An Afternoon in My Mind,” are pleasant and resonant to the reader—we find the physical manifestation of wordplay: tone, serene rhythm, melody, and particularly flashes of vivid imagery. On the…
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