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East Asia
Be wary of the ‘Seikanron’ descendants
Joint Project between the Northeast Asian History Foundation and The AsiaN *Editor’s Note: Security in East Asia is swaying in a rough sea. North Korea’s nuclear crisis has been highly elated amid existing territorial disputes and deep-rooted conflicts between nations in the region. South Korea, China and Japan, the countries…
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East Asia
Journalists inspect Fukushima nuclear power plant harmed by tsunami
Members of the media wearing protective suits and masks are escorted by TEPCO employees while walking near the building housing the plant’s No. 4 reactor, center, and an under construction foundation which will store the reactor’s melted fuel rods at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in…
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East Asia
NK soldiers under training amid a threat to cancel 1953 cease-fire in Pyongyang
Soldiers of Kim Il Sung Military University perform military training on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea’s military is vowing to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, straining already frayed ties between Washington and Pyongyang as the United Nations moves to impose punishing…
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South Asia
Members of a Nepal Maoist faction stage anti-gov’t protest in Katmandu
Members of the splinter faction of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist shout slogans against the government during a general strike Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The strike called to protest the decision to form an interim government led by the Supreme Court chief justice disrupted normal life…
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South Asia
Pakistani arts students take part in a street painting competition in Lahore
Pakistani students paint a wall along a street in eastern Pakistan’s Lahore, March 6, 2013. More than 200 art students and youths participated in a street art painting competition run by a local youth organization with the aim of improving the city vista. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Sajjad>
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West Asia
A growing number of Syrians seek refuges in Turkey due to gov’t airstrike
In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 file photo, Syrian refugees, who fled their home in Idlib due to a government airstrike, look out of a vehicle’s window just after crossing the border from Syria to Turkey, in Cilvegozu, Turkey. Turkey is home to nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees in camps, with…
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South Asia
An Indian woman works as porter, a man’s job, at Bhavnagar railway station
An Indian woman working as a porter, traditionally a man’s job in India, transports the luggage of a passenger at the Bhavnagar railway station in Gujarat state, India, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Bhavnagar’s tradition of women porters began in 1880 when the King of Bhavnagar, Krishna Pratapsingh, decided to employ…
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East Asia
Kimono-clad models help Tokyo win its bid to host the 2020 Olympics
Kimono-clad models wait for the arrival of International Olympic Committee Vice President Craig Reedie of Britain at the Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The IOC’s evaluation commission is currently on a four-day inspection of Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Shizuo Kambayashi>
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East Asia
Chinese new leadership walk to attend opening session of NPC at Great Hall of People in Beijing
In this photo provided by China’s Xinhua News Agency, Chinese leaders, from left in front row, Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Jia Qinglin, Chairman of the National People’s Congress Wu Bangguo, President Hu Jintao, Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice Premier…
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East Asia
Young women begin wearing spring clothing as it gets warm in Nanjing, China
Combo photo taken on March 5, 2013, shows young women wearing spring clothing as temperature rises in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Li Xiang>
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