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South Asia
Naked Hindu Holy Men Talk Ahead Of Maha Kumbh Festival In Allahabad, India
Naked Hindu holy men, or a Naga Sadhus, talk in their camp after arriving at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, ahead of the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, Sunday Jan. 13, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in the…
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West Asia
Some 4.2 Million Afghan Children Have No access To School Due To Poverty
Seven-year-old Sami Allah plays with his fridens near his home in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 13, 2013. More than 8.4 million Afghan children, of whom 39 percent are girls, presently attend school, while 4.2 million others have no access to school mainly due to security reasons and poverty. Sami Allah,…
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South Asia
Ashraf’s novels studied in way of fictional narration at University Of Calicut, India
“The Poetic Discourse of the fictional narration in Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s Novels” is the title approved by University of Calicut for Mrs. Sabeena K. to study to works of the Egyptian poet and novelist Ashraf Aboul-Yazid. The topic was approved in April 26th. 2012, under the supervising of Dr. Moideenkutty A.B.…
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East Asia
Taiwanese Protest Against Policies Of China-Friendly President Ma In Taipei
Taiwanese women wear wedding dress and hold slogan reading “No money to marry. Super indignation!” in protest against the polices of Taiwan’s China-friendly President Ma Ying-jeou in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Tens of thousands of opposition demonstrators took to the streets of Taipei in the largest anti-government action…
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South Asia
Nepali journalists stand up against gov’t for not punishing Maoists who killed a journalist
KATHMANDU, Jan 13 – Journalists in Nepal have taken to street against Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai for his attempt to halt the investigation into an eight-year-old murder incident and dismiss the case. Led by the Federation of the Nepali Journalists (FNJ), the umbrella organization of the journalists, they have been…
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West Asia
Zina, a young cartoonist, depicts her comics with a “revolutionary” sense
Born in Cairo of Greek-Lebanese parents, taught in Canada, and arrived back to Lebanon, the country of her parents, those aspects made the cosmopolitan profile of the young artist Ms. Pert Zina Mufarrij, the artist who makes Zina Comics, to express herself, and her love, which is not a blind…
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East Asia
61-year-old former lawmaker to become oldest legal trainee
A 61-year-old former lawmaker will become the oldest trainee to join the training required for those who passed the state-run bar exam after the military government in the 1980s disqualified him from it. Chung Chin-sup, once a two-term lawmaker of the ruling Saenuri Party, will begin a two-year training course…
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East Asia
Will the US Pivot Trigger a New Regional Arms Race?
*Author, Richard A. Bitzinger is Senior Fellow with the Military Transformations Program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Formerly with the RAND Corp. and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, he has been writing on Asian defense and military issues for more…
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Big firms toe line on Park’s pro-labor calls
Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor and Ssangyong Motor are toeing the line set by President-elect Park Geun-hye regarding labor relations. Samsung has recently proposed to hold negotiations with an advocacy group representing families of employees who died from what it says were industry-induced diseases. On Thursday, Ssangyong Motor agreed to reinstate…
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Chinese envoy backs Park’s NK approach
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said Friday he supported President-elect Park Geun-hye’s “trust building” approach to Pyongyang, calling it a “very good idea.” “The chronic disease with regard to issues of the Korean Peninsula is a lack of trust,” Zhang said during a forum for businesspeople. “When you are…
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