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Number of visitors to Lumbini in 2012 increased, but failed to reach target number
KATHMANDU – Nearly 760,000 visitors, including foreign and domestic, visited Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, in western Nepal, during Lumbini Visit Year 2012. The government had targeted to bring one million visitors during the period. Records at the Lumbini Development Trust (LDT) show that the visitors to Lumbini increased…
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East Asia
About disappearing jobs
Books published on different kind of extinction No jobs seem to be permanent. Jobs that flourished once would eventually disappear, leaving behind confounded workers. To shed light on this, in a cultural aspect, the National Folk Museum of Korea has recently published three books featuring jobs – match manufacturing, wall…
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East Asia
An Artisan Shows Traditional Chinese Clay Sculptures Designed With Snake Image In Wuxi City
An artisan decorates the traditional Chinese clay sculptures designed with the snake image in Wuxi City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Jan. 8, 2013. The lunar year 2013 is the “Year of the Snake” in the Chinese zodiac. An artisan shows the traditional Chinese clay sculptures designed with the snake image…
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East Asia
Girls’ Generation redeemed with ‘I Got a Boy’
rriving for a round of press interviews in Apgujeong-dong, Seoul, Tuesday, the members of Girls’ Generation were lovely even in their off-stage, every-day clothes. Sixth year since its debut, the nine girls seemed more maturing girls than the dynamic, rapping powerful dancer/singers in their fourth full-length album “I Got a…
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East Asia
Tom cruise to become honorary Busan citizen
Hollywood star Tom Cruise is becoming an honorary citizen of Busan, city officials said Tuesday. The actor, who will be in the southern port city this week to promote action movie “Jack Reacher,” will be awarded a certificate of honorary citizenship by Busan Mayor Hur Nam-sik at the Busan Cinema…
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West Asia
“Kharabeesh,” a maker of sarcastic cartoons, becomes conspicuous with Arab Spring
After the internet became the source for any scoop and websites like Facebook and Twitter became more into journalism than into socializing. It was only ordinary when cartoons turn into one of the ways to express your opinion, maybe it’s the strongest way. “Kharabeesh” or more accurately “Kharabeesh Toon” became…
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East Asia
Actress Bae Doona proud of her roles in ‘Cloud Atlas’
South Korean actress Bae Doona’s filmography is full of names of celebrated directors — Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Hirokazu Koreeda, the Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer. Unlike other fashion model-turned actresses, she wasn’t bothered by playing an insensitive apartment management worker in a yellow-hooded T-shirt with almost no…
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East Asia
Yang Hae-gue unravels Diaspora at Haus der Kunst in Munich
The year 2012 was a splendorous year for Seoul- and Berlin-based Yang Hae-gue. She participated in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany and Urdaibai Art Biennale in Spain and presented “Dress Vehicles” at the newly opened Tanks at Tate Modern in London. In November, Yang unveiled a new piece “Accommodating the…
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South East Asia
Red Lanterns Decorated In Thean Hou Temple In Kuala Lumpur
Red lanterns are seen in Thean Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, on Jan. 7, 2013. Visitors walk pass red lanterns in Thean Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, on Jan. 7, 2013. <Xinhua/Chong Voon Chung>
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South Asia
Thousands Of Indians Play Traditional Instrument To Create A Guinness Record
Indians wearing traditional Assamese attire play the khol, a traditional percussion instrument of Assam, in an attempt to create a Guinness record, in Titabar, about 350 kilometers (219 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. A total of 14,833 people participated in the event, according to officials. A…
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