Education - THE AsiaN

Climate Change: Tajikistan wants 2025 to be “International Year for Preservation of Glaciers”

NICOSIA: Tajikistan has reiterated its call to the United Nations to make 2025 “The International Year for Preservation of Glaciers”. Taking part, alongside 55 countries in the October 5-7 Ministerial Conference in Cyprus on sustainable infrastructure, sustainable tourism, and education for sustainable development. Tajikistan’s delegation outlined its commitment to cooperate…
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Education

Singapore set to repeal homosexual law

By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: A contentious decades-old law that criminalises sex between men but not women will be axed as the Singapore authorities found it increasingly legally untenable in the face of challenges to its constitutionality. The repeal of Section 377A of the Penal…
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East Asia

Metropolitan Busan: South Korea’s main gate to the outside world

By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL, GERMANY: Busan is considered one of South Korea’s most important metropolitan areas and a source of pride for every South Korean as it is South Korea’s premier commercial port and gateway to the outside world. It is one of South Korea’s closest cities to Japan.…
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Society

Mehran of Sindh and Iran

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative in Pakistan Karachi: My friend Col. (R) Hassan Imam and I are nostalgic beings, as whenever we had a conversation on the phone, we used to talk of past stories related to history, heritage, culture, language and the people of Sindh. Laughingly, he often says…
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South Asia

Torrential rains devastate Pakistan as hundreds reported killed

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: As the power-hungry politicians of ruling and opposition parties of Pakistan remained ‘busy’ in political intrigues neglecting the miseries of the masses, the five spells of torrential rains that started in first week of July, have caused flash floods in urban as well as…
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Education

GCS Malaysia hosts special lecture on ‘Beauty Ear Therapy’ for Korean Society members

By Seok-Jae Kang Asia Journalists Association Vice President KUALA LUMPUR: The GCS International Malaysia Chapter hosted an online special lecture on “Beauty Ear Therapy” for the members of the Korean Society in Malaysia on August 18, 2022. Under the title “Ear Tells Your Health,” the one-hour-long special lecture was given to…
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Society

Toyin Falola Interview Series: Rethinking African Literature in Modern Era

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid CAIRO: Various African governments have been called upon to create the needed environment for African literature to thrive so as to ensure that the fight against terrorism and the fostering of unity on the African continent can be achieved, just as this would aid the better representation…
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Society

New WT-ADF Cares projects kick off in Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Timor-Leste

By Seok-Jae Kang Asia Journalists Association Vice President SEOUL: World Taekwondo (WT) and the Asia Development Foundation (ADF) kicked off their new WT-ADF Cares Program in three countries – Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Timor-Leste – on July 1, 2022 for a one-year period. The new WT-ADF Cares projects, funded by the…
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Politics

Safety Waves versus Death Waves

A keynote speech at the 60th African literature and writers’ anniversary conference By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid IBADAN, NIGERIA: In our time, we live in more than one circle; circles that narrow and widen, touch, overlap and intersect, and sometimes even resist each other, and contradict with other circles. They are circles…
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Politics

Bahrain, Kyrgyzstan explore opportunities for closer ties

By Habib Toumi MANAMA: Bahrain and Kyrgyzstan are set to enhance relations and expand cooperation across several areas, the Kyrgyz foreign minister has said. “Talks with HRH the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, the Speaker and the Minister of Foreign Affairs were highly successful,” Jeenbek Kulubaev said. “There was full…
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