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East Asia
WHA Vice President Kang Seok-jae to Run for TAFISA Board of Directors, Aiming for Globalization of K-Sport Hangung
By AsiaN Team SEOUL: The World Hangung Association (WHA, President Hu Kwang) is set to strengthen the international presence of K-sport Hangung at the upcoming General Assembly of the Association for International Sport for All (TAFISA), the world’s leading organization for global sport-for-all initiatives. The WHA announced that WHA Vice…
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Pakistan’s Women Being Killed for So-called Honor
Protest against so-called Honor killing – file photo By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: The statistics are a grim testament to the failure of the Pakistani state and its justice system, making it perhaps one of the most dangerous countries for women in the world. According to the Human…
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Central Asia
Tashkent 2026 World Taekwondo Junior Championships: A True Manifestation of WT’s Value of ‘World Peace through Taekwondo’
By Seok-jae KangVice President, Asia Journalists Association TASHKENT, Uzbekistan: The 2026 World Junior Taekwondo Championships, which took place on April 12-17, 2026 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, were a great success embodying WT’s value of “World Peace through Taekwondo.” The WT-promoted G-4 event drew 986 athletes from 115 countries and a refugee…
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Central Asia
In the Shadow of the Taj Mahal, a Renewed Affection for India
By Nurzhan KasmalievaBISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN: I have been fortunate to visit India as part of a press tour organized by the Ministry of External Affairs of India for journalists from Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. For many of my colleagues, it was their very first encounter with India.…
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The Journey from Trash to Triumph
Dr Sidra with her rag-picker brother at his shop where the old sacks he used to scavange are hanged By Nasir AijazThe AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: Shahid, a 9-year-old boy of Lyari, the old city area of Karachi, the capital of southern Sindh province of Pakistan, was so small that he…
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South Asia
Why Financial Independence Changes Everything for Women
By Pirah Aijaz KARACHI: For many women, financial independence is not just about making money; it is also about gaining control over their own lives. In fact, it brings the confidence and fulfilment of being a self-empowered woman. Across cultures and societies, women have been conditioned to rely on men…
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West Asia
The Misuse of History in Modern Debate: Claiming the Past as Proof of Superiority
Jaafar Salman By Ahmed SalehColumnist, Al Ayam MANAMA: More than a week ago, an incident unfolded that resonates far beyond Bahrain. It is a familiar pattern across the Gulf that resurfaces with unsettling regularity and where shallow thinking, inflamed sentiment, and a regressive strain of tribal chauvinism reveal themselves in…
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Federation of Gulf Journalists Condemns Iraqi Ban on Bahraini Journalist
Jaafar Salman By Habib ToumiMANAMA: The Federation of Gulf Journalists (FGJ) has strongly rejected a decision by Iraq’s Media and Communications Commission to ban a Bahraini journalist following his participation in a televised debate. The FGJ described the six-month ban imposed on Jaafar Salman, a journalist with Al Ayyam newspaper,…
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The Map and the Mandate: India’s Gender Reform Meets Its Federal Fault Lines
India has passed a landmark law for women’s representation but by tying it to delimitation it has turned a social reform into a high-stakes political contest over who holds power in the world’s largest democracy. By Gunjeet Sra NEW DELHI: In September 2023, India appeared to close a chapter that…
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Lebanon Burns and the Questions the World Will Not Answer
By Ghena Halik BEIRUT: The numbers are stark: 357 killed, 1,232 wounded. But numbers, however large, conceal as much as they reveal. They flatten lives into data points, obscuring the people behind them -children, parents, professionals, neighbors – whose futures ended in a matter of minutes. Last week, Lebanon experienced…
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