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East Asia
China and US ratify Paris climate pact
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama handed over their countries’ instruments of joining the Paris Agreement on Climate Change to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon successively on Saturday, a day before the start of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou. The simultaneous ratification of China and the US, as…
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West Asia
World Chess Olympiad started in Baku
The 42nd World Chess Competition started in Baku on September 1, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. The opening ceremony will last about an hour at the National gymnastics arena and the competitions will be held at the Sports and Concert Complex Baku Crystal Hall that was built four years ago. The opening…
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West Asia
Georgia enlisted as 3rd safest country in the world
Georgia has been named in the top three of the list of the world’s safest countries. Numbeo.com has surveyed 118 countries. As a result, the first three are the following countries: South Korea, Singapore and Georgia. The most unsafe countries were Venezuela, Papua New Guinea and Honduras. As Georgia’s neighbors,…
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Central Asia
Tourism in Mongolia: Quality or quantity?
Gantemur Damba is president of the Mongolian Tourism Association and heads a large group of influential organizations important to the development of this country. He has worked as a consultant and project director for major international organizations. Until recently, he was General Director of the Culture and Art Policy Coordination…
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West Asia
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West Asia
5 million foreign tourists visited Iran in 2015
Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Masoud Soltanifar said more than five million foreign tourists visited the Islamic Republic in 2015, Tasnim reports. Speaking in a meeting with Bangladeshi Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation Rashed Khan Menon in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on…
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Central Asia
Finding home in the ger district
Alexander McNab – The UB Post Ulaanbaatar is a city known as a cemetery of nomadism, a place where wandering people have gone to settle down inside four cement walls in towering apartment blocks, but for Froit van der Harst, the entrance into U.B. was only a continuation of over…
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South Asia
Sonnet Mondal to lead the Indian cultural delegation at Slovakia
Sonnet Mondal, one of the younger generation poets from India will be leading the Indian cultural delegation to one of the most celebrated poetry festivals of Europe- Ars Poetica in its 14th year. Ars Poetica Festival which hosts internationally acclaimed poets from all over the world has announced India as…
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Central Asia
Russian soldier sentenced to life for Armenian killings
An Armenian court has found a Russian soldier guilty of murder charges and sentenced him to life in prison for the 2015 massacre of seven members of an Armenian family, RFERL reports. The court in Armenia’s northwestern city of Gyumri issued the verdict and sentence aga inst Russian Army Private…
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Central Asia
The language of Azerbaijan: Turkish or Azerbaijani?
Written by: Altay Göyüşov – This article was originally published by the BBC Azerbaijani Service. The AsiaN cites from Meydan.tv. *** The language issue in Azerbaijan has long been more of a political question than a scientific one. In June of 1918, the government of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic enacted a law…
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