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East Asia
[Asia Round-up] Hong Kong holds world’s largest ivory burn
When Hong Kong announced the start of the world’s largest ivory destruction project, one would expect a massive pyre, with flames engulfing the tusks. Instead, the tusk fragments were crushed into small chunks, placed in fiber drums and incinerated at a temperature over 1,800 degree Fahrenheit at a waste treatment…
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Pakistan’s response to sinking of South Korean ferry
The tragic incident of the capsized of the South Korean ferry Sewol, carrying 476 passengers, mostly students, on April 16, received wide coverage in Pakistan’s print and electronic media. It was really shocking news for the entire Pakistani nation, who kept on watching TV channels for the updates. They could…
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East Asia
How foreigners in Korea view the Sewol-ho Ferry tragedy
People all over the world were both shocked and saddened as they looked upon the Sewol-ho Ferry tragedy in Jindo on April 16. Magazine N was curious about what foreigners living in Korea for some time thought about this accident. Hence, Magazine N interviewed a few foreigners living in Korea…
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West Asia
[Asia Round-up] Qatar to end sponsorship system for expat workers
Qatar, host of the 2022 football World Cup, said yesterday it will abolish its controversial sponsorship system for foreign workers, whose treatment in the energy-rich state has stirred mounting international criticism. FIFA chief Sepp Blatter described the move as a “significant step,” but Amnesty International said it lacked substance and…
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South Asia
Absence of maritime boundary between India and Pakistan brings miseries to fishermen of two nations
It has become a tradition on the part of rulers of India and Pakistan to release detained fishermen on certain occasions as a gesture of good will but at the same time their respective security agencies continue arresting the fishermen, seizing their boats and throwing them into prisons to languish…
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South East Asia
[Transnational] Soccer in Kazakhstan and Bhutan
Kazakhstan aspires for UEFA 2020 Olzhas Talgatuly Besbayev·Kazakhstan·Dream Together Master, SNU Kazakhstan is becoming a new world sports center and a world competitor. Almaty and Kazakhstan have hosted a winter Asian Games and are preparing to host the Winter Universiade 2017 in Almaty. The Kazakhstan Olympic team performs very well…
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West Asia
Syrian woman in support of Asad
A Syrian woman living in Egypt smiles during a rally in front of the Syria Consulate in Cairo, Egypt, May 28, 2014. Syrians living in Egypt gathered here on Wednesday to support Syrian President Basar Asad and the upcoming Syria presidential election. Syria’s presidential election was due to begin on…
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South Asia
Stoning a woman to death
Pakistan’s The Nation on Wednesday posted an editorial concerning basic human rights of a woman to marry a man whom she loves. Stoning to death in a broad daylight of a daughter by her own father and brothers itself is shocking. More shocking is that not one of passers-by at…
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South East Asia
Burmese Journalists Call for Thai Junta to Respect Press Freedom
The Myanmar Journalists Networks(MJN) and the Myanmar Journalist Association(MJA) have both issued statements calling for the release of journalists detained in neighboring Thailand following a military coup. In statements issued on Tuesday and Wednesday, both groups said they were concerned about restrictions on media that have followed the May 22…
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East Asia
N Korea’s reporting on collapse of Pyongyang apartment
On 18th May 2014, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released an unusual report in which they admitted that a 23-storey apartment building had collapsed in downtown Pyongyang. The official report also admitted that some unlucky inhabitants of the apartment had been killed as a result, though there were no…
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