• South Asia

    Gold for garbage: Innovative way of waste management

    Twenty years back people laughed at Ms. Nargis Latif, who hails from a well-off family of Karachi, when she started collecting municipal waste for recycling and propagated the slogan “waste for gold” as an idea aimed to create self-employment opportunities and get rid of environmental problems. Even though she did…

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  • East Asia

    China’s conditions to accept a ‘unified Korea’

    Recent months have seen an unusual amount of noise and a sense of crisis in Northeast Asia, a region in which nationalist passions have not run this high for decades. Sino-Japanese relations have hit a nadir, while US commitments to Japan have been strongly confirmed. While South Korea’s President Park…

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  • 18 killed in a plane crash in western Nepal

    A twin otter aircraft belonging to the Nepal Airlines (NA) that went missing with 15 passengers and three crew members on board Sunday afternoon was found crashed in a Jungle in Arghakanchi district in western Nepal killing all on board on Monday morning.   A group of local youths who…

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  • South East Asia

    Haiyan, the agony you left and heroes you brought!

    I have been to Tacloban City many times before, and have also visited other places in the provinces of Leyte and Samar. These are in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. These places are exceptionally beautiful, especially Tacloban City, the major trading and commercial hub in the region. This…

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  • South Asia

    Taekwondo gains popularity in Bangladesh

    Taekwondo, the Korean martial art, is now a very well known name in the sports arena of Bangladesh. Other martial arts such as Judo and Karate have existed in Bangladesh for more than 50 years. But, Taekwondo started its journey in this country little over 10 years ago and its…

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  • West Asia

    Egyptian workshop on Korean poems

    The very first question addressed to me was: “Why did you choose to translate the book of the Korean monk and poet Cho Oh-hyun?” I was sitting surrounded by an elite audience of Egyptian writers, poets, novelists, critics and journalists. It seemed like a testing start, but I was keen…

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  • Politics

    [Asia Round-up] Asia accounts for two thirds of modern slavery

    The recently released Global Slavery Index conducted by Walk Free Foundation reveals that there are an estimated 29.8 million people enslaved worldwide. India, China, and Pakistan enslave the highest number of people while Mauritania has the highest prevalence. Out of 22 million people enslaved in the index’s top 10 countries,…

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  • South Asia

    Makli: Withering necropolis of Sindh

    Maintenance of world heritage sites is an international issue. A great part of history is in danger if we do not make effort to preserve it, even if not in its original form. This is especially true for Pakistan, where there are more important issues economically as well as socio-politically.…

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  • East Asia

    [Transnational] Sport as a tool for social change

    Chasing my dreams with Seoul academic life Anoma Rathnayake·Sri Lanka·Dream Together Master, SNU “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” The above quote by Malcolm X inspires me a lot. As a student from Sri Lanka, I am very…

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  • Politics

    Sri Lanka will never sell women to boost tourism

    Commercial sex would never be legalised and Sri Lanka would not sell its women for the sake of promoting tourism, the government says. According to rough estimates, there are about 40,000 sex workers in Sri Lanka. Among the campaigns conducted by the government is to increase awareness on abortions and…

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