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South Asia
Kashmiri Hindu devotees pray in Khir Bhawani temple
Kashmiri Hindu migrant women pray at the Kheer Bhawani temple during an annual Hindu festival in Jammu, India, Monday, June. 17, 2013. Kheer Bhawani temple originally in Srinagar, was built in Jammu as well by exiled Kashmiri Hindus. The temple is dedicated to the Goddess Rajnya Devi, popularly known as…
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East Asia
A banner supporting Snowden displayed in Hong Kong
People walk past a banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at Central, Hong Kong’s business district, Monday, June 17, 2013. Top officials from the Obama and Bush administrations say the government’s newly exposed secret surveillance programs have been essential…
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South Asia
Torrential rain and floods in India kill more than 50
Over 50 people have been killed and hundreds marooned by flooding as early monsoon struck northern India, including capital Delhi, since last weekend, said officials on Monday. Most of the deaths occurred in the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, while another state Haryana saw widespread flooding which…
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Central Asia
G8 leadership remains divided on Syria conflict
Deep differences over Syria’s fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s regime. But there were also fissures among the three Western…
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South East Asia
Indonesians protest against gov’t plans to raise fuel price
Policemen fire tear gas during clashes with anti-oil price hike demonstrators outside parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 17, 2013. Lawmakers gathered to decide on budget amendments that will pave the way for the first fuel price hikes since 2008. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Zulkarnain> Indonesian protestors shout slogans outside the parliament during a demonstration…
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South Asia
University bus attack kills 24 people in Pakistan
Pakistani police say the death toll from attacks on a hospital and a women’s university bus in a southwestern provincial capital has increased to 24. Senior police officer Fayaz Sumbal said Sunday that a doctor and two nurses who were critically wounded in the suicide attack on the Bolan Medical…
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West Asia
Turkish riot police occupy Taksim Square
Riot police cordoned off streets, set up roadblocks and fired tear gas and water cannon to prevent anti-government protesters from converging on Istanbul’s central Taksim Square on Sunday, unbowed even as Turkey’s prime minister addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters a few kilometers away. The contrasting scenes pointed to an…
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South East Asia
Thais wearing white masks participate in anti-gov’t protest
Anti-government movement featured by the white masks has recently developed into a nationwide campaign in Thailand, mounting pressure on the Yingluck Shinawatra administration which is accused of corruption and incompetence. The new campaign was launched in the capital Bangkok earlier this month when about 700 white-masked protesters took to the…
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West Asia
Series of attacks in Iraq kill 51 people
A blistering string of apparently coordinated bombings and a shooting across Iraq killed at least 51 and wounded dozens Sunday, spreading fear throughout the country in a wave of violence that is raising the prospect of a return to widespread sectarian killing a decade after a U.S.-led invasion. Violence has…
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South East Asia
Thai pig farmers object to gov’t plan to import pork from US
Thai pig famers protest outside the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, June 11, 2013. About 500 pig farmers protested against the government’s plan to import pork from the United States, claiming that it will destroy their business and lives. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Rachen Sageamsak>
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