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East Asia
Hollande visits Japan for closer cooperation in nuclear and economics
Japan and France have agreed to cooperate more on nuclear technology and to discuss joint development of military equipment, vowing to raise the tenor of their partnership. Visiting French President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued a joint statement Friday pledging to prevent nuclear proliferation while raising safety…
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South East Asia
A Cambodian farmer plows rice field with pair of ox during rice-seeding
A farmer scatter rice seeds in a paddy near Ang Tasoam town, south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. A Cambodian farmer plows his rice field in a pair of ox during their seeding of rice near Kampong Trach village, south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, May 28,…
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South Asia
Afghan boys collect recyclable items on World Environment Day
A Pakistani boy searches for recyclable items from a garbage dump on the eve of World Environment Day in northwest Pakistan’s Peshawar, June 4, 2013. The World Environment Day that falls on June 5 is celebrated by the United Nations to stimulate worldwide awareness of environmental issues and encourages political…
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West Asia
Thousands of Shiite pilgrims commemorate death of reversed saint
Tens of thousands of Shiite pilgrims are converging on a golden-domed Shiite shrine in northern Baghdad to commemorate the death of a revered Shiite Muslim saint. Security is tight after a wave of deadly attacks. Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Saad Maan Ibrahim said Tuesday that several thousand policemen and…
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South Asia
An American woman tourist gang-raped in Indian resort town
An American woman was gang-raped Tuesday in the northern Indian resort town of Manali, police said. The 30-year-old woman was picked up early Tuesday morning by men in a truck as she was hitchhiking back to her guest house after visiting a friend, police officer Sher Singh said. The three…
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East Asia
People in Hong Kong gather to mark 24th Tiananmen anniversary
Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong Tuesday June 4, 2013 to mark the 24th anniversary of the June 4th Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Vincent Yu> A man holds candlelight in front of a replica of…
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West Asia
Protest continues in Turkey while gov’t apologize for violent crackdown
Turkey’s deputy prime minister offered an apology Tuesday for the government’s violent crackdown on an environmental protest, a calculated bid to ease days of anti-government rallies in the country’s major cities. The message was a bit mixed, however, as hundreds of riot police deployed with water cannons around the prime…
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East Asia
China blocks remembrance on 24th anniversary of Tiananmen Crackdown
Activists in China are taking to social media to urge the public to wear black on the 24th anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on protesters who had camped out for weeks on Tiananmen Square. The crackdown on pro-democracy protesters on June 4, 1989, killed hundreds, possibly more. The Chinese…
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West Asia
Israel sends thousands of African migrants to unidentified country
Israel has reached an agreement to send thousands of African migrants to an unidentified country, according to a court document obtained Monday, a plan that has elicited criticism over its potential harm to the migrants. The plan, if implemented, is an attempt to address one of Israel’s more pressing issues:…
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East Asia
119 dead from fire at poultry slaughterhouse in Jilin, China
A swift-moving fire trapped panicked workers inside a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China that had only a single open exit, killing at least 119 people in one of the country’s worst industrial disasters in years. Survivors described workers, mostly women, struggling through smoke and flames to reach doors that turned…
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