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South East Asia
Indonesian activists protest against Sumatran tiger trade on Global Tiger Day
A Muslim activist with face painted to resemble a tiger, takes part in a protest against Sumatran tiger trade that marks the Global Tiger Day, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, July 29, 2013. Sumatran tiger is the world’s most critically endangered tiger subspecies with fewer than 400 remain in the wild…
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South East Asia
50 tons of crude oil leaks from pipeline in Thailand’s popular tourist island Prao Bay
Streaks of crude oil cover the shore of Prao Bay on Samet Island in Rayong province eastern Thailand Monday, July 29, 2013. The oil spill that leaked from a pipeline has reached the popular tourist island in Thailand’s eastern sea despite continuous attempts to clean it up over the weekend,…
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West Asia
63 killed in series of deadliest atacks in Baghdad including 17 car bombings
A wave of violence, including 17 car bombings hitting Iraqi cities, killed up to 63 people and wounded some 224, amid growing tension that pushed UN envoy to Iraq to call for immediate government actions to stop the violence to avoid slipping the country back into sectarian strife. The deadliest…
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East Asia
North Korea celebrates 60th anniversary of armistice ending Korean War
Goose-stepping soldiers, columns of tanks and a broad array of ominous-looking missiles poised on mobile launchers paraded through Pyongyang’s main square on Saturday in a painstakingly choreographed military pageant intended to strike fear into North Korea’s adversaries and rally its people behind young ruler Kim Jong Un on the 60th…
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West Asia
Israel agrees to free 104 Palestinian prisoners for resumption of peace talk
Israel’s Cabinet approved the release of 104 long-held Palestinian prisoners Sunday, clearing a hurdle toward a possible resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after five years of paralysis. The prisoner release is part of a push by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to bring the two sides back to the…
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South Asia
Bangladeshi hill region turns into ‘death valley’: Tribesmen accuse Santu Larma
Bangladesh’s much talked about Chittagong Hill Tract peace treaty signed in 1997 between the then government of Sheikh Hasina and Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) led by Santu Larma have been failing to bring peace in the hills. Apart from the conflict between the Hillmen and the settler Bengali…
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South Asia
People gather at train derailment scene in eastern Pakistan, at least 3 dead
People gather at a derailed train in eastern Pakistan’s Gujranwala on July 25, 2013. At least three people were killed and several others injured when a train derailed here on Thursday, local media reported. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Stringer> Rescuers remove a body from the train accident site in eastern Pakistan’s Gujranwala on July…
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Politics
Tunisian people protest against assassination of leftist opposition leader
Angry anti-government demonstrations broke out Thursday across Tunisia after gunmen killed the leader of a leftist opposition party, raising fears of new chaos on the difficult road to democracy in the cradle of the Arab Spring. Just five months after a similar assassination plunged the country into crisis, two gunmen…
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West Asia
The number of people dead in Syria’s civil war passes 100,000, UN chief says
The number of dead in Syria’s civil war has passed 100,000, the U.N. chief said Thursday, calling for urgent talks on ending 2{ years of violence even as President Bashar Assad’s government blasted the United States as an unsuitable peace broker. In the latest example of the relentless carnage, a…
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East Asia
Malaysia seeks more Japanese investment in potential sectors
Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said here Thursday that Malaysia would like to see more Japanese investment in potential sectors. At a joint press conference at the PM office with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Najib expressed the hope that more Japanese investors would participate in Malaysia’s potential…
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