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South Asia
Bangladeshi activists throw stones in protest against anti-blasphemy law
Bangladeshi protesters throw stones at policemen during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Police in Bangladesh’s capital fired rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing Islamic activists Sunday during a protest to demand that the government enact an anti-blasphemy law. <AP Photo/Ashraful Alam Tito>
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East Asia
A N. Korean pharmacist waits for customers at traditional medicine pharmacy
Family members of a hospital patient bring a blanket and other items during a visit to Pyongyang Medical College in Pyongyang, North Korea on Feb. 21, 2013. A pharmacist waits for customers at the Man Nyon Pharmacy, the nation’s largest dispensary of traditional “Koryo” medicine, in Pyongyang, North Korea on…
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East Asia
Baby monkey, tiger and lion cuddle at ‘animial kindergarten’
A triplet of baby monkey, tiger and lion cuddle at the “animial kindergarten” of a zoo in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, May 1, 2013. <Xinhua/Zhang Wenkui>
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West Asia
A Palestinian refugee girl eats bread in poverty-stricken Gaza Strip
Palestinian Palestinian refugee children play in front of their family house in a poverty-stricken quarter in northern Gaza Strip town Beit Lahiya on April 28, 2013. Reports said that an increasing number of Gazan families are falling further into poverty, with unemployment rates at over 30 percent according to 2012…
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East Asia
A N. Korean boy looks at wallposter full of bellicose rhetorics
A boy looks at a poster reading “Severe punishment to the U.S. and their followers” in the central district of Pyongyang, North Korea, on Thursday, May 2, 2013. <AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin>
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South Asia
The Indian free school founder teaches slum children under bridge
Underprivileged boys take down notes from a blackboard painted on a concrete wall at a free school run under a mass transit bridge in New Delhi, India on Dec. 11, 2012. Rajesh Kumar Sharma, the founder of a free school for slum children, teaches a class at a free school…
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South Asia
Bangladesh’s garment industry hit by building collapse
EU considers action as Pope condemns condition of workers as ‘slave labour’ The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a building collapse killed more than 400 factory workers. Pope Francis…
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South Asia
Pakistani supporters observe 2nd anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death
Supporters of Pakistan’s religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) receive food distributed at a rally to pay tribute to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Quetta, Pakistan on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Hundreds of JUI supporters observed the second anniversary of bin Laden’s death on May 2, 2011 in a secret…
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South Asia
Convicted Indian spy dies from Pakistani jail blow
Pakistani policemen carry the coffin of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who was injured in an attack inside jail last week and died of wounds early Thursday. Singh spent more than 21 years in Pakistan after being convicted of spying for India and involvement in a series of bomb blasts…
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West Asia
A horse race doping scandal in UAE leads to global ban on steroids
A racehorse trains during a morning session at the Godolphin Club in this file photo dated Wednesday March 23, 2011, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The doping scandal that led to the downfall of Godolphin trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni is now helping fuel a call for an outright ban on anabolic…
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