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Society
Mexican Journalists call for end to attacks on press people
Journalists march together during a protest to demand justice in the Regina Martinez case, a journalist killed a year ago and to demand an end to more recent attacks on the press in Mexico City, Sunday April 28, 2013. Journalists in several states organized a demonstration on Sunday to mark…
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South Asia
Nepali women challenge traditional menstrual practice forced to them
Kathmandu – Women in Dailekh district, in western Nepal, are slowly giving up the Chhaupadi tradition, a system in which the women are forced to stay in the cow sheds or natural caves during their menstruation cycle. Sad yet true, many women in the remote parts of western Nepal are…
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South Asia
Family members visit jailed Indian spy attacked by inmates
Dalbir Kaur(C), sister of jailed Indian spy Sarabjit Singh arrives with her family members at Wagah border in eastern Pakistan’s Lahore on April 28, 2013. Singh, who is on death row, was attacked by inmates armed by bricks in Lahore’s jail on Friday. Singh was arrested in 1990 for his…
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West Asia
Syrian victims of alleged chemical attacks receive treatments
In this Tuesday March 19, 2013 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian victims who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village according to SANA, receive serum treatments, at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria. The purported instances in which chemical weapons have been used…
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South Asia
A survivor of Bangladeshi building collapse carried into ambulance
A survivor (center) is carried into an ambulance while surrounded by onlookers, after being rescued from the garment factory building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday April 28, 2013. A fire broke out late Sunday in the wreckage of the garment factory that collapsed last week in…
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East Asia
Chinese passengers line up for train tickets for 3-day May 1st holidays
Passengers line up to buy train tickets in Yinchuan Railway Station in Nanchang, capital of east China’s Jiangxi Province, April 28, 2013. China sees a travel rush around the country as the three-day May First national holiday comes around the corner. Passengers line up to board a train in Yinchuan…
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West Asia
A worker unloads salt blocks from truck in northern Afghanistan
An Afghan man unloads blocks of salt from a truck in Afghanistan’s northern province of Jawzjan, on April 22, 2013. An Afghan man works at a salt factory in Afghanistan’s northern province of Jawzjan, on April 22, 2013. Afghan men work at a salt factory in Afghanistan’s northern province of…
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South East Asia
A vendor sells handicrafts at market in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
A vendor makes handicrafts at a market in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, April 23, 2013. Negara Brunei Darussalam, officially the Nation of Brunei, is a tiny Southeast Asian country you can barely spot on a map. Regardless its tiny territory and small population, Brunei is often trotted out as an…
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South East Asia
“Venice of the East” – World’s largest water village in Brunei
Photo taken on April 24, 2013 shows a mosque in the Water Village in Brunei’s capital city Bandar Seri Begawan. Dubbed as Venice of the East and situated along the Brunei River, Kampong Ayer is the world’s largest water village, sheltering about 30,000 inhabitants. It covers an area of 2.6…
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South Asia
Afghan refugees shear wool off the sheep in suburban Islamabad
A Afghan refugee man holds a sheep while another uses a scissor to shear the wool off the sheep, in a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, April 22, 2013. Pakistan hosts over 1.6 million registered Afghans, the largest and most protracted refugee population in the world, according…
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