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East Asia
N. Korean soldiers stand on steps overlooking border village Panmunjom
North Korean soldiers stand on steps overlooking the border village of Panmunjom, North Korea, which has separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. For weeks, North Korea has threatened to attack the U.S. and South Korea for holding joint military drills and for supporting U.N.…
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West Asia
Turkish people mourn for victims of Armenian massacre in 1915
People hold pictures of Armenian victims as they mourn during a ceremony to commemorate the 98th anniversary of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire on Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey on April 24, 2013. <Xinhua/Lu Zhe>
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East Asia
A N. Korean boy rides in bike’s basket as spring flowers bloom
A North Korean woman sells cigarettes and snacks along a rural road near the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas in south of Kaesong, North Korea on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. A North Korean boy rides in a bicycle’s basket on a road north of Kaesong, North Korea on…
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South East Asia
Cambodian opposition calls for electoral reforms before July election
Kem Sokha (1st R), vice-president of Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), and Mu Sochua, opposition lawmaker, give their regards to supporters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 24, 2013. Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), the kingdom’s main opposition party, staged a non-violent protest on Wednesday to call for reforms within the…
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South Asia
At least 161 dead in Bangladesh building collapse
SAVAR, Bangladesh — Rescuers tried to free people believed trapped in the concrete rubble of a building housing mainly garment factories that collapsed in Bangladesh a day after workers complained cracks had developed in the structure. The death toll jumped to 161 on April 25 after searchers worked through…
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Asia’s raw material consumption unsustainable, UN warns
The Asia-Pacific region has surpassed the rest of the world in its consumption of materials and will continue to dominate world material flows, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report. The data indicate that at this rate, the region will be increasingly dependent on imports and unable…
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South Asia
Can India’s government empower its people?
Commercial forestry: A legacy of British rule The Indian politician and the bureaucrat have struggled for the past 65 years to shed the legacy and the mechanisms of British rule and empower the people but have failed…why? As is well known across the world, the regimes of the newly born…
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East Asia
Buddha’s lamp carried to Korea to ease tensions
The ‘peace lamp’ kindled in the Buddha’s birthplace Lumbini has been travelling to the nuclear crisis-ridden Korean Peninsula. Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav and the Buddhist community of Lumbini presented a perennial holy peace lamp on April 19 to South Korean Buddhist monks to appease the winds of war between…
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Central Asia
Russian people mourn for victims of shooting in Belgorod
Local residents lay flowers at the the site of a shooting in southwestern Russian town of Belgorod, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Authorities said a man opened fire while attempting to rob a gun store in Belgorod killing at least six people before fleeing. Officials said Monday that the man, Sergei…
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East Asia
Chinese students set up tents for study in quake-hit Lushan County
Students of Tianquan Middle School put up tents for study, in Tianquan County, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, April 22, 2013. Due to frequent escape drills, no injuries and deaths were reported in the school after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Lushan County of Ya’an in the morning on April 20. At…
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