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East Asia
A Worker Files Complaint Against Tokyo Electric Co. For Sending In Crews Into Fukushima Nuclear Plant Without Adequate Protection Or Warning
A contract worker, right, of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) leaves after a press conference in Tokyo, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. The 46-year-old worker, who refuses to get his face photographed, filed a legal complaint Tuesday that the operator TEPCO of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant that went into a…
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South Asia
Bangladesh Women On Bicycle Bring Computers To Help Poor People Have Chats With Distant Loved Ones
In this Sept. 30, 2012, photo, Bangladeshi Info Ladies pedal their way from one place to another at Saghata, a remote impoverished farming village in Gaibandha district, 120 miles (192 kilometers) north of capital Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dozens of ‘Info Ladies’ bike into remote Bangladeshi villages with laptops and Internet connections, helping…
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East Asia
Canadian boarding school opens on Jeju
Branksome Hall Asia (BHA) will play a key role in cultivating successful young female leaders, said the principal of the prestigious Canadian girls’ school’s first overseas campus on Jeju Island. “We will inspire students to find their own remarkable talents, empower them to make their dreams become realities, and compel…
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East Asia
Chinese Researchers Watch New-Born Panda Cubs Attentively At Panda Base In Chengdu
In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 photo, a researcher stands near seven panda cubs, all born in 2012, at the Chengdu Panda Base in Chengdu, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 photo, visitors take photos of seven panda cub, all born in 2012, through a…
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West Asia
Bahraini Anti-Gov’t Protesters Form Solidarity With Doctors Arrested For Treating Injured Protesters
Bahraini anti-government protesters move in the shadows, waving national flags during a march in solidarity with Bahraini jailed doctors in Sitra, Bahrain, on Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012. Pictures of political prisoners are seen on the wall at left. Bahrain police arrested doctors who treated injured anti-government protesters who clashed with…
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Society
Yellow Cabs In Flooded Parking Lot Come To Surface As Superstorm Sandy Recede
A parking lot full of yellow cabs that was flooded the day before is now dry as flood waters recede in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. <AP/NEWSis=Charles Sykes>
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West Asia
Many Poor Families Still Make Do With Only Bread For All Three Meals In Iraq
Children ride a donkey cart in Baghdad’s eastern suburb of Shamaiyah, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. An Iraqi woman distributes bread as a lunch meal for her family in Baghdad’s eastern suburb of Shamaiyah, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Many poor families eat only bread for all three meals in…
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[Nuclear Symposium] No safe guaranteed in using nuclear power no matter how peaceful it may be
At the time the Gulf States were racing to get the Western satisfaction on using the nuclear power in peaceful ways, and make use of the stack of oil wealth in running the European and American economy, the disaster of Japan came as a bomb blowing away the Gulf ambitions…
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West Asia
Even Kalashnikov Poses No Threat On Cat Sleeping At Security Check Point In Gaza City
A cat sleeps next a Kalashnikov weapon on a Hamas security check point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. <AP/NEWSis=Bernat Armangue>
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East Asia
People Rush On Bicycle Amid Dense Fog In Lianyungang, East China
Residents ride in fog in Lianyungang, a port city in east China’s Jiangsu Province, on Oct. 31, 2012. The port city witnessed dense fog as the visibility in urban area was less than 500 meters. <Xinhua/Geng Yuhe>
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