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South East Asia
Mall Rongsok, Opened In 2009, Is Only Shopping Center For Used Goods In Indonesia
Nurcholis Agi, 41 years old, looks at a Balinese statue at Mall Rongsok, a local used goods market, in Depok, Indonesia, Oct. 21, 2012. Mall Rongsok, opened in 2009 by local dealer Nurcholis Agi, is the only shopping center for used goods in Indonesia. A cashier waits for costumers at…
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South East Asia
Filipinos Protest Against Recent Peace Accord Gov’t Signed With Muslim Group
Members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) clench their fists during a big rally in Davao city Sunday Oct. 21, 2012 in southern Philippines to oppose the recently signed tentative peace accord between the Government and the largest Muslim group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in a ceremony…
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West Asia
Car Bomb Attack Devastates Popular Shopping District In Damascus
In this Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 photo, A Syrian civilian lies in the street in pain with a shot to his stomach as he tries to escape the line-of-fire after he was targeted by a Syrian army sniper while walking near the frontline in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo,…
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West Asia
Assassination Of Rebanese Intelligence Chief Causes Violent Protest In Beirut
A Lebanese protester gestures to security forces during clashes after the funeral of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan who was assassinated on Friday by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday Oct. 21, 2012. Lebanese soldiers fired guns and tear gas to push back hundreds of protesters who broke through a…
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South Asia
Pakistani Farmers Harvest Rice Amid Fear Of Drastic Crop Reduction Due To Heavy Monsoon Rains
Need becomes ‘Mother of Invention’ The delayed but unprecedented heavy monsoon rains had played havoc in Sindh and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan in mid of September 2012. Several deaths, destruction of houses and damage to crops were reported from two provinces. The overall losses to growers are estimated to be…
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East Asia
Remembering 120-year Korea-Austria ties
History is a story of people. The 120-year-long Austria-Korea ties also remember several memorable people. Official diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Austria opened in 1963, but, in 1892, the then Austria Hungarian Empire and Joseon Kingdom signed a bilateral treaty on commerce and navigation.…
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East Asia
Britain helps NK defectors learn English
Kim Ji-young, 30, a North Korean defector, recalled that she struggled in class four years ago when she first attended a business management course at Sung Kyun Kwan University in Seoul. The “new settler” said almost half the words that her professor used in class were English and this troubled…
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East Asia
Songdo to host UN climate fund
GCF to use $800 bil. to control global greenhouse gases Songdo International Business District was selected to accommodate the secretariat of the U.N.-operated Green Climate Fund (GCF) during its board meeting Saturday. At their meeting in Songdo, a town in Incheon and west of Seoul, the directors voted for the…
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South East Asia
Meeting Of ASEAN Plus Three Committee On Women Opens In Vientiane, Laos
Delegates attend the fourth meeting of the ASEAN plus Three Committee on Women (ACW+3) in Lao capital Vientiane on Oct. 18, 2012. The fourth meeting of the ASEAN plus Three Committee on Women (ACW+3) started here on Thursday to strengthen the regional cooperation on women affairs and environmental sustainability. Delegates…
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West Asia
Syrians Search Survivors From Rubble Of A Building Destroyed By Gov’t Airstrike
In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 photo, citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians rescue people from under the rubble of a destroyed building that was attacked by a Syrian force airstrike, at Kfar Nebel…
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