• East Asia

    [Survey] Which city captures your heart?

    Tourists of the world are all heading to Asia. About 200 million tourists visit Asia annually and based on the combined statistics of the ASEAN countries, about 100 million tourists visit Southeast Asia. A huge increase of migrants from other countries can be seen as well. Many are attracted by…

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  • East Asia

    Noodles, Asia’s favorite

    Men and women, young and old all over the world enjoy food made with noodles made into hundreds, if not thousands of different types. Especially in Asia, as many types of noodles rise to popularity, national cuisine of different countries becomes popular as well. For example, Vietnam has pho (rice…

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  • East Asia

    World cities’ congress on sustainability to be held in Seoul in April

    Coined to be the biggest network of cities in the world, the ICLEI World Congress (ICLEI, International Council for International Environmental Initiatives) will be held in Seoul, Korea from April 8 to 12. During the congress, cities of the world including Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Heidelberg, Budapest, Guangzhou, Johannesburg, Edmonton, Melbourne,…

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  • South Asia

    Pakistani truck art to change nation’s image

    Interview with truck artist Haider Ali “I am the fuel-breathin’, smoke-emittin’, metal and glass-work wearin’ (Woo!), art drippin’, trail blazin’, road thumpin’ son of a truck!” Well, that’s what a Pakistani truck would say (if it could speak). Ric Flair style. Woo! The Transformer-like monstrosities dominate the roads in Pakistan.…

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  • South Asia

    Terrorism panics Christians in Pakistan

    Fears are running high in the homes of over 70,000 Christians in Youhanabad, a settlement in Lahore – the capital of Pakistan’s populous Punjab province. Residents say they have been too afraid to venture beyond their doors since twin bomb blasts on Sunday March 15 killed at least 15 worshippers…

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  • South Asia

    Pakistan-India Cricket Diplomacy

    Batting for the Peace: Does it really work? Cricket, one of the widely played games in the world, is highly popular in most populous nations of South Asia like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh where the people hailing from all age groups are over-enthusiastic about it. Even the people, who had…

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  • British court imprisons Pakistani man for stabbing wife over learning English

    Nazakat Ali, a Pakistani man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for stabbing his wife 15 times over her desire to take English lessons. According to the Daily Mail, Ali, 30, and his wife, Shahzana Kausar, 27, residents of Rochdale, England, got into a heated argument over her…

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  • South Asia

    Luxury in jail for alleged Mumbai Attack mastermind

      The alleged mastermind behind 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi lives a luxurious life in Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. While the case for the suspension of his detention is being fought in courts, Lakhvi and his six comrades enjoy all facilities in jail, due to lack of strict…

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  • South Asia

    Peshawar school attack’s main executor arrested

    Taj Muhammad alias Rizwan, one of the main executors of the tragic Peshawar school attack, which happened on December 16 2014, was arrested in an intelligence based operation on Monday. According to ISPR, the attack was reportedly led by two groups; Taj Muhammad was the commander of one of them…

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  • South Asia

    Indian Actress rides wave of success

    Anushka Sharma was born in 1988 in Ayodhya and raised in Bangalore. Influenced by her father who served as an army officer, she was educated at the Army School and later got education from the Mount Carmel College. Later, she moved to Mumbai for her modelling career. She began her…

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