• South Asia

    Indian actor Salman Khan jailed for 5 years in a hit-and-run case

      Indian Bollywood actor, Salman Khan, has been sentenced to 5 years in jail for killing a homeless man in a September 2002 hit-and-run case. An Indian court handed down the sentence to Khan on Wednesday. Khan had been convicted of homicide for crashing his SUV into a group of…

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  • South Asia

    Silencing Sabeen Mahmud: impairing cultural and social discourse in Pakistan

    One can guess that the society has gotten to a new low point when a person is ‘silenced’ because he spoke against the human rights violation of the very same society. But that has become a common practice in Pakistan. Usually, it is a waste of writing a few hundred…

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  • South Asia

    Nepal: fear, debris and shattered lives

    Khilmaya Gautam, 66, is a heart patient. She cannot walk. Her husband is a diabetic. This old couple of Koteshwore, Kathmandu, who owns a house, spent Saturday night in the open after the earth continued to tremble. They were sleeping under their staircase at their home with their son, daughter-in-law…

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  • 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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