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South Asia
A monk walks inside Buddhist monastery in Dratshang, Bhutan
Monks carry a wooden box outside a Buddhist monastery in Dratshang, Bhutan, Sunday, April 21, 2013. Known by its people as the Land of the Thunder Dragon, Bhutan’s snowcapped peaks and mountainside monasteries have long intrigued Westerners in search of a Buddhist nirvana. A Monk walks inside a Buddhist monastery…
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South Asia
Afghan refugees shear wool off the sheep in suburban Islamabad
A Afghan refugee man holds a sheep while another uses a scissor to shear the wool off the sheep, in a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, April 22, 2013. Pakistan hosts over 1.6 million registered Afghans, the largest and most protracted refugee population in the world, according…
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South Asia
Death toll in Bangladeshi building collapse rises to 275
Bangladeshi authorities say 275 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the country’s worst ever disaster for its notoriously unsafe garment industry. Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Siddiqul Alam Shikder, who is overseeing rescue operations, said Friday morning that 61 survivors have been rescued since…
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South Asia
Malala supports football match for ‘peace’ initiative
A ‘peace’ football match, launched by Pakistani student activist Malala Yousafzai who was shot by the Taliban while defending the right to women’s education, has been organized for coming September, Saudi-run Television broadcaster Al Arabiya reports. Kashif Siddiqi, a British-born Pakistani footballer and co-founder of ‘Football for Peace’ which supports…
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East Asia
Exile Tibetan monks carry portraits of self-immolators in candlelit protest
Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks carry portraits of Tibetan self-immolators and of their religious leader Panchen Lama during a candlelit protest gathering in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Reports say three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have…
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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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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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South Asia
Indian Kashmiri Muslim devotees carry out torch light procession
Kashmiri Muslim devotees carry wooden torches as they prepare for a torch light procession on a hilltop near the shrine of Muslim saint Sakhi Zain-ud-din Wali, in Aishmuqaam, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. The farming community in south Kashmir celebrated the festival…
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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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South Asia
Pakistanis gather at bomb blast site that killed 4 people
People gathered at a blast site in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta on April 23, 2013. At least four people were killed and 37 others injured on Tuesday night in a series of bomb blasts followed by a suicide attack in Pakistan’s southwestern provincial capital of Quetta, local media reported. <Xinhua/Mohammad>
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