Asia

Bi Annual National Meeting Held At Udgir- Maharashtra  mid-August 2015        

I need your help!I am delighted to inform you that as a member of World Center for Humanist Studies, I am associated with organizing a National Essay Writing Competition for schools.The objective is to sensitize young minds that to build…

Guwahati, India It was a regular Independence Day function at Guwahati Press Club on 15 August 2015, where city-based media persons and many patriotic citizens from different walks of life joined in, making their point loud and clear that they…

Japan marked the 70th anniversary of its World War II surrender Saturday with about 7,000 people at the ceremonials and observing a period of silence at noon in Nippon Budokan, a hall in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward. Exactly 70 years ago,…

Fifty-six years ago, on a galaxy, far away, I was invited to take an adventure. This would be a mission that was explained to me in details. The mission had very clear time-frame, goals, but no reporting-back system or needs. There was…

Independence Day in Jammu-Kashmir, Saturday August 15, is being held with the entire region under lockdown, a sad fact for its residents. Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the moderate Hurriyat group and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman of the breakaway…

Bangladesh, which continues to grab international media attention for the wrong reasons, has geared up for a saving of face. As the country witnessed the deadly murder of another atheist blogger recently, the police have succeeded in arresting two suspects…

Taiwan cannot be taken as an example of a good democracy just because you can choose your leader freely there, apparently, as distinct from the Hong Kong system where the leader cannot be voted in freely. If you like Taiwan’s…

At a press conference on the 5th of August organised by the Greek branch of World without Wars and Violence and the Greek peace campaigner Panos Trigazis, in Athens, Nikos Stergiou gave this reflection on the Hiroshima bombing and it’s…

In our town, we had the warmth of family life, the deep human bonds of community, festivals heralding each season, traditional culture and buildings passed down through history, as well as riversides where children played. At 8:15 a.m., August 6,…