Asia

  • World Population Day

    World Population Day

    Jul 11, 2018 10:05

    On July 11, 1989, the 5 billionth man was born. Then UN secretary general Javier Perez de Cuéllar, expressing concern over the population increase, proclaimed this birth as a turning point in the world history, pointed out the urgent need for sustainable development, access to education, health and social services.

  • International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

    International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

    Jun 27, 2018 09:27

    The International Conference on Drug Abuse and Trafficking, held on June 17-26, 1987 in Vienna, aimed at expressing the political will of nations to combat the illicit drug phenomenon, in which the document C.M.O was approved by the participating countries.

  • Narcotics, a Silent Threat (3)

    Narcotics, a Silent Threat (3)

    Mar 07, 2018 10:16

    Spread of drug trafficking and its consumption has turned into a socio-political problem. It has been put on the UN agenda as an international crisis.

  • Trump in Asia: The player gets played

    Trump in Asia: The player gets played

    Nov 13, 2017 10:27

    Donald Trump, the quixotic president of the US, who shamelessly brags and boasts of American power, is notorious for his threats and theatrics against independent countries, and unabashedly violates international laws including the breaching of Washington’s own commitments, seems to have been cut down to size during his trip to East and Southeast Asia, despite his senseless statements against North Korea which have made him a laughing stock in world diplomatic circles.

  • The neo-Pharaohs and neo-Fascists of our time

    The neo-Pharaohs and neo-Fascists of our time

    Jul 28, 2017 05:05

    In many parts of Asia, Africa and Northern America, the regimes in power are acting like the Pharaohs of the time of Prophet Moses (PuH).

  • US-linked terrorism in Southeast Asia

    US-linked terrorism in Southeast Asia

    Jul 22, 2017 11:26

    Where US interests are threatened, ISIS coincidentally appears, threatening those standing in the way. What is behind this increasingly transparent pattern of geopolitical coercion?

  • Contamination revealed at largest US air force base in Asia: Kadena, Okinawa

    Contamination revealed at largest US air force base in Asia: Kadena, Okinawa

    May 10, 2016 07:49

    The article you are about to read has been penned by Jon Mitchell who is a Welsh journalist based in Japan.