Asia

Industrialisation bi-products enhance climate change and this impacts most severely people living in coastal regions and especially hits hard those in the less developed economies and the burden in particular falls on our women. This is becoming apparent following studies…

 They said he wouldn’t be able to form a core group of basketball players to accompany him on his North Korea tour but Dennis Rodman proved them wrong again… he told the press January 6, 2013, that a game he…

Obituary Saddhaloka Bhikku, “the German Monk” – called ‘Thay Tay Duc’, the master from West Germany by the local Vietnamese, was laid to rest January 5, 2014 in Hong Kong. The ceremonials initially took place at the Hung Hom Funereal…

It is difficult to wrap up this perplexing and transitional phase of 2013 in short as it was full of turmoil and new happenings. Overall this year of 2013 in Pakistan was a year of fears, anxieties, hopes and transitions…

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission Bangladesh’s incumbent regime is forcing the nation to witness a fake ‘general election’, scheduled tomorrow, 5 January 2014. All the opposition parties, except the allies of the ruling regime, have boycotted this…

That mass-participation is the mahout of political change, politicos are aware that truckloads of ‘bought-out’ crowds is on the decline as bona fide, change-seeking masses are now participating in growing numbers to express support to cleaner politics By Qureish Raghib…

Tokyo, Dec 22 (Prensa Latina) The Japanese government this week finalized the purchase of U.S. high-tech weaponry as part of a defense budget estimated at more than $ 1.8 billion for the period 2014-2019.The order includes five submarines, two destroyers,…

Beijing, Dec 20 (Prensa Latina) Today the putting into orbit of Tupac Katari satellite joined Bolivia to the countries with ingenuity of this type, which do not exceed fifty in the world and only reaches six in South America.The Tupac…

Interesting Times in North Korea – those who care, shudder. What next? Following the execution of Jang Song-thaek, the unknown remains. Is the young Kim (Leader, Kim Jong-un) bent on further centralising power and continuing on the much-derided (internationally) path…

The story of one truck convoy from Manila to the Central Philippines where typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) struck continues to develop with further runs by the same groups, as previously reported here on Pressenza. See – http://www.pressenza.com/2013/12/minas-mission-tacloban-aiding-typhoon-victims/ Willa Tecson reports: Second…