UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Your weight in gold: Dubai fights obesity by offering gold to...
A campaign is launched against obesity. Emirates hope to get people to go on a diet with a gramme of gold for every kilo...
SAUDI ARABIA: Riyadh fears new SARS, restricts visas for Hajj
Saudi authorities have decided to restrict entry during the Greater Pilgrimage, which mobilises millions of people every year from all over the Islamic world....
TAIWAN: Typhoon Soulik causes damages for more than NT$ 1 billion, farmers badly affected
In addition to the terrible loss of life, the main impact of an event as devastating as the typhoon that hit the island of...
Panama stops North Korean ship carrying missiles from Cuba
"We suspected drugs," Panamanian President Martinelli said, but "found containers we suspect contain sophisticated missile equipment". Pyongyang is under an embargo for illegal nuclear...
Nanjing: Photo of 4 year old forced to beg naked shocks China
The child was identified only after the picture was posted on the internet and shared by thousands of users. Now along with her father,...
TURKEY: Despite the world’s indifference, Gezi Park continues to speak out loudly
Forced by protests to stop its redevelopment plan for the park, the government goes after the Chamber of Turkish Architects and Engineers. New clashes...
Egypt: After Morsi, Christians and churches targeted by Islamists
About a hundred Christian families flee the Sinai after the murder of a Coptic priest and the beheading of a Christian businessman. Gunmen riddle...
India – Orissa: Christian nun gang raped
A nun, 28, was abducted and raped for a week. One of her cousins is among the attackers. For the archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, "The...
CHINA: 500 thousand people flee coast as typhoon Soulik hits China
The storm killed two people in Taiwan and is causing damage worth millions of dollars. Currently it is over the provinces of Fujian and...
TAIWAN – Taipei launches the alarm: increasingly young people at-risk of AIDS
The government publishes data on new HIV infections, which have tripled in 10 years. Although the absolute numbers remain low, fortunately, civil society and...