Asia

“Understanding Shariah From The Religious And Rights Perspectives”

Source:Peace 4Allpeacesymposiumkl@gmail.com The International Human Rights Committee and Projek Dialog will be holding a peace symposium and dinner at the Royale Bintang Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Bukit Bintang on 16 Sept. 2015  (Wednesday — Public Holiday – Malaysia Day )  The symposium entitled “Understanding Shariah from the Religious and Rights Perspectives” will discuss the role […]

New threat to Taj Mahal

Hindu: Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad, the city of glass and bangles, will now be surveyed for air pollution caused by its glass units operating within the Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) covering the Taj Mahal and 40 other protected monuments. The world famous glass industries which have been in news since 1990s […]

Syrians fear Army Colonel murdered during traffic altercation in Latakia will not get justice as suspect is son of President Assad’s first cousin

Hassan Sheikh, who served on the front line against Isis, was fatally shot by a machine-gun fired by either Sulieman Assad or his bodyguard BY    ROBERT FISK      THE INDEPENDENT Wednesday 12 August 2015 In government-controlled Syria, you respect the President. But you do not mess with the […]

First signs of hope

Aug 11,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH   When the Iran nuclear deal was reached a month ago in Vienna, analysts’ accounts went wildly in every possible direction, attaching to it every inconceivable and unthinkable attribution. Predictions went as far as claiming that the two-year-long negotiations had not […]

Finding a way forward for Syria

Aug 10,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby   A flurry of recent bilateral and multilateral discussions involving Americans, Russians, Saudis and others have provoked speculation that there may be a renewed push for negotiations to end the conflict in Syria. I can only hope the speculation is not mere wishful thinking, […]