A dragon dance in the Negev

Credit: Asiatimes on Line: Bedouins of the Negev will soon witness a Chinese-built railway line snake its way through the desert to the Mediterranean and Levant Basin oil and gas reserves. The “Med-Red” plan is symbolic of China’s bold Middle East advance on three tracks: Iran, Gulf states and Israel. […]

Meet the UAE’s Single Bright Females

Until recent years, a woman’s identity was often based on her relationship to a man. Before she married, she carried her father’s name – meaning, this girl is a daughter of this man. Once she was married, she took her husband’s name – meaning, this woman belongs to this man’s […]

Cooking becomes popular among male retirees

Kitchen no longer the domain of women as guys start to slice, dice Kyodo Men from the generation that worked hard to turn Japan into an economic powerhouse are increasingly turning to cooking classes as a retirement activity, even though housework was considered strictly women’s work back in their day. […]

Blasphemy laws in Pakistan

Courtesy Daily Dawn: Editorial: THE list of those charged or accused under the country’s questionable blasphemy laws — that too on the flimsiest of pretexts — is far too long. Soofi Mohammad Ishaq, sentenced to death by a judge in Jhelum on Monday in a blasphemy case, is another addition to […]