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2011-12-30
Indian movie remakes charm audiences
Cross-linguistic remakes of popular Indian films are delighting audiences and bringing a new sense of national culture and unity.
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2011-12-30
Authorities are looking at new ways to combat drug smuggling on international flights as smugglers change tactics.
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![Bangladeshi Muslims in 2005 protest against the December 9th suicide bombings that year in Netrokona. Later this month, the Bangladesh cabinet will address tightening its Anti-Terrorism Act to incorporate more severe punishments for militants and separatists who use violent attacks against citizens and government. [Reuters]](/shared/images/2011/12/27/111227_ANTITERROR_BD_F1-150_100.jpg)
The new law calls for death penalty for terrorism financing.
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![A man cries after his relative died in a hospital fire in Kolkata on December 9th, 2011. Hospital management has been blamed for allowing the blaze to spread out of control, killing scores of patients. [Reuters]](/shared/images/2011/12/24/111224-SAHANA_IN_FIRE-150_100.jpg)
2011-12-24
Systemic problems led to Kolkata hospital fire tragedy
The AMRI Hospital fire that killed 93 people could have been avoided had staff received proper safety training. But the tragedy underscores a deeper problem rampant throughout Kolkata.
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![Despite announcing it will restart the process of taking in refugees who meet four strict requirements, Myanmar may only repatriate about 2,500 of the estimated 800,000 Rohingya living in Myanmar, and the estimated 300,000 living in Bangladesh. In 1982 Myanmar passed a law making it impossible for Rohingyas to get full citizenship, effectively making them nationless. Myanmar repatriated nearly 100,000 refugees between 1994 and 2004 before suspending the program in 2005. [Reuters]](/shared/images/2011/12/23/111222-KAMRAN-REFUGEES-150_100.jpg)
2011-12-23
Myanmar has agreed to repatriate a tiny fraction of its refugees from Bangladesh, casting a pall over the fate of a large number of ethnic Rohingyas.
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2011-12-22
Sri Lanka: With terrorists gone, the tourists return
After a bloody, 25-year conflict against LTTE insurgents, this tropical destination is regaining its tourism industry.
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![A man walks inside a conference room on the Indian side of the Indo-China border at Bumla, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The room is normally used for meetings between military commanders of China and India, but with increased recent tensions, India is fortifying parts of its northeast, building new roads and bridges, deploying tens of thousands more soldiers and boosting air defenses. [Reuters]](/shared/images/2011/12/22/111222-INDIA_CHINA_IN_F1-150_100.jpg)
2011-12-22
Breakthrough elusive in India-China border talks
Two weeks after high-level negotiations between India and China on the border issue were postponed, no dates for a next round of talks have been set.
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2011-12-19
Youths detained at a charity rock concert have their heads shaved and are forced to attend military training and religious education classes.
![Iranians sit on a boat at Denspar's Benoa port on May 12th, 2013. They were among 95 asylum seekers from Iran arrested by Indonesian marine police while sailing through nearby Badung strait. [Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP]](/shared/images/2014/02/15/140215_ANDHIKA_SAMUEL_IRANIAN_VISA_VG1-100_67.jpg)
![Indonesia's Election Supervisory Committee (Bawaslu) opens a Jakarta forum involving religious leaders January 22nd. [Yenny Herawati/Khabar]](/shared/images/2014/02/14/140214_YENNY_MUSLIM_VOTING_VG1-100_67.jpg)
![Imlek Festival goers in Solo celebrate the Chinese New Year. The festival went from January 23rd through January 29th. [Yenny Herawati/Khabar]](/shared/images/2014/02/13/140205_YENNY_ID_IMLEX_VG1-100_67.jpg)
![Opposition forces prepare to storm the headquarters of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters in Aleppo, Syria on January 7th. Indonesian jihadists are among 8,000 foreigners fighting in the Syrian civil war. [Medo Halab/AFP]](/shared/images/2014/02/12/140203_ISMIRA_OKKY_ID_SYRIAN_JIHADIST_RETURNED_VG1-100_67.jpg)
![Typhoon Haiyan survivors prepare to board Australian and US C-130 aircraft departing storm-ravaged Tacloban on November 18th. [Photo courtesy of US Marines]](/shared/images/2013/11/26/131126-FORUM_TYPHOON2PE1_PP-270_180.jpg)