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SAFMA concerned over journalists` killings in South Asia

SAFMA concerned over journalists` killings in South Asia Expressing grave concern over condition of media in South Asia and impediments in the expression of freedom in the region, South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) on Wednesday released its third report `Media Monitor 2005`, which encompasses the condition of the journalists in the SAARC member states. The report was released in SAFMA meeting chaired by SAFMA President Ziauddin, which was also attended by SAFMA President Islamabad Chapter Aroosa Alam and other office bearers of the association. Presenting the report Secretary General of SAFMA said during 2005, twelve journalists were killed in seven

China opens Asia’s longest land tunnel railway

China opens Asia's longest land tunnel railway China has commissioned the Wushaoling tunnel railway, the longest of its kind in Asia and a key facility in the Asia-Europe Land Bridge project in Gansu Province in north-western China. The 21.05-kilometre-long tunnel railway, which is more than 2,400 meters above sea level, is a key project for the Asia-Europe Land Bridge's 3,651-km-long section from Lianyungang in East China to Urumqi in Northwest China. Designed to allow speeds of 160 km per hour, the tunnel railway has shortened the distance between Dacaigou and Longgou, part of the long section, by 30.4 km. The right tunnel railway

Record snow in Japan, cold in Delhi as Asia shivers

Record snow in Japan, cold in Delhi as Asia shivers Troops and volunteers shovelled snow from roofs and roads in Japan and India's capital New Delhi recorded its lowest temperature in 70 years as a cold wave swept across parts of Asia on Sunday. In China, cattle have died of the cold in the far western province of Xinjiang and a 42-km (25-mile) section of the Yellow River has frozen over in eastern Shandong, officials and news reports said. At least 20 people have died from exposure, disease and malnutrition in northern Bangladesh over the past three days because of a cold

Who discovered America?

Who discovered America? A map supporting claims that the Chinese admiral Zheng He reached the New World in the early 15th century is obviously a hoax We all know that a lie goes halfway round the world while truth is putting on its boots. But what if the lie goes the whole way? What if it claims to circumnavigate the globe? Purported evidence that the Chinese admiral Zheng He (鄭和) sailed his great fleet of junks round the world a century before Columbus, Da Gama and Magellan came out the other week. An 18th-century copy of a map dated 1418 has emerged from

Who discovered America?

Who discovered America? A map supporting claims that the Chinese admiral Zheng He reached the New World in the early 15th century is obviously a hoax We all know that a lie goes halfway round the world while truth is putting on its boots. But what if the lie goes the whole way? What if it claims to circumnavigate the globe? Purported evidence that the Chinese admiral Zheng He (鄭和) sailed his great fleet of junks round the world a century before Columbus, Da Gama and Magellan came out the other week. An 18th-century copy of a map dated 1418 has emerged from