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Somewhat like a butterfly, Naovarat Pongpaiboon moves from one beautiful place to the next, in search of inspiration. Along the way, he turns his impressions into poetry...

The course only lasted a week but this is a school with ample resources for year-round classes. Sometimes the day's activities took place in a watershed forest, sometimes on the ridge of a steep limestone cliff, sometimes in a remote hilltop village...

Al Qaeda in Iraq said Wednesday that it would execute an Egyptian diplomat who was kidnapped in Baghdad four days ago, calling him a traitor to Islam and the representative of a country that is "allied to Jews and Christians," according to a statement posted on an Internet site associated with...

Sanaa, Yemen _ Thailand's substantial investment in terms of financial and human resources in saving its image from being tarnished as a Buddhist state that discriminates against its Muslim minority, has paid off at the 32nd session of Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (ICFM) last week...

IT WAS 7A.M. in the Immigration and Customs Hall of Islamabad International Airport when I heard my name being called. "Dr. Sood? Dr. Sood?" said a tall man wearing a uniform with the demeanor of a security officer...

Hundreds of villagers burned a small police station in Pakistan to protest what they said was officers' failure to arrest a Muslim man who allegedly desecrated Islam's holy book, the Quran, police said...

Amid today's constant news of Aceh's reconstruction, The Jakarta Post returns to the tsunami's personal horror on this sixth month anniversary by publishing this narrative work by journalist Adam B. Ellick , who went to Aceh immediately following the tsunami...

UBC, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet are inviting all primary school students to enter the "Thailand Power Kids Challenge". The contest is divided into four categories: animals and wildlife; science and technology; nature; and the environment and history. Entries will be accepted until July...

When Vivi Anggraeni visited the place where she was born, China, last year, she had the time of her life. "I'm glad I took my mother up on her invitation to spend my holiday there," the 23-year-old graduate degree student said...

Valentino Jonathans, an executive director of the Cornelis Chastelein Foundation in Depok, was furious recently when he was asked to explain about the origins of the ethnic group Belanda Depok or "Depok Dutch" in the municipality...

An estimated 2,000 protesters from several Islamic organizations held a protest at the Maluku Governor's office on Thursday over a local government website, which they said was defamatory toward Islam's Prophet Muhammad and included insinuations that Muslims in the province were terrorists...

It's one of this century's biggest questions: How to raise children to be a force for peace in a world divided by so many explosive ethnic conflicts? That challenge may discourage many educators, but not Prof Kasem Watanachai, a member of the Privy Council...

BRAMPTON, ONT. – The emergency department at Peel Region's new Brampton campus here in this suburb of Toronto will bear the name of a Sikh spiritual leader—recognizing donations from the area's large south Asian population...

Thais of all religions and faiths took to prayer yesterday as part of an effort to make merit for the country which has seen natural disaster _ the Dec 26 tsunami _ and violent conflict in the South over the past year...

Visitor flows between India and Thailand are set to surge as of this month when Indian Airlines more than doubles its capacity from 25 to 51 flights a week, or roughly 350 seats a day...

Ref: http://headlines.sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13620697&headline=A~woman's~journey~to~IAF~top~post Tuesday, 30 November , 2004, 14:38 Bangalore: As a young girl with a "very conservative Iyer background" as she puts it, Padma knew nothing about the Armed Forces in the early 1960s...

Lieutenant General Harbakhsh Singh listens keenly as Lieutenant General Bukhtiar Rana, Pakistan Army makes a point during post-war negotiations at Lahore. Officials from the United Nations walk right behind.