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Tthe Council of Agencies Serving South Asians released a new report, interrogatively entitled Putting Equity on the Agenda - Are We Being Heard? The answer, according to executive director Neethan Shan, is marginally.

Spain's anti-terrorism court has convicted 11 men of South Asian origin, mostly Pakistanis, in connection with a plot to stage suicide attacks in the Barcelona metro last year.

Anas bin Saleem, a 12-year-old American, spends seven hours a day sitting cross-legged on the floor memorizing the Quran.

A new genetic study conducted across 10 countries has revealed that the ancestors of most Asian populations, including the Chinese and southeast Asians, came from India.

Several genome-wide studies of human genetic diversity have been conducted on European populations.

New Delhi, Dec 11 : The ancestors of the present-day populations of China, Japan and other east Asian countries had migrated from India, scientists from 10 countries including India said Friday after achieving a breakthrough in the study of the evolution of humans and their spread across the world.

Large genetic study brings message of ancestral unity. David Cyranoski Negrito populations in Malaysia are more closely related to other Asians than previously thought.

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Winter Break is coming up in two weeks, which almost certainly means I will return home empty-handed. What does that mean? It means that I am still single and not bringing home a nice, rich, Korean, Harvard/MIT boy at Christmas.

Though there are some people who still believe that climate change is a "conspiracy", global warming - once only in scientists' domain - has become an increasingly incontestable ground reality which demands our serious attention.

Students and community groups are telling school officials they need to pay more attention to violence against Asian students at a Philadelphia high school.

Stanley Karnow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and longtime foreign correspondent, is trying to think of a good title for a planned memoir.

Burleigh in the Telegraph : The mass murders of July 7 in London revealed that we had a hydra in the form of boys who said "bruv" and "nuffink", but who were in a rage about Western foreign policy.

Last spring, two minesweepers began an "extended deployment" to the Western Pacific with the promise of exotic Asian port visits, but instead of adventure, the ships got delays, confusion and lots of requests for spare parts.

More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continent.

Michael Silverman, the regional superintendent who oversees 31 of the district's neighborhood high schools, said that as part of the safe-corridors program, city and school police officers and community members will patrol the blocks around the school to ensure that kids get to and from school safely.

Share + Dec 4, 2009 5:47 pm US/Eastern Reporting Elizabeth Hur Asians students at a Philadelphia high school say they are too scared to even leave their homes.

When U.S. President Barack Obama bowed to the Emperor during his visit to Japan last month, the headline of The Japan Times read: "U.S. conservatives: Obama bowed too deeply to Emperor." While some Americans accused the U.S. commander in chief of "groveling to a foreign leader," however, the Japanese and the country's vernacular media were full of ...

Ammar Shams has been on the front line of the fight to encourage more Emiratis to work in the private sector for more than two decades.

The six men on stage included a poet, a break dancer and a filmmaker. They pounded rhythms on the dhol drum, proclaimed "Vietnamese Men Are Lovers" or applied whipped cream to bare skin.