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Turkish Soap Operas and the Pakistani Mothers Who Watch Them

I was clueless why my mother, from her home in Karachi via Skype, suddenly started calling my two-year-old son “Engin.” His name is Elias. She revealed that this was a tribute to her current favorite actor, Engin Akyurek of Turkey.

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Photos: 'Peace Rickshaws' Promote Colorful Message of Tolerance in Pakistan

The Pakistan Youth Alliance (PYA) is on a mission to use a very visible form of street art to counter the intolerance, and worse, being spread by right-wing groups in Pakistan.

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'Singaporean Fairytale' Fertility Website Not So Magical for Some Critics

A website using illustrations and short poems to encourage Singaporeans to produce more babies invites scorn and mockery on the web.

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Photos: Kyrgyz People Cling to Tradition in Forbidding Corner of Northern Afghanistan

Photographer Matthieu Paley spent more than a decade photographing the Afghan Kyrgyz people, who live in one of the world's most remote and inhospitable areas.

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Photos: In Legal Limbo, Myanmar Refugees in Thailand Eke Out a Living at Trash Dump

Photographer Jacques Maudy documents the hardscrabble lives of Burmese refugees trapped in neighboring Thailand.

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Photos Show Japanese Town's Slow, Creeping Decline Months After Fukushima

Photographer Toshiya Watanabe captures the gradual decline of his hometown near the Fukushima...

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Video: Chinese TV Show Tests Foreigners on China Savvy

For the convening of the "Two Sessions" in China this week, a state-run newspaper sent...

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Photos: Kurdish Hills and Komodo Dragons All in a Day's Work for Kiwi Photographer

New Zealand photographer Amos Chapple, whose photo was selected as an editor's choice in the...

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Video: Emotions Run High As Activist is Slain in Bangladesh

As protestors in Bangladesh continue to rally for capital punishment of a 1971 Liberation War...

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Belief Systems Along the Silk Roads

Do you think China will surpass the U.S. as the global superpower?

Yes, in the next 10 years

27% (58 votes)

Yes, in the next 20 years

23% (48 votes)

Yes, in the next 50 years

15% (32 votes)

No

35% (73 votes)

Total votes: 211