With its diversity of ethnicities, languages and castes, India offers a picture of confusing differentiation. Caste system The caste system is mostly something that many associate with India first. The term caste, however, is...
Join us on a trip to Nippon, the Kingdom of the Sunrise! Japan is a magical web of tradition and modernity, old and new, east and west. There is so much amazing to discover...
On this trip we get to experience two very special mountain areas, the former kingdom of Nepal and the autonomous region of Tibet in China. Nepal has had a very special and exciting history...
Arriving in Krabi and moving from place to place Krabi Airport (KBV) is Krabi Airport, located about 15 km from Krabi Town and 27 km from Ao Nang. From there, you can reach Ao...
Yearbook 2019 Yemen. According to the organization Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, since 2015 the civil war in Yemen has harvested 91,600 casualties. By mid-June, 11,900 had died just this year, but...
Yearbook 2019 Vietnam. In February, two former communications ministers, Nguyễn Bắc Son and Trương Minh Tuấn, were arrested for wasting millions of dollars in state funds in connection with public investment. Vietnam’s government has...
Yearbook 2019 Uzbekistan. In January, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev decided that the state university should teach political science again. The subject was banned under former President Islam Karimov, who saw it as a pseudoscience foreign...
Until 1914, the Saudi state was rebuilt and became a factor of power in central Arabia, posing a threat to the Ottomans as well. Russia, France and Germany, in turn, tried to reinforce their...
Yearbook 2019 Turkmenistan. President Gurbanguli Berdimuchammedov and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani signed a strategic partnership agreement in February. This happened at a meeting in the capital Ashgabat. Berdimuchammedov then offered to negotiate peace with...
Yearbook 2019 Turkey. Local elections in the country became a noticeable setback for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), which in March lost power to the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)...