Major news in China on Jul 12: South should encourage North Korea
Major news in <People’s Daily>: South should encourage North Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently watched a concert in Pyongyang that featured many Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse. The news spurred speculations among Western media about the possibility that the “unusual” concert signifies a possible North Korean policy shift toward “opening-up.” North Korea’s opening-up […]
Seoul’s Old-Style Theater Plays Last Movie Before Closure
A senior patron of Seoul’s last old-style one-screen cinema steps inside for the theater’s last screening at Seodaemun Art Hall in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Seoul’s last old-style one-screen cinema, soon to be knocked down and replaced by a new tourist hotel, played its final movie Wednesday – the Italian classic “The […]
India Starts Fight Against Child Labor
Young Indian bonded child laborer Iqrar, 11, wears a number and poses for photographs as his details are processed after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. In New Delhi alone, about 50,000 children are believed to be […]
A Woman Mourns Victims Of Srebrenica Massacre
A woman cries next to the gravestone of her relative who perished in the Srebrenica massacre at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica, some 160 kilometers east of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Thousands gathered at the Potocari memorial complex on Wednesday for the mass burial of 520 bodies, marking the 17th […]
Flood Separates Pakistani Children From Families
Pakistani boys, whose families were displaced by 2010 floods from a village in Pakistan’s Sindh province, play pool in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
Tea drinking: Time-honored Chinese custom
A customer (R) tastes lotus root starch in Cuiyuting Teahouse in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, July 11, 2012. There are several teahouses besides the West Lake, providing customers with tea at a price of only one yuan RMB (0.16 U.S dollar). It’s the lifestyle in one-yuan-teahouses beside West Lake, as local people […]
Syria Releases Detainees As Goodwill Gesture
Freed detainees are seen upon their release in the Damascus Police Command in Damascus, Syria on 11 July 2012. The Syrian authorities released Tuesday a total of 275 detainees, who had been arrested over involvement with the anti-government movement, in a bid to show a good will to bring an end to the ongoing crisis […]
Salt Making Out Of Natural Spring Water
Around 80 tons of salt is being produced daily out of natural spring water in Aktuzla village in eastern city of Mus’s Bulanik district. <Cihan> news@theasian.asia
Glassware Exhibition In Khazaksktan
A visitor looks at a piece of glassware on display in Almaty, Kazakhastan, July 10, 2012. The exhibition opening here on Tuesday featured glassware and glass paintings and sculptures created by dozens of artists and glass art enthusiasts. <Xinhua/Timur> news@theasian.asia
China’s Third Oil Price Cut In Two Months
A staff member of a gas station alters fuel price tags in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province, July 11, 2012. China slashed the benchmark retail price for gasoline by 420 yuan (66.46 U.S. dollars) per metric ton (tonne) and the price for diesel by 400 yuan per tonne starting from Wednesday. The decreases […]
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