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‘I perform with all my heart and soul’

‘I perform with all my heart and soul’

Psy, YouTube, pianist prodigy get CICI award Decked out in his signature sunglasses and suit, singer and rapper Psy expressed thanks Tuesday on receiving the Korea Image Stepping Stone Award from the Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI). “The year 2012 was unforgettable,“ said Psy in an interview that was pre-recorded with Choi Jung-hwa, president of […]

A Bull Tamer Tries To Control A Bull During The Sport Called Jallikattu In Palamedu, India

A Bull Tamer Tries To Control A Bull During The Sport Called Jallikattu In Palamedu, India

Bull tamers try to control a bull during the bull-taming sport called Jallikattu, in Palamedu, about 575 kilomters (359 miles) south of Chennai, India, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Jallikattu is an ancient heroic sporting event of the Tamils played during the harvest festival of Pongal. A bull tamer holds on to the horn of a […]

Japanese Youths Walk In The Snow After Attending Coming Of Age Ceremony At A Park In Tokyo

Japanese Youths Walk In The Snow After Attending Coming Of Age Ceremony At A Park In Tokyo

Dressed in Japanese kimonos, Japanese youths who have turned or will turn 20-year-old this year, the traditional age of adulthood in Japan, walk in the snow following a Coming of Age ceremony at an amusement park in Tokyo Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. <AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi> Young girls dressed in traditional kimonos attend the annual Coming-of-Age […]

Rare photos of past Korean society to be shown in Japan

Rare photos of past Korean society to be shown in Japan

Two old men, dressed in traditional Korean garb, face the camera, one performing what seems like a traditional dance move, are seen against the sea off Jindo, South Jeolla Province. Japanese photographer Takumi Fujimoto captured during the 1970s and ’80s what he saw as exotic and rare scenes that revealed humanity. Fujimoto first came to […]

People Pray At Ganges River In Varanasi On The Occasion Of Makar Sankranti, A Hindu Holy Day

People Pray At Ganges River In Varanasi On The Occasion Of Makar Sankranti, A Hindu Holy Day

People worship on the bank of the River Ganges on the eve of Makar Sankranti in the temple town of Varanasi, Jan. 13, 2013. A large number of Hindu pilgrims converged for the Gangasagar Fair on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar during which taking a dip in the […]

Naked Hindu Holy Men Talk Ahead Of Maha Kumbh Festival In Allahabad, India

Naked Hindu Holy Men Talk Ahead Of Maha Kumbh Festival In Allahabad, India

Naked Hindu holy men, or a Naga Sadhus, talk in their camp after arriving at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, ahead of the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, Sunday Jan. 13, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in the large religious congregation of a […]

Ashraf’s novels studied in way of fictional narration at University Of Calicut, India

Ashraf’s novels studied in way of fictional narration at University Of Calicut, India

“The Poetic Discourse of the fictional narration in Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s Novels” is the title approved by University of Calicut for Mrs. Sabeena K. to study to works of the Egyptian poet and novelist Ashraf Aboul-Yazid. The topic was approved in April 26th. 2012, under the supervising of Dr. Moideenkutty A.B. associate professor in the department […]

Zina, a young cartoonist, depicts her comics with a “revolutionary” sense

Zina, a young cartoonist, depicts her comics with a “revolutionary” sense

Born in Cairo of Greek-Lebanese parents, taught in Canada, and arrived back to Lebanon, the country of her parents, those aspects made the cosmopolitan profile of the young artist Ms. Pert Zina Mufarrij, the artist who makes Zina Comics, to express herself, and her love, which is not a blind one, to her country, and […]

Scenery In Bagan, Myanmar, Amazing Enough To Be Said Picturesque

Scenery In Bagan, Myanmar, Amazing Enough To Be Said Picturesque

This December 2012 photo shows agriculture and a few of the over 2200 Pagodas found in Bagan, Myanmar. In this December 2012 photo monks pray before eating at the Buddhist Kaleywatawye Monastery in Yangon, Myanmar. This December 2012 photo shows a woman sifting plum seeds used in the manufacture of herbal heart medicine, in Phwarsaw […]

Gulls Fly To Bang Pu Seaside Resort Near Bangkok To Avoid Cold Weather

Gulls Fly To Bang Pu Seaside Resort Near Bangkok To Avoid Cold Weather

People watch gulls in Bang Pu Seaside Resort of Bang Pu district in Samut Prakarn province near Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 10, 2013. The gulls fly to the resort to avoid cold weather. Gulls are seen in Bang Pu Seaside Resort of Bang Pu district in Samut Prakarn province near Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 10, 2013. <Xinhua/Rachen […]

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