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Culture
Colorful Parade To Celebrate Buddhist Festival In Sri Lanka
In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 photo, a decorated elephant parades as Sri Lankan traditional dancers perform during the annual Buddhist festival of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhists throng the hill-capital every year to venerate Buddha’s tooth relic which is taken…
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Politics
DPRK’s top legislator to visit Vietnam to promote ties
HANOI, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) — President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Yong Nam will pay an official visit to Vietnam from August 5-7, at the invitation of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, Vietnam News Agency reported on Friday.…
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Society
Swiss National Day celebrated in Seoul
A reception to celebrate the Swiss National Day and 50 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and Switzerland was held Wednesday (Aug. 1) at the Grand Hilton Seoul. It was also a gathering for Amb. Thomas Kupfer of Switzerland to bid farewell to his diplomatic colleagues in Seoul as well as Korean…
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Column
Experiencing Ramadan as a Non-Muslim
Interested to experience the Ramadan month that Muslim celebrates this month, I then decided to take my own little adventure. Although I was born and grew up in Indonesia, world’s largest Muslim country, and as a non-Muslim, but I am pretty familiar with the Muslim’s culture. I remembered, as a…
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South Asia
Four Small Bombs Blasted In Pune, India
In this picture taken Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, an Indian police officer lays on the ground as he carefully examines evidence at the site of one of four small blasts in the city of Pune, India. India’s home minister says four small explosions took place in the western Indian city…
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‘About 10 Million Yemenis Are Starving’
Yemenis receive food from international aid agencies in capital Sanaa on August 2, 2012. The United Nations has warned that about 45 percent of Yemen’s population, or about 10 million, are suffering from food scarcity and malnutrition is affecting about one million children under five years old in Yemen. <Xinhua/Mohammed>…
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South Asia
A Pakistani Crew Returns Home After Captivity By Somali Pirates
Relatives hug a released Pakistani crew member of a Malaysia-owned ship seized by the Somali pirates, upon his arrival in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, on Aug. 2, 2012. The seven Pakistani crew members aboard MV Albedo, who had been held hostage by Somali pirates from November 2010, returned…
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East Asia
Kim Jong-un Poses With Chinese Delegation
Top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un (6th R) poses for a group photo with a Chinese delegation led by Wang Jiarui (6th L), head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, in Pyongyang, DPRK, Aug. 2, 2012.…
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Putin-Cameron In Olympic Diplomacy
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron watch women’s -78kg and men’s 100kg judo competition at London 2012 Olympic Games, London, Britain, Aug. 2, 2012. <Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Hainan Fishermen Restart Fishing After Moratorium
Fishermen return in a boat full of fish at Tanmengang wharf in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province, Aug. 2, 2012. Fishermen in Hainan restarted fish catching as soon as the moratorium, which lasted from May 16 to August 1, ended on Wednesday. <Xinhua/Meng Zhongde> news@theasian.asia
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