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Can judges tweet?
Controversy over judges and social networking in South Korea Judge Seo Ki-ho of the Seoul Northern District Court aroused controversy when he posted disapproving words about President Lee Myung-bak on his social networking site. The Supreme Court’s personnel committee assessed him as “unfit” and made the final decision not to…
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East Asia
World Press Photo Contest Announces Winners
A handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Samuel Aranda with the caption “a woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in…
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West Asia
Syria Aleppo Blasts, 28 Dead
Photo taken on Feb. 10, 2012 shows the explosion site of a law-enforcement force in Hanano area in Aleppo, northern Syria. Twin deadly blasts caused by car bombs hit two sites of Syrian government forces in northern Aleppo province Friday, leaving 28 people killed and other 235 injured, said Syria’s…
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East Asia
NY Fashion Week ‘Concept Korea’ Fashion Show
Models display creations during the Concept Korea presentation at Lincoln Center during the Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, Feb. 10, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Shen Hong> news@theasian.asia
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Politics
China targeting poverty reduction by family planning
China will further promote family planning policies in a bid to steady birth rates and alleviate poverty in its less affluent counties, according to a new plan on poverty reduction. Under to the plan, China aims to keep population growth rates within 0.8 percent in key poverty-relief counties by 2015,…
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Children’s Theater Festival kicks off in Nepal
The third Children’s Theater Festival kicked off in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Friday, with Russian Writer Anton Checkov’s famous story Vanka adopted as a play in the inauguration. The week-long theater festival was organized by Nepal’s Shailee Theater with the support of Russian Culture Center Nepal. It aims to advocate…
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25 dead, 175 wounded in Syria’s Aleppo blast
At least 25 people were killed and another 175 wounded in Friday’s twin bombings that targeted security and law-enforcement forces’ bases in Syria’s northern Aleppo city, according to the health ministry. Xinhua’s correspondent in Damascus reported initial information showed that at least 19 government troops were among the dead, including…
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Pakistan’s apex court turns down PM’s appeal against indictment
The Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected on Friday(Feb. 10) the appeal of country’s Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani filed against his indictment in contempt of court notice, asking him to appear before it on February 13 when the charges would be framed against him for not reopening graft cases against…
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