• tobechecked

    New Yorkers Enjoy Shopping Season

      People watch a puppet show in front of a store in Manhattan, New York, the United States, Dec. 21, 2011. Various kinds of promotions are provided by retailers to attract customers during the annual holiday shopping season. <Photo: Xinhua/Wang Lei> news@theasian.asia  

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  • West Asia

    Iranians Prepare ‘Yalda Night’

    Iranians buy fruits for Yalda Night at a market in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 21, 2011. Yalda Night is Iranian winter solstice celebration. It is celebrated on the longest night for the year, locally believed, to be on Dec. 21 on the eve of winter solstice. <Photo: Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz> news@theasian.asia

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  • How the World Sees Kim’s Death

    The death of Kim Jong-il was front-page news all over the world. Breaking news, the headlines, the big story, hot topic or whatever it is called, the news came as swiftly as possible. However, different views and attitudes were found to present an account of the event. The Yomiuri Shimbun…

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  • East Asia

    NK Policewoman in Incense Altar

    A female police officers directs traffic on the road while people wait to mourn the death of Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), in the Kim Il Sung Square of Pyongyang, DPRK, Dec. 21, 2011. <Photo: Xinhua/Zhang Li> news@theasian.asia  

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  • East Asia

    “I Won’t Leave Here”

    An old woman (C) sitting on the ground refuses to leave after mourning the passing away of Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), in Pyongyang, DPRK, Dec. 21, 2011. <Photo: Xinhua/Zhang Li> news@theasian.asia  

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  • East Asia

    NK People Offer Condolence in P’yang

    People wait to mourn the death of Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), in Pyongyang, DPRK, Dec. 21, 2011. <Photo: Xinhua/Zhang Li> news@theasian.asia    

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  • tobechecked

    Burma Bomb Explodes, One Woman Killed

    Security force cordons off the blast site in Yangon, Myanmar, Dec. 21, 2011. One woman was killed and two men injured in a time-bomb explosion occurred in a public toilet near the Hledan Market, Yangon, at 11:10 a.m (local time) Wednesday, Myanmar officials said. <Photo: Xinhua/U Mya> news@theasian.asia    

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  • South East Asia

    Xi Jinping Meets Nguyen Phu Trong

    Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) meets with Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, Dec. 21, 2011. <Photo: Xinhua/Li Xueren> news@theasian.asia  

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  • East Asia

    Suggestions for the North Korean Successor

    When the news media was broadcasting the news of North Korea’s beloved leader Kim Jong-il’s death due to a heart attack, at that time I was at a South Korean metro station waiting for a train. At a nearby restaurant where people were having lunch, I witnessed some kind of…

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  • South East Asia

    Malaysia Bus Accident, Died 6

    Firefighters inspect the site of a traffic accident in Malaysia’s Sabah state in the east peninsula on Dec. 20, 2011. A bus carrying over 30 tourists from Brunei lost control and hit a tree in Malaysia’s Sabah state in the east peninsula on Tuesday, killing six people, local police said.…

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