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Beyond Words
Understanding and Interpreting Body Language Humans pride themselves on their seemingly unique ability to verbalize feelings and ideas. While the mouth tells one story, gestures and posture may tell a different story. In today’s competitive and increasingly global business culture, the value of effective and active communications seems obvious .often…
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East Asia
Female Bodyguards Get Training
The contestants receive training by the sea in Sanya, south China’s Hainan Province, Jan. 8, 2012. A selection of female bodyguards organized by Beijing Tianjiao Special Guard company started in Sanya on Sunday. <Photo: Xinhua/Hou Jiansen> news@theasian.asia
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China Travel Rush for Spring Festival
Passengers wait in their compartment before the train pulls out of Chengdu Railway Station in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Jan. 7, 2012. Starting from Jan. 8, 2012, China’s transport system will undergo a 40-day travel rush, which is characterized by a hightened passenger flow around the time…
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World
Estonians Celebrate Orthodox Christmas
A woman attends a Orthodox Christmas service at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tallinn, Estonia, on Jan. 6, 2012. Christmas falls on Jan. 7 for Orthodox believers with the Julian calendar. <Photo: Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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Syria Mass Funeral for 26 Casualties
People pray for the suicide bombing victims in al-Hassan Mosque in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 7, 2012. Thousands of Syrians on Saturday took part in a mass funeral procession for 26 people killed a day earlier in a suicide bombing that hit the heart of the Syrian capital of Damascus as…
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World
Turks ‘Occupy Istanbul’ Protest
Protesters chant slogans as they attend a demonstration in Istanbul of Turkey on Jan. 7, 2012 to support Occupy Wall Street protest and invoke the government to solve the unemployment problem in Turkey. <Photo: Xinhua/Ma Yan> news@theasian.asia
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I wish to forgive you
I am prepared to forgive you. I have come here to mark the 1000th Wednesday Demonstration on 14 December 2011. Since then I have been sitting here for 22 days. I’m not lonely even in the pitch-black darkness of midwinter. Someone has put a scarf around my neck. Someone…
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East Asia
China Develops Its 1st Wearable Computer
A staff member shows how to use a wearable computer designed by a company in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Jan. 6, 2012. The wearable computer, designed and made by a sci-tech company in Yunnan, includes an eyeglasses-shaped mainframe, a mouse and a folding keyboard. The computer, the first of its…
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World
A Cross at the Temple of Jogyesa
A middle-aged man is heading towards the main building of Jogyesa Temple where a mortuary of Ven. Jigwan was set up carrying a cross on his back in the afternoon of 5th. He bowed down in front of the main building and said, “I am a Catholic, not a Protestant…
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