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Baird Urges Canadians to Move out of Syria

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird attends a news conference in Ottawa, Canada, Dec.15, 2011. Canadians in Syria should flee the turbulent Syria now, while there are commercial flights out of the country, the country’s John Baird said. (Photograph: Xinhua)(ctt)

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Tajik President officially Visits to Ukraine

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (L) holds a welcoming ceremony for Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon (R) in Kiev, Ukraine, Dec. 15, 2011. Rakhmon is on a two-day official visit to Ukraine. <Photograph: Xinhua> news@theasian.asia

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Netherlands Opens Its First Icehotel

A chambermaid cleans a room of the icehotel Lumen in Zwolle, the Netherlands, Dec.15, 2011. The recently new-opened hotel is the first ice hotel in the Netherlands which has three rooms in total, and the inside temperature keeps minus four degree Celsius. It will receive guests only for two months,…

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[1000th Wednesday] Danyang High School Girls

Danyang High School girls at the rally. Danyang is a part of Chungcheongbuk-do, approximately three hours away from Seoul. They had to depart as early as 7am to attend the historic occasion. <Photograph: Kris Min>

People

Park Tae-joon, Father of Steel Dies at 84

Park Tae-joon, the creator of Posco, one of the world’s largest steel companies that helped to lay the foundations for South Korea’s rise from a devastated postwar society into an industrial powerhouse, died on Tuesday in Seoul at the age of 84. According to Lee Sung-man, a spokesman for…

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[1000th Wednesday] Han Myeong-sook

Former Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook at the rally saying, “Let us solve this problem while the old ladies are alive.” <Photograph: Kris Min>

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[1000th Wednesday] Chung Bong-ju

Chung Bong-ju, a former MP who gained the increasing popularity with the radio talk show “Naneun Ggomsuda” which can be translated as “I’m a man of tricks” attended the rally. <Photograph: Kris Min>

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[1000th Wednesday] Lee Jung-hee

Lee Jung-hee, the leader of the United Progressive Party delivering her speech at the rally. <Photograph: Kris Min>

East Asia

Every Wednesday They Have Cried Out

Another “Wednesday Demonstration” was held on 14th in front of the Embassy of Japan in Seoul. The former sex slaves, euphemistically called “comfort women” have held a “Wednesday Demonstration” every week since January 1992 and today, 1000th demonstration was staged. Those elderly Korean women have called upon Japan to…