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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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Politics
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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Politics
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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South Asia
Fortune Whaleshark Left
A boy lies on a dead whale shark in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Feb. 9, 2012. The 40-foot whale shark was found dead at a coastal area of Karachi in the Arabian Sea. <Photo: Xinhua/Toheed> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
China CPI Increase 4.5%
Citizens buy vegetable at a supermarket in Chongqing, southwest China, Jan. 27, 2012. China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 4.5 percent year-on-year in January, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Feb. 9, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Li Jian> news@theasian.asia
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World
Palestine Zoo Exhibits Mummified Animals
A Palestinian worker mummifies a dead tiger at a zoo in the Southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Feb. 9, 2012. Instead of purchasing live animals, the zoo mummifies the dead animals and put them into cages for display due to the fund shortage. <Photo: Xinhua/Khaled Omar> news@theasian.asia
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Politics
Harsh rhetoric against China’s veto of Syria resolution is misleading
Some Western countries have been inveighing against Russia and China for their Saturday veto of a draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria. The ostensible focus of their outcry is that China, by siding with the Syrian government to support its own national interests, has derailed global efforts to end…
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